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By Della Monroe


The cost of health care today can be crippling. Families may be forced to go without needed medical services leading to less than optimal care for America's growing population. The need for care often does not occur during normal working hours, which may present challenges to physician access. AmeriPlan MD Plus offers an economical solution to help patients cope with both of these issues.

Over the past twenty years the company has developed telemedicine that provides access to care twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Modern technology allows for communication with doctors via email, phone or even video. Expensive and lengthy visits to the hospital emergency room can be greatly reduced or even eliminated.

Frequently patients experience a temporary problem that requires immediate attention. Waiting for days or weeks is not an effective treatment, since the problem may have already resolved itself by the time a patient actually sees the doctor. The ability to contact a professional, receive a diagnosis and needed prescription from the pharmacy just makes life so much easier.

Employers have also suffered the harsh effects of the high cost of health insurance. With traditional medicine, patients may miss an entire day of work waiting in a doctor's office. This certainly has a negative impact on productivity and may increase absenteeism. Worse, the employee may lose a day's pay that he or she can ill afford to lose. Telemedicine is a win-win solution for both the employer and the employee.

Parents of small children are frequent visitors to urgent care facilities and emergency rooms. Often these visits could be avoided if the parents could get medical advice by reaching out to a doctor with a phone call. Telemedicine can calm a parent's fears, provide quick access to medication for the child, and save everyone time and money.

So called gatekeepers, also known as primary care physicians, may delay access to care. Direct contact with the appropriate specialist can get results much sooner. Most parents have faced the uncertainty of a child's high fever in the middle of the night. Talking to a doctor and telemedicine can help parents make informed decisions for their sick child.

The company has a network of doctors who are residents of the United States. Patients speak with a physician licensed in their state. The advantages of phone calls, emails and video conferencing gives patients freedom from worry when it is time for travel. Where ever a patient is in the United States, help is just a phone call away. It is comforting to know that you will be talking to a doctor who lives in your home state.

The company provides its health care provides with continuing education to ensure they can effectively use the electronic records. Customer service is there to help callers with questions. Surveys that rate the doctors' performance assure that the physicians are accountable for the treatment provided. For a nominal monthly fee health care can be delivered with this streamlined method. Telemedicine makes sense.




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