Visiting a specialist is expensive. And not visiting the specialist can be catastrophic for the patient. eConsults deliver patient cost savings. The patient saves at least $120 per avoided referral. $40 per visit over the 3 visits typically needed to receive a diagnosis and treatment.
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Measuring Practice Success and Patient Care: eConsult Patient Benefits
eConsult patient benefits include patients save money with fewer copays, less travel expenses and reduced time off work; patient satisfaction improves when diagnosis and treatment are delivered quickly; equal access to specialty care increases because social and geographic challenges related to care are reduced; and outcomes also improve when patients receive treatment fast, avoid expensive emergency care, and experience better care continuity.
Measuring Practice Success and Patient Care: 20% of eConsults Report a New Diagnosis
After launching an eConsult program, referral trends should decline and stabilize once eConsults are being used regularly by your providers. Earlier, we reviewed a chart that showed a peak in eConsult usage. This peak is the ideal time to educate providers about additional specialties that eConsult can support. My team can provide sample use cases and common conditions during this period to improve cost savings and reduce the burden to patients that come with visiting a specialist in-person.
Measuring Practice Success and Patient Care: Review Referral Trends After Launching eConsults
After launching an eConsult program, referral trends should decline and stabilize once eConsults are being used regularly by your providers. Earlier, we reviewed a chart that showed a peak in eConsult usage. This peak is the ideal time to educate providers about additional specialties that eConsult can support. My team can provide sample use cases and common conditions during this period to improve cost savings and reduce the burden to patients that come with visiting a specialist in-person.
Measuring Practice Success and Patient Care: Track Emergency Room Visits
$8.3 billion is spent annually on emergency department visits that could be provided in another location. The Health Care Cost Institute estimates the average cost of an ED visit at $1,917. Avoidable visits are frequently related to chronic conditions, particularly behavioral health, diabetes, and hypertension. They are also caused by the escalation of symptoms while patients wait for a specialist appointment. Symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, abdominal pain.
Measuring Practice Success and Patient Care: Monitoring Hospitalization and Readmissions Trends
Control costs by monitoring hospitalization and readmission trends. eConsults can help prevent hospitalization and readmission by allowing PCPs to build more robust preventive care plans; address nuances related to chronic conditions; and identify patients at risk for readmission and prioritize interventions. The average hospital stay cost is $11,7001 – the most expensive type of care utilization. Preventing even one hospital stay delivers significant shared savings.
Measuring Practice Success and Patient Care: Measuring eConsult Clinical Quality
Studies show that improved access and preventative care decreases disease and mortality. By addressing health problems before they require emergency intervention, both patients and the health system save money and see better outcomes. How do you know the advice you receive from eConsults is working to prevent disease escalation? Learn how to measure eConsult clinical quality.
What Types of Conditions Do You See in Your eConsult Requests?
In this video, Dr. Coggshall, a Dermatologist, discusses how a specialist can benefit a physician and their patient through simple eConsult requests.
AristaMD and Sitka Form Single Company, Secure Series C of $16.5M for the Expansion of Specialty Care Access via Electronic and Video Consultation Services
SAN DIEGO – Nov. 14, 2023 – AristaMD, a digital healthcare company specializing in eConsults and referral management services, today announced it has joined forces with Sitka, a video-consult specialist network supporting value-based care providers, and the close of its latest financing to help expand cost-effective and timely specialty care.
Evaluate Practice Performance Metrics for eConsult Programs: Measuring Provider Adoption
Practice performance metrics are in focus whenever a new tool is introduced to improve patient care. In this series, we’ll focus on practice success and patient care when adopting or maintaining an eConsult program. Many of these strategies apply to increasing the adoption of any new technology or program.