Effects of giving psychologists prescriptive authority: Evidence from a natural experiment in the United States

Agnitra Roy Choudhury and Alicia Plemmons

Health Policy, 2023, vol. 134, issue C

Abstract: Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S. Six states have granted psychologists prescriptive authority to address shortages in the provision of behavioral and mental health care services to increase provider access to pharmacological interventions using psychotropic medications.

Keywords: Occupational regulation; Psychologists; Scope of practice; RxP movement; Prescriptive authority; Suicide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104846

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