Getting Paid for Telemedicine


In case you’re like me and missed the slow rolling out of reimbursement for telemedicine, it looks like it’s slowly becoming a reality. 22 state mandated reimbursement of telemedicine is a really big deal. Makes you wonder if a federal law will be far away.

The biggest complaint I’ve heard over and over from doctors about telemedicine is that they don’t get paid to do it. Sure, every once in a while some will say that they’re not sure how well they can treat a patient over video (which is true in a number of cases), but the majority of the physicians I talk to would have no issue using telemedicine if they could just get paid for doing the work.

In fact, I think it’s some pretty genius marketing of Chiron Health (who created the tweet above) for mentioning in their Twitter profile that they’re a telemedicine provider and they want doctors to get paid for it. That’s a message the resonates with many doctors.

In fact, I think Chiron Health’s website hits the key areas where I’ve seen telemedicine taking off: Follow-Up, Chronic Patients and Behavioral Health. This image from their website describes well where I see Telemedicine working well:
Telemedicine Options

I’ll admit that I didn’t know anything about Chiron Health until today (Looks like they’re hiring which is a good sign for a company). However, I’m impressed by the way they’re approaching the telemedicine market. I’d love to learn more about the ways they help doctors get paid for telemedicine. Although, I’m certain that list is about to grow in a really amazing way. I have no doubt that telemedicine will be an important part of the future of healthcare.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

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