telepsych questions

Specialties NP

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I have a few questions:

1) What do you think of telepsych?

2) What should one expect for reimbursment? Revenue split? Hourly (what rate)?

3) What should one look for/expect from the telepsych company?

4) What do you feel have been the positives of delivering psych care through a monitor for you? Negatives?

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Specializes in Outpatient Psychiatry.

Bill it like any other visit. I'm the only clinician in our company that doesn't do tele. I have a large enough base to not need to. I have a computer set up for it with a giant HD monitor and Bose speakers. Great for movie streaming incidentally

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I don't know that I'd be billing as I'd be working for a company that would take care of the billing.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
I don't know that I'd be billing as I'd be working for a company that would take care of the billing.

I think he means charge whatever rate you normally charge whether its telepsych or in person assessments at least that is the advice I'd offer.

I believe it absolutely will continue to grow although I think it is a fairly lame substitution for face to face care. Try doing an AIMS. What about the way a person smells? Are their clothes stained? Their subtle eye movements? What are they mumbling? And the obvious, great idea Sherlock to ask a paranoid psychotic patient to actually talk to the television. :sarcastic:

I'll do it when I have to mostly covering for other providers at two of my places of employment. At one place its needed at the other imo they are enamored with having the ability to say they can do it and are trying to shave a few bucks off staffing at a slower location.

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