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Reimbursement Initiatives

RelayHealth offers consumers convenience and access by enabling direct communication with their doctor's office at any time, from any place. Results from an independent study show that both patients and physicians prefer a RelayHealth webVisit to an office visit for non-urgent needs, and RelayHealth effectively reduces healthcare costs while improving employee productivity.

RelayHealth is the only online healthcare communication service to conduct landmark reimbursement pilots with medical groups, health plans, and self-insured employers.

Providing health plan reimbursement and offering a medical plan benefit for webVisits is critical to the success of online healthcare in terms of encouraging consumer adoption.

Health plan reimbursement and employer communication support is a central component of webVisit success, e-prescribing and patient safety improvement, and improving the health care experience. To that end, RelayHealth is in discussion with other national and regional health plans that may offer the RelayHealth service as a reimbursed, medical benefit to their members in the future.

Learn more about the webVisit® Reimbursement Study.

News About Our Reimbursement Programs

11/22/2005 - Premera Blue Cross and Virginia Mason Medical Center Introduce Online-doctor-visit Pilot to Microsoft Employees

10/12/2005 - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City to Offer, Reimburse Secure RelayHealth Services

04/13/2005 - Fallon Community Health Plan To Reimburse Physicians For RelayHealth webVisits®

08/31/2004 - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Offers Coverage for Non-Urgent Care Delivered Online via RelayHealth® Service

05/11/2004 - Group Health Incorporated Signs Agreement To Introduce RelayHealth Service—Enabling Members To Communicate Securely Online With Their Own Physicians

04/06/2004 - BlueCross BlueShield Of Tennessee To Reimburse RelayHealth webVisits®

03/02/2004 - Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield In Colorado Launches RelayHealth Service With Physician Health Partners

10/29/2003 - Blue Shield Of California Expands Online Communication Services Through RelayHealth

03/06/2003 - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Signs Contract with RelayHealth To Reimburse Physicians for webVisits®

01/15/2003 - Final Results: webVisit® Study Finds RelayHealth Reduces Cost of Care While Satisfying Doctors And Patients

10/24/2002 – RelayHealth Results Are In: webVisit® A Win For Doctors, Patients And Payors

02/12/2002 – Stanford University, Stanford Medical Center, and Seagate Technology Join Pilot Testing RelayHealth Online Doctor-Patient Communication Service

05/09/2001 – Impact of Online Doctor-patient Communication to be Studied by University of California Berkeley Professors

05/08/2001 – Patient webVisit® Debuts; Connecticut Doctors Pilot Win-Win Technology

03/23/2001 – Leading Corporations -- Adobe, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco, NEC Electronics, Oracle -- Participate in Pilot Enabling Employees to Communicate with Their Physicians Online