Samuel R. Wittman

May 28, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Kristin N. Ray |Samuel R. Wittman |Ateev Mehrotra

Moving eConsults Into Mainstream Pediatric Care In January 2023, for the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) formally allowed Medicaid plans to make fee-for-service payments for electronic consultations (eConsults).1 eConsults are an asynchronous (or store-and-forward) clinician-to-clinician model of telehealth in which a requesting physician sends patient-specific text, photos, and/or audio files to a consulting physician, who then provides recommendations back...