Doctors are cool with telehealth. As long as they can still get paid.
A new report commissioned by Anthem Inc. and the American Academy of Family Physicians finds that nearly 90 percent of U.S. physicians would use telehealth as long as they are compensated for video consultations and the many other new tech-enabled means of doctor-patient interaction aimed at making health care more efficient and accessible in the coming years.
The lack of established payment systems for telehealth, however, is a major barrier to its acceptance by medical professionals, the report says.
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