Ridiculous Study of the Week: Telemedicine
Brilliance in action. A new study showed that “Low Use of Telehealth Tied to Flawed Payment Models”. In other words, if you don’t pay a doctor for a particular task then he or she won’t do that task. Crazy, right? There seems to be some consistent pattern here. Now what could that be? Hmmm.
I am sure glad they did that study, though. We would never have figured this out without it.
Here in FL it is state law that any carrier who sells insurance in the state must compensate telemedicine appointments the same or more then they do for in person visits.
NOT a bad deal IF we could get our heads out of our sixes and start to embrace the value of telemedicine
Personally I think every PCP or the like should have atleast 50% of his/her schedule on TM visits. Why not sit at a a computer in your home den and work in comfort in a T-shirt then in the nonsensical office with a shirt and tie. Now I get it that we still have LOTS we can’t do and need in person but if money was the same and the majority of patients were follow up and med changes and the like why not do them on video and E-scribe.
Dr D