HealthExec October 12, 2021
If telemedicine reimbursement returns to pre-pandemic levels, 4 in 10 primary care providers may lose the wherewithal to offer virtual patient visits.
What’s more, such a reversal could further demoralize a medical specialty that has arguably carried more than its own weight during the public health crisis while also bearing the brunt of COVID-19’s hit to the U.S. healthcare economy.
At least, that’s how some primary care thought leaders see it.
“With no cash infusion and without regard to future payment concerns, primary care tended to the health needs of the nation during the pandemic and continues to do so,” says Rebecca Etz, PhD, a professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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