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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP298: The Intersection of Value-Based Payments and Behavioral Health—Also, the Rise of Telepsychiatry, With Don Fowls, MD
Description: I was really vexed the other day when I read on Twitter—First rule of thumb: Stay away from Twitter—but I read on Twitter someone bashing telehealth because, for many older Americans, going to the doctor is the only thing on their social calendar. Ummm, OK. So, we celebrate the idea of paying a cardiologist or a nephrologist or an orthopedic surgeon or some other specialist how much in FFS (fee-for-service) payments to be a paid friend for 7 minutes? So, we're going to expect these expensive specialists to provide mental and behavioral health support when they have...