It’s evident that there is still a challenge with access to mental health support. There’s a provider shortage, and the available providers’ time slots fill up quickly. But more than that, receiving quality mental health care is also difficult. Payers collect a lot of data on patient care, but it’s not always obvious how good that care was.

This is according to Dr. Taft Parsons, chief psychiatric officer of CVS Health , during an interview at the recent Behavioral Health Tech conference in San Diego. He argued that in order to improve the quality of care in behavioral health, there needs to be better guidelines for what good actually looks like.

And this may require some action from lawmakers.

“I personally think that the way to really get to consensus broadly is something that take

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