Teladoc Purchases Best Doctors Assuring Large Telemedicine Footprint
- By Brad Ericson
- In Industry News
- June 21, 2017
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Telehealth company Teladoc purchased the giant physician consulting firm Best Doctors for $440 million, adding the company’s network of 50,000 specialists to its stable of 3,100 providers. Teladoc already provides 20 million members access to healthcare via the Internet. It also provides services to businesses as part of their benefit packages.
Best Doctors provides patients, providers, and others with a global network of consultants on cases. The firm also dives into data based on medical issues addressed. The purchase expands Teladoc globally, the company said, and will bolster its expansion beyond its 140 hospital clientele and into markets such behavioral health and dermatology.
Brad Ericson
Publisher at AAPC
Brad Ericson, MPC, CPC, COSC, 2017 AAPC MACRA Proficient,has been publisher for more than nine years. Before AAPC he was at Optum for 13 years and Aetna Health Plans prior to that. He has been writing and publishing about healthcare since 1979. He received his Bachelor's in Journalism from Idaho State University and his Master's of Professional Communication degree from Westminster College of Salt Lake City.
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