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PSYPACT grows; Kansas officials report rising telepractice use and compact data collection needs
Summary
BSRB staff reported PSYPACT now includes roughly 42–43 states with 14,632 telehealth authorizations and growing TAP use; Kansas numbers show modest turnover of home‑state licenses and an increase in out‑of‑state psychologists providing services under compact authority, prompting discussion about data collection and workforce metrics.
WICHITA (remote) — Executive Director David Fye updated the advisory committee on PSYPACT, the interstate compact for telepsychology.
Fye said the compact has expanded from a dozen or so states in 2019 to about 42–43 states now. He provided operational figures reported at the PSYPACT meeting: 14,632 individuals hold compact telehealth authorizations (APIT holders), roughly 872 temporary in‑person practice (TAP) authorizations were active, and 9,805 renewals of PSYPACT privileges occurred during the last year.
Fye also presented Kansas‑specific data: at the last renewal cycle about 120 psychologists did not renew a Kansas license and of those about 20 remained listed in the PSYPACT portal as providing services under compact authority; quarterly data indicate about 40 additional psychologists per quarter are providing services into Kansas, totaling roughly 150–160 over the year. Fye said collectors should improve data collection to better measure how much service those providers deliver across state lines.
Committee members welcomed the compact’s expansion and raised staffing and financial questions about continuing assessments of compact fees and whether Kansas should continue certain assessments if PSYPACT assessment policies change. Fye said PSYPACT appears financially sound but that a longer review of assessment fees was underway.
