Telehealth prescribing models in the US

Telehealth prescribing models in the US Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.

Trying to work out what would count as evidence on telehealth prescribing models, before collecting any. This is the part I usually skip and it is the part that makes the rest useful.

If two explanations predict the same observation, observing it does not help. So: what observation would separate them?

Adding a small correction to the telehealth prescribing models summary above rather than a disagreement with it. The substance holds; one of the figures is out by a factor that matters.

Building on post #32 rather than restating it.

One caution on telehealth prescribing models: everything above assumes the underlying documentation is what it claims to be. That assumption is doing real work and is rarely stated.

Post #47 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

Telehealth prescribing models looks different depending on whether you are reading the primary literature or the summaries of it, and the difference is not in our favour.

Worth separating two things that post #53 runs together.

I keep a log for telehealth prescribing models specifically because my memory of it turned out to be systematically wrong in one direction. Six weeks of notes cost nothing and settled it.

Formulary position changes on a schedule that is published in advance, which means a decision made now may be answering last year's formulary.

I have no interest in any supplier named above.

Date every claim in this subcategory. Positions here have moved repeatedly and old posts are read as current.

Reporting the observation and leaving the explanation open deliberately.

My understanding of telehealth prescribing models is a few years old and may have been superseded. If it has been, I would genuinely like to know rather than keep repeating it.

I had written a reply contradicting post #87 and deleted it. Here is what survived.

Reframing telehealth prescribing models slightly, because I think the disagreement is about the question rather than the answer. If the question is "does it happen", yes. If it is "how often", nobody here knows.