{"id":18113,"date":"2021-05-06T07:18:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18113"},"modified":"2021-05-06T07:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:18:51","slug":"telemedicine-is-a-tool-not-a-replacement-for-your-doctors-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18113","title":{"rendered":"Telemedicine Is a Tool \u2014 Not a Replacement for Your Doctor\u2019s Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the pandemic it was vital to see doctors over platforms like Zoom or FaceTime when in-person appointments posed risks of coronavirus exposure. Insurers were forced \u2014 often for the first time \u2014 to reimburse for all sorts of virtual medical visits and generally at the same price as in-person consultations.<\/p>\n<p>By April 2020, one national study found, telemedicine visits already accounted for 13% of all medical claims compared with 0.15% a year earlier. And covid hadn\u2019t seriously hit much of the country yet. By May, Johns Hopkins\u2019 neurology department was conducting 95% of patient visits virtually compared with just 10 such visits weekly the year before, for example.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/telemedicine-is-a-tool-not-a-replacement-for-your-doctors-touch\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News) Earlier in the pandemic it was vital to see doctors over platforms like Zoom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18114,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113\/revisions\/18114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}