Lansing, MI – The Michigan State Senate has approved outgoing State Representative Bronna Kahle’s bipartisan plan to address the state’s shortage of mental health workers and patients’ need for increased access to telepsychology by entering Michigan into the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
An interstate compact is a contract between two or more states that establishes a legal relationship among them to address common problems. The Compact was developed in 2015 to increase patient access to behavioral health care by allowing licensed psychologists to practice tele-psychology and temporary in-person services across state lines.
Michigan psychologists must currently be licensed in each state to offer telepsychology services to patients in other states, but Kahle’s plan would change that by entering the state into the compact.
Currently, 27 states have enacted legislation to join the Compact. Kahle’s Bill now moves to be considered by Governor Whitmer for state law.
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