MedCity News September 9, 2021
Given the growing interest specialty providers are showing in virtual visits, health plans should ensure that their telehealth offerings include consumer access to a wide breadth of specialists.
If there’s a silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s the spotlight it has put on the role of value-based, virtual health care models to address issues such as access to specialists, healthcare speed and efficiency, and healthcare inequities.
Indeed, approximately 75 percent of employers in a recent survey said they plan to ramp up their implementation of value-based care models over the next three years, with many indicating they are exploring virtual care partnerships to, among other goals:
- Match members with experts best suited to their medical needs—and not just...