Wednesday, October 14, 2020

On the Record 10 14 2020

"You want to incentivize timely, appropriate care — and I think all these plans want to do that, and what they're missing is that by eliminating the availability of this modality of care, they are essentially incentivizing a higher risk modality."

— Shawn Martin, CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians, talked with AIS's Health Plan Weekly about why payers might want to rethink reinstituting cost-sharing for telehealth visits as the COVID-19 pandemic continues and flu season ramps up.

 

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