Long on offering telehealth and one million virtual visits
Long says he offers every patient the choice of in-person or telehealth visits and that one or two patients per clinic prefer to follow up from work. He notes H&H completed about a million telehealth visits coming out of COVID.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, on that one, I can give you a much more clear answer.
So, I mean, I live this every week in clinic.
So whenever my patients are being brought back to the clinic, I offer them, do you want to see me in person?
Or I literally say exactly what you just said.
I know you've worked.
I know what your job is.
Do you want to just talk by phone or talk on your phone?
And, yeah, I'd say probably every clinic, one or two of my patients would prefer to follow up from work.
I can see their work in the background and to have a telehealth visit with me.
It used to be more, especially as Chair Narcisse was saying, coming out of COVID, we completed about a million telehealth visits.
So we actually, the jury was out a little bit about how people were going to prefer to get care.
And it's turned out to be, we can pull the exact statistics.