Access TeleCare Appoints Dr. Michael Genovese as Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral Health

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Nation’s largest acute specialty telemedicine provider continues momentum into its third decade in operation

Access TeleCare, the largest national provider of acute specialty telemedicine for health systems nationwide, announced today the appointment of Dr. Michael Genovese to Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral Health. The hire supports the physician-led company’s vision that high-quality specialty care can be delivered at scale through technology, positions the company for continued expansion and category leadership and enables expanded access to critical behavioral healthcare services across the U.S.

The announcement comes on the heels of an incredible year of growth for Access TeleCare. In 2024, the company’s 20th year in operation, it announced a new partnership with UT Southwestern as well as impressive results from its work with several hospitals and health systems. It also detailed the deepening of its bench of physician-executives. The company hired over 215 clinicians in 2024 to meet the dynamic needs of its growing roster of health system clients and performed over 300 implementations of telemedicine programs.

“We are committed to delivering timely, high-quality specialty care close to a patient’s home,” said Chris Gallagher, M.D., CEO of Access TeleCare. “The need for access to services for patients suffering from behavioral health issues continues to grow, and no one understands this need more intimately than Dr. Genovese, who has 20 years of clinical leadership and helmed one of the nation’s leading providers of behavioral health care. He will play a critically-important role in helping Access TeleCare continue to provide access to high-quality behavioral health care to the greatest number of patients possible.”

Prior to joining Access TeleCare, Dr. Genovese held the same title at a large, publicly-traded behavioral healthcare services company, overseeing the organization’s network of more than 500 behavioral health facilities across 39 states. In his new role, Dr. Genovese will lead the company’s Behavioral Health division in addressing the nation’s growing mental health needs and spearhead the company’s deployments of virtual behavioral health in hospitals and health systems, the largest in the U.S.

“The statistics on the current and future need for behavioral health care are staggering, and Access TeleCare has proven its ability to increase access and deploy telemedicine solutions that improve patient outcomes and the bottom lines of their hospital and health system partners,” said Michael Genovese, M.D., J.D., Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral Health at Access TeleCare. “Access TeleCare is a pioneer in its space, and after closely following its growth and success for many years, I’m fortunate to be a key member of such a forward-thinking and visionary organization.”

Access TeleCare partners with 19 of the 25 largest health systems in the country, has conducted more than 7 million patient encounters and provides care that is accessible to 65% of Americans. It has eight service lines and provides comprehensive virtual behavioral health across the care continuum, including in the following settings:

  • Behavioral health hospitals
  • Inpatient behavioral health units in acute care hospitals
  • Emergency departments
  • Medical-surgical and intensive care units
  • Outpatient clinics and programs
  • Health plans

About Access TeleCare

Access TeleCare is the standard bearer of clinical excellence in acute specialty telemedicine, providing high-quality care for patients in 1 out of 5 U.S. hospitals. Over the last 20 years, the company has delivered care in more than 7 million patient encounters across multiple specialty service lines, including behavioral health, neurology, hospitalist medicine, pulmonary and critical care, maternal-fetal medicine, infectious disease, cardiology, and nephrology. The virtual care provided by Access TeleCare is crucial in ensuring timely and high-quality healthcare coverage across a virtual catchment area of more than 65% of the U.S. population, representing a total population of over 216 million Americans, many of whom live in medically underserved or vulnerable areas. As the first and longest-standing telemedicine organization to receive The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval in 2006, Access TeleCare is leading the way to a better healthcare delivery system with clinically excellent tech-enabled services. Learn more at AccessTeleCare.com.

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