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Ontario expands billing codes to cover virtual patient visits as part of its response to COVID-19<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Canada\u2019s Globe and Mail highlighted Think Research\u2019s VirtualCare platform in a report on how Ontario is expanding virtual medicine<\/a> to help fight COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article, published March 14, 2020, discusses the expansion of billing codes for provincial health insurance coverage, which now include virtual clinician services. Previously, clinicians could only bill for in-person visit to a medical office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accessing healthcare services through a remote communications program like VirtualCare helps patients and clinicians reduce the risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus. Digital access also reduces in-person visits for non-urgent matters that may otherwise add to overload within the healthcare system during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move towards virtual visits for clinical services has been an upward trend in healthcare for some time, but COVID-19\u2019s spread has prompted a more rapid shift, the story details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article quotes Think Research\u2019s CEO Sachin Aggarwal on the benefits of virtual visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t just be the fee codes that make the difference, it\u2019ll be the adoption of the technology,” said Aggarwal. “It becomes a part of your work-flow for a lot of care providers for whom the fee code doesn\u2019t really matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just going to change their practice. Once they learn how to do a virtual visit and deliver their care in that manner, a lot of them just aren\u2019t going to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on how your clinic or office can adopt VirtualCare, call 1-877-302-1861 or email virtualcareinfo@thinkresearch.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the Globe story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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