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Economic Grand Rounds
Published Online: 7 September 2023

Distribution of CARES Act Provider Relief Funding to Psychiatric Care Organizations

Abstract

More than $100 billion in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding was intended to support financially stressed health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The distribution of the CARES Act’s Provider Relief Fund among psychiatrists is poorly understood. Analyzing funding received by 2,593 psychiatric care organizations (PCOs), the authors found that funding was more equally distributed across care organizations of different sizes in psychiatry versus other specialties. Substantially less relief funding was received by PCOs per provider relative to other specialties. This disparity in relief funding is surprising given that specific earmarks of the CARES Act were intended to improve U.S. mental health care capacity, meriting further attention.

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Pages: 194 - 197
PubMed: 37674396

History

Received: 28 January 2023
Revision received: 15 June 2023
Accepted: 16 June 2023
Published online: 7 September 2023
Published in print: February 01, 2024

Keywords

  1. Economics
  2. Public policy issues
  3. Service delivery systems
  4. COVID-19
  5. Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act

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John L. Havlik, B.S. [email protected]
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (Havlik, Tsai); Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago (Wahid, Ososanya, Tang, Lee); School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston (Tsai).
Syed Wahid
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (Havlik, Tsai); Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago (Wahid, Ososanya, Tang, Lee); School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston (Tsai).
Lydia Ososanya, B.A.
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (Havlik, Tsai); Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago (Wahid, Ososanya, Tang, Lee); School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston (Tsai).
Deanna Tang, B.A.
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (Havlik, Tsai); Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago (Wahid, Ososanya, Tang, Lee); School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston (Tsai).
Megan S. Lee, B.S.
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (Havlik, Tsai); Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago (Wahid, Ososanya, Tang, Lee); School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston (Tsai).
Jack Tsai, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (Havlik, Tsai); Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago (Wahid, Ososanya, Tang, Lee); School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston (Tsai).

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Send correspondence to Mr. Havlik ([email protected]).

Competing Interests

The authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

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The views in this column represent the opinions of the authors and not necessarily those of Yale University School of Medicine, the University of Chicago, or the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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