Each year slightly less than four million babies are born in the U.S. 1 in 54, or almost 75,000, will develop autism. At any given time, there are approximately 370,000 of these children in the critical “early intervention” window of birth to age five when treatment is more likely to...
High Demand and Acute Provider Shortages
The pediatric behavioral and mental healthcare market is characterized by high demand and acute shortage. More than 74 million Americans is an adolescent or child younger than 18 years. Of these, nearly 17 million have or had a diagnosable psychiatric disorder – more than the number of children with cancer,...
Reimbursement Progress
Until recently state and federal barriers have served as hindrances to adoption of telemedicine, particularly a patchwork of licensure and reimbursement laws, especially across state lines. Yet, in response to the coronavirus outbreak the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and commercial insurers sweepingly approved the use of...