RE:Telehealth generates $3000 US per Patient Thank you for that post 2j3kl. Great find!
This statment is of particular interest:
“The study found that for each episode of acute respiratory infection, the cost of telehealth services were about 50 percent lower than a physician office visit and less than 5 percent the cost of a visit to an emergency department,” the RAND researchers said. “However, the savings from substitution was outweighed by increased spending on the new use of medical services. The study estimates that net annual spending on acute respiratory illness increased by $45 per telehealth user.”
They authors are speaking to overall savings to the American health care system. PHM (and as a corollary VMD) will be the provider that is both benefiting from the ecomonics of telelhealth to improve margins, and also be the one to further supply the extra $45 increase in annual spending per telehealth user on new medical services.. A double win so to speak.
Excellent research 2j