{"id":19238,"date":"2021-12-08T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T12:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19238"},"modified":"2021-12-08T07:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T12:41:50","slug":"post-pandemic-whats-a-phone-call-from-your-physician-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19238","title":{"rendered":"Post-Pandemic, What\u2019s a Phone Call From Your Physician Worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe this has happened to you recently: Your doctor telephoned to check in with you, chatting for 11 to 20 minutes, perhaps answering a question you contacted her office with, or asking how you\u2019re responding to a medication change.<a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For that, your doctor got paid about $27 if you are on Medicare \u2014 maybe a bit more if you have private insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind those calls is a four-digit \u201cvirtual check-in\u201d billing code created during the pandemic, for phone conversations lasting just within that range, which has drawn outsize interest from physician groups.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/post-pandemic-billing-codes-physician-telehealth-virtual-checkup\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/post-pandemic-billing-codes-physician-telehealth-virtual-checkup\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, 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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><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 Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) Maybe this has happened to you recently: Your doctor telephoned to check in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,52,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-pandemic","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19238","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=19238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19239,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19238\/revisions\/19239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}