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Medicare may allow payment for virtual consults
CMS has proposed new regulations that, as of 2009, would allow physicians to bill Medicare for follow-up inpatient consultations, along with adding 56 new measures to the Physician Quality Reporting Read more...
Primary care group wants pay for online work
The American College of Physicians has taken a position that shouldn't be much of a surprise. It's suggesting that payers should reimburse physicians for added work needed to take part in new digital Read more...
Insurers keep getting on web visit bandwagon
A growing number of health plans have begun to pay for patients to participate in online visits with their doctor. In recent months Aetna and Cigna have started paying for some doctors' visits on Read more...
Trend: Health plans begin reimbursing for 'virtual visits'
It's been a long wait, but ever so slowly, health plans are beginning to pay doctors for 'virtual visits' with patients. Vendors like McKesson-owned RelayHealth, mainstay EMR vendor Epic Systems and Read more...
Study: MD emails could drain physician income
So, it's no surprise, but hey, numbers are worth something. New research from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research has concluded that when physicians and patients engage in email correspondence, patients are 7 percent to 10 percent less likely to see physicians for office visits. These patients also cut back on office phone calls by 14 percent. Kaiser didn't seem to draw any conclusions on …
Read more...Editor's Corner
I'm delighted to hear that doctors are taking e-care seriously (see below). Like most of you, I've been online for more than ten years, so my attitude is, "Hey, it's about time!"
However, if I were advising a smaller medical practice, I …
Read more...Physicians offer "e-care"
Of late, doctors are increasingly offering e-mail based care, seeing it as a logical extension of the patient phone calls they're already making. What's interesting is that insurance companies agree, and have begun to pay for "e-care," as such services are often called. In Minnesota, some insurers will pay for e-care if it offers a new diagnosis, prescription or treatment. Meanwhile, three Minnesota health systems--Fairview, Allina and HealthPartners--have begun offering the "MyCharts" …
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