Online Patient Care Benefits
Your insurance company will reimburse you or your doctor for online consultation, if you
are an established patient, parent or guardian and the visit does not originate from services
provided within the previous 7 days. (check with your doctor on how to file a claim with your
insurance company)
** Online Vital Sign Medical Device is sold separately for $399
Online Patient Care
Online Patient Care is a consumer-driven phenomenon that is transforming the delivery of healthcare
for patients and doctors. Research shows that patients want to consult with their doctor using the
same tools they use to communicate with family and friends.
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Aetna, Cigna and other insurers have started to reimburse
physicians for online consultations under the CPT code 99444.
Patients have to be registered patients with their Doctors
to seek Online Patient care and Doctors have to be members of DrisOnline.com to provide
Online Patient Care. DrisOnline.com’s Online-Patient-Portal allows patients to
receive patient care online, in which Patient fills out a questionnaire describing their symptoms, video
records a message regarding their condition, upload vital sign information and sends it to the doctor in
the form of an alert, which then gets embedded into the patients Electronic Medical Record as an acknowledgement.
The doctor reviews the video message, studies the symptom questionnaire, and looks up the patients personal
health record online before deciding on whether or not to text the patient, video message the patient online
or schedule the patient for an office visit. If the doctor decides to consult online and clicks on the message
button, patients EMR will automatically open and the doctor will now have before him: (a) patients personal
health record, which contains patients personal, family, social and clinical history, (b) reasons for needing
an online consultation, (c) symptom questionnaire, providing in detail the condition of the patient, (d) a
personal video message discussing their symptoms , and (e) vital sign clinical data – all in a matter of
seconds. This Online-Patient-Portal resides in your doctor’s website.
It is accessible to all, at all times and benefits all stakeholders: patients, payers, employers, doctors
and government.
Patient’s benefits:
Sharing of clinical information by healthcare providers improves medical
decision-making, reduces medical errors, increases the quality of care, and reduces the cost of care by
eliminating redundant testing, which in the long-run results in lower premiums. Moreover, studies have found
that patients with strong patient-physician relationship, which revolves around the productive and efficient
exchange of information “live well” even with their chronic condition.
Payer’s and Employer’s benefits:
Today’s rising cost of health insurance is directly attributable to the
loss in productivity, medical errors and unnecessary and repetitive diagnostic testing. Thus, as the cost
and safety of the patient improves, the overall quality of life of patients will improve, thereby making
it easier for employers to negotiate lower rates with their insurance carriers, and pass those savings in
lower premiums for their employees.
Doctors benefits:
It is the next generation solution for doctors to enhance patient revenues,
reduce operating costs, and improve the quality of patient care by extending their practice beyond eight hours
a day, five days/week - through the Internet. Doctors will get reimbursed when “evaluating and managing patient
encounters” with an established patient via a secure communication network. All of which keeps the doctors from
making medical errors, gives them a faster patient throughput, helps them sort patients during a drug recall,
and improves the healthcare of a patient, who are more inclined to ask for help than self-medicate. More importantly,
it improves physician-patient relationship.
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