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Excerpt from Dermatology World – April 2015:
While 90 percent of respondents reported that their organizations have already begun developing or implementing a telemedicine program, 41 percent said their organizations do not receive any reimbursement for these services. Twenty percent of executives reported receiving lower rates from managed care companies for telemedicine than in-person visits. Medicare’s thin coverage practices for telemedicine were the biggest reimbursement concern for 21 percent of respondents while 18 percent said they were most uneasy about state laws failing to mandate that commercial companies pay for such services.
That is the same message Brenda Dintiman, MD, a dermatologist from Fairfax, Virginia who testified as a small practitioner on behalf of the AAD, delivered before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology.