Doctors are cool with telehealth. As long as they can stillget paid.
A new report commissioned by Anthem Inc. and the AmericanAcademy of Family Physicians finds that nearly 90 percent of U.S.physicians would use telehealth as long as they are compensated forvideo consultations and the many other new tech-enabled means ofdoctor-patient interaction aimed at making health care moreefficient and accessible in the comingyears.
The lack of established payment systems for telehealth, however,is a major barrier to its acceptance by medical professionals, thereport says.
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