title: Telemedicine and the payment system.
abstract: Free medical phone service has become a professional courtesy, but recent changes in the practice environment should prompt a reexamination of this free service as perhaps an anachronism which is getting in the way of progress.
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005376:Financial Management; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics*; D013689:Telephone / Q000191:economics*