Sep 15, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
In this repurposed episode of Telemedicine Talks, hosts Phoebe Gutierrez and Dr. Leo Damasco welcome Dr. Mark Chmiela, as he describes how COVID turned telemedicine into an essential lifeline…
Leo DamascoHost
Phoebe GutierrezHost
A lot of the stuff you were just talking about doesn't have to be face-to-face, right? Or not necessarily face-to-face, but in person, right? Because you can use video, so forth and so on.
And you mentioned also too, your payers were paying out, right? You were getting paid by your payers.
How did they figure the change out? Once COVID stopped and they're like, okay, we're not going to pay you for the service that you're probably doing so well.
What kind of reason did they give you if they gave you any to stop the payments? They didn't give us any specific
I can understand where there's potential for abuse, right? And like any system can be abused.
A lot of the stuff you were just talking about doesn't have to be face-to-face, right? Or not necessarily face-to-face, but in person, right? Because you can use video, so forth and so on.
And you mentioned also too, your payers were paying out, right? You were getting paid by your payers.
How did they figure the change out? Once COVID stopped and they're like, okay, we're not going to pay you for the service that you're probably doing so well.
What kind of reason did they give you if they gave you any to stop the payments? They didn't give us any specific
I can understand where there's potential for abuse, right? And like any system can be abused.
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