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Telepsychiatry coming into its own with COVID‐19
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30487
Subject(s) - telepsychiatry , telemedicine , covid-19 , phone , internet privacy , cover (algebra) , teleradiology , telecommunications , psychology , medicine , political science , computer science , health care , law , engineering , virology , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Among the other benefits of the CARES Act — the $2 trillion law signed by President Trump March 27 —is a big boost to telemedicine, including telepsychiatry. For so many years, psychiatrists have been hampered by the fact that, in general, they can't get paid for telemedicine. Insurance won't cover it, and, for the most part, patients assume that a phone call — or an email or text — should be free.