EYE ON HEALTHCARE 6 Examples Of Physician Response

EYE ON HEALTHCARE 6 Examples Of Physician Response To Covid-19 At Practice Level March 26, 2020 Michael Aronow, MD, President, Connecticut Orthopaedic Society: – “Made contingency plans to avoid having all foot specialists covering the hospital at the same time, or all the spine. Divide them up if one is infected” – “Trying to restrict office visits to people with wound issues, cast changes, acute fracture or x-ray…learning telemed [on fly]…our office is now 9 a-3 p“ – “On the practice side, this is hitting us hard since most of income is elective. Trying to do as much as we can, putting off anything that can wait. A big group in Springfield just laid off half its staff…state trying to help” Satish K. Garg, MD, Professor of Medicine/Pediatrics, Univ. of Colorado: – “Definitely increasing concern, however we are trying to reassure them that if their glucose control is ok, there may not be higher risk unless above 65” – “We are scheduling most of our patients through teleh using Zoom” – “Except new-onset patients like the 3 we had last week for day 1 education, all other visits are scheduled for now through tele-health” Robert Silver, MD, New Hampshire, Affiliated with S. New Hampshire Medical: – “Some patients asking about higher risk of infection, asking whether they should stay home from work even if employer says necessary. ” – “We adopted tele within 48 -hours of COVID after several years debating” – “Scheduling tele thru Doxy. me; no in-person visits in our practice”

Physician Response To Covid-19 Physician Response: Chris Chase, MD, Weight Treatment Center at Jefferson City Medical Group: – “Many patients emailing” – “No telehealth yet, just email and phone call. ” – “Our in-person visits are down by 80%. Patients are being rescheduled” Neil Cohen, MD, Staten Island NY, Staten Island University Hospital: – “There is of course generalized anxiety, but nothing acutely pathological. ” – “We do tele with doxy. me since visits down about 30% from normal” – “We’ve seen less revenue. Had to condense schedules to a 4 -day week. ” Junping Yang, MD, Saint Joseph, MO: – “My diabetes patients requesting a statement of needing to be off work due to higher risk…[even if employers are saying they need to be there”[ – “Our visits are down about 25% fewer. Managed Care Friday Forum – 2 pm EST – Today (Friday March 27) – Pre-registration required: click here (participants will be provided a PIN) – Dial-In: 866 -506 -5305; ID (enter after dialing): 87861083 – Panelists: – Michael Aronow, MD, President, Connecticut Orthopaedic Society – Wendy Abraham, American Postal Workers Union Health Plan – Barry Lachman, MD, Parkland Community Health Plan – Bryan Cote, Berkeley Research Group – April 3 rd Edition: Behavioral Health

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