Born Inc. (BRRN)

[gauvdog]

Yes. Saw the article but nowhere is Quture mentioned.

More importantly, CMS does not support telemed. In case you don't know this, CMS stands for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. What does that have to do with anything?

Insurance companies follow CMS regulation very closely. Since CMS won't pay for telemed, historically insurance companies will follow suit.

Personally, I think telemed is a great thing! There's lots of uses for doctors in live conferencing during surgery and other procedures. Psychotherapies have been very successful in using telemed in counseling patients. A variety of therapies such as speech therapy and others have been widely successful using telemed processes. But CMS does NOT regard it as a pay-for-service treatment.

Hospitals and other agencies have to pay for the use of such technologies and have to pass the cost on to the consumer. If insurance companies won't pay for it, it is unlikely most patients will want the costs of such technology to be passed on to them. And the policy shifts written about in the article have not yet occurred and it is unlikely they will occur in the near future.

Hospitals are reluctant to have to absorb the costs and there lies the rub!