Survey: Only 19% of providers get paid for telemedicine

While some consumers have expressed enthusiasm about telemedicine and private payers and CMS have displayed increasing interest in it, just 19 percent of healthcare practitioners said they have a system in place to get paid for telemedicine services, according to a recent survey. However, 33 percent of physicians surveyed are currently delivering services using telemedicine.

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The survey was conducted in October at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine conference in San Diego among 754 providers, 78 percent of whom were physicians. Further findings from the survey are listed below.

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