Hospital Offers Employees E-Consults

Casa Grande (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center is offering its 3,000 employees and dependents online consultations with emergency physicians to address common, minor medical conditions.


Casa Grande (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center is offering its 3,000 employees and dependents online consultations with emergency physicians to address common, minor medical conditions.

The 187-bed community hospital has contracted with Stat Health Services, which launched in November. Employers or insurers pay Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company a fee for each enrolled member. A consultation costs $50, which the employer/insurer may pay in whole or split with the member. Casa Grande will pay the consultation fee for its employees.

Consultations are conducted via phone, the phone and a Web site connection, or via Web cams. Prescriptions if needed are electronically sent to the patient's pharmacy of choice. More information is available at casagrandehospital.com and statdoctors.com.

--Joseph Goedert

 

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