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Compensation for e-mail – A New Payment Model for Doctors?
By Staff Writers
It’s been a long wait, but we have recently learned that – ever so slowly – some health plans are beginning to pay doctors for ‘virtual visits’ with patients.
Vendors like McKesson-owned RelayHealth, Epic Systems and Web portal vendor Medfusion have offered the technology for some time, but payer acceptance has been slow. However, a consensus is building that such visits may be a good idea, despite lingering questions over billing and the ability of physicians to legally offer e-care from out of their home state. These visits might save substantial amounts of money while keeping patients healthy–including a Kaiser study concluding that it saves $70 to $120 on each virtual visit.
- And so, are hospitals to follow this physician trend?
- How about CMS and the various state Medicaid systems?
- What about private insurance companies, HMOs and MCOs, etc?
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