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E-consult is a web-enabled system and process, where primary care clinicians and specialists are able to communicate, share clinical information and consult electronically to manage patient care. [2] It reduces the specialty referral and appointment process to just a few days, which increases the speed delivery for patient care services.
Stark Law is a set of United States federal laws that prohibit physician self-referral, specifically a referral by a physician of a Medicare or Medicaid patient to an entity for the provision of designated health services ("DHS") if the physician (or an immediate family member) has a financial relationship with that entity.
Open Referral in private medical insurance refers to the practice of a General Practitioner referring patients to any consultant with a particular speciality for treatment rather than explicitly naming a specific consultant. The insurance company will then choose a consultant that has the speciality specified from an approved list that they ...
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There is a large volume research indicating that self-referral has a major effect on increasing medical costs in the US. David Levin estimated the cost of unnecessary self-referred imaging in 2004 to be, conservatively, $16 billion per year. [3] There are several examples showing that self-referral increases utilization and costs:
Denmark was the second country to introduce an electronic referral system. This was done so through a nationwide MedCom project implemented in 1995 entitled The Danish Health Care Data Network . This TeleMed project aimed to expand the electronic communication between health service parties, and e-referrals were a part of this. [ 16 ]