ArticleJAMA network open2025
Race and Ethnicity and Diffusion of Telemedicine in Medicaid for Schizophrenia Care After Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Ethical Norms, Challenges, and Associated Factors in Telemental Health: Perspectives from Psychiatric and Psychological Professionals in China.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Importance: Delivery of mental health care through telehealth (telemental health care) increased after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is known about the speed of adoption (diffusion) of telemental health in the care in the care of individuals with schizophrenia. Objectives: To characterize telemental health care diffusion in mental health agencies serving Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia and the beneficiary-level association of telemental health care use with race and ethnicity. Design, Setting, and Participants: This retrospective cohort study used New York State Medicaid data from March 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020 (prepandemic period), and from March 11, 2020, to March 31, 2021 (pandemic period), from 261 agencies serving 30 990 beneficiaries with schizophrenia with 1 or more mental health visits during the pandemic period. Statistical analysis was performed from November 2021 through September 2024. Exposure: Agency percentage of patients belonging to racial and ethnic minority groups among all Medicaid-covered patients between March 2019 and February 2020; agency type, categorized as freestanding, hospital affiliated, or state operated; beneficiary-level race and ethnicity, categorized as Asian or other (American Indian or Alaska Native; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander), Black, Latinx, White, and unknown; and pandemic severity, operationalized as COVID-19 hospitalization rates per 10 000 population in administratively defined catchment areas. Main Outcomes and Measures: Days to 10% cumulative telemental health care use within agencies, as well as beneficiary-level time to first telemental health care visit and any telemental health care visit in catchment areas in times of varying pandemic severity. Results: In this cohort study of 261 agencies (18 [7%] state operated, 79 [30%] hospital affiliated, and 164 [63%] free standing) and 30 990 beneficiaries with schizophrenia (mean [SD] age, 43 [13] years; 59% male; 7% Asian or other, 38% Black, 20% Latinx, and 25% White), 6 agencies (2%) never adopted telemental health care, and 248 (95%) reached 10% cumulative telemental health care visits in a mean of 18 days. Mean (SD) agency prepandemic shares of beneficiaries belonging to racial or ethnic minority groups (56% [23%]) were not associated with telemental health care diffusion. Diffusion was faster in state-operated vs free-standing agencies (hazard ratio [HR], 2.44 [95% CI, 1.21-4.95]). Relative to White beneficiaries, time to first telemental health care visit was slower in every racial and ethnic minority group (Asian or other: HR, 0.93 [95% CI, 0.88-0.98]; Black: HR, 0.90 [95% CI, 0.87-0.93]; Latinx: HR, 0.95 [95% CI, 0.91-0.99]). Beneficiaries from at least 1 racial or ethnic minority group were less likely than White beneficiaries to have a telemental health care visit regardless of pandemic severity and area; differences narrowed when pandemic severity was higher (eg, in New York City, the odds ratio of Black beneficiaries having a telemental health care visit relative to White beneficiaries when the pandemic severity was high was 0.70 [95% CI, 0.63-0.79] but decreased to 0.59 [95% CI, 0.53-0.67] when the pandemic severity was low). Conclusions and Relevance: In this cohort study of Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia, telemental health care diffused rapidly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in state-operated agencies. Together, agency-level and beneficiary-level race and ethnicity findings suggest within-agency racial and ethnic differences in diffusion of telemental health care. States should monitor the diffusion of innovations across vulnerable populations.
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