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Author(s): Enos, Gary
Source:
Mental Health Weekly. 7/13/2020, Vol. 30 Issue 27, p1-7. 7p.

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- Subject Terms:
  RURAL health service laws; HEALTH services accessibility laws; TELEMEDICINE -- Law & legislation; MENTAL health service laws; ENDOWMENTS; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH services accessibility; INSURANCE; MEDICAL technology; MENTAL health services; RURAL health services; TELEMEDICINE; HEALTH insurance reimbursement; COVID-19
- Abstract:
  Residents of rural communities always have struggled to gain access to effective mental health services, and the COVID‐19 crisis has only added to the urgency of the problem. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is responding with proposed legislation that would establish a telemental health care demonstration program targeting three key industry groups prominent in rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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