Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
Legal Fears Keep Doctors From E-mailing Patients
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Fewer than 4 percent of physicians communicate via e-mail with their patients, according to a study that eWeek says will be published in the Journal of Internal Medicine-s November issue. Approximately 30 percent of doctors e-mail with other clinicians, and 40 percent use online -use real-time computerized decision support, including government and professional society Web sites and searchable databases,- eWeek reports.
Physicians say that they generally don't receive payment for e-mail communications with patients because the communication is outside the patient visit, eWeek says. -Doctors worry that the contents of their e-mails, whether to patients or fellow clinicians, could be used against them in legal cases.-
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