The American Medical Association is playing catch up to the already explosive growth in telemedicine, according to physicians involved in the AMA's new work group tasked with cranking out billing codes for the technology-enabled encounters.
Telemedicine "is not going to be a replacement" for traditional, face-to-face physician-patient encounters, but will be "another avenue and another channel," for reaching patients, said Dr. Frank Dubeck, one of four co-chairpersons of the CPT Telehealth Services Workgroup, whose members met face-to-face for the first time last week in Philadelphia.
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