depressed elderly veterans, which was conducted by the Medical University of South Carolina and the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center and reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, found that home-based telemental health for depression is well received by patients and delivers as good a quality of life as in-person visits. 3. Mental health and substance use services delivered to rural underserved populations via telemental health care Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting after section 330K ( 42 U.S.C. 254c–16 ) the following: 330K–1. Mental health and substance use services delivered to rural underserved populations via telemental health care (a) Definitions In this section— (1) the term covered populations means— (A) health professional shortage areas (as defined in section 332(a)(1)) in rural areas