In 2017, Pear Therapeutics’s reSET digital app to treat patients with substance use disorder became the first FDA-approved PDT, which are software-based therapies to treat medical and behavioral conditions. Since then, the FDA has approved more than 40 DPTs, according to Brandon Aylward, Ph.D., director of digital health for RTI International, a nonprofit research institute.
Still, Medicare does not cover PDTs, while commercial payers and state Medicaid programs have been hesitant to pay for them,...
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