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Mental Health Care
Psychiatric mental health nurse
practitioners (PMHNPs) are nurse practitioners with additional education and certification related to mental health.
In a recent article, Arno Cai and coauthors report that the number of PMHNPs treating Medicare beneficiaries increased by 162 percent from 2011 to 2019, compared with a decrease of 6 percent for psychiatrists during the same period.
The authors find that the proportion of all mental health prescriber visits provided by PMHNPs increased from 12.5 percent to 29.8 percent during 2011–19, exceeding 50 percent in rural, full-scope-of-practice regions.
“The patterns we observed imply that PMHNPs are filling in the gap in outpatient demand left behind by a diminishing psychiatrist supply,” the authors conclude.
The authors suggest that these changes in care delivery could be driven in part by the fact that a majority of psychiatrists do not accept Medicare insurance.
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