Telehealth Consultations

Telehealth Consultations are defined as the use of telehealth designed to facilitate collaboration among providers, often involving a specialist, or between clinical team members, across time and/or distance, on the assessment, diagnosis, and/or clinical management of a specific patient or group of patients.

WCRx Clinic provides Telehealth Consultations where you and your specialist are not in the same room as each other and use technology to be able to see and hear each other, a bit like Face Time or Skype. At the time of consultation you will see your WCRx doctor through a computer screen or a smart device.

The Telehealth Consultation includes health education services, remote monitoring of vital signs, ECG or blood pressure and remote doctor-patient consultations (telemedicine).

There are 2 ways WCRx uses Telehealth to communicate with its patients.

A Patient Portal 

With the security of a username and password, the patient portal lets you send and get emails from your doctor or nurse, ask for prescription refills and set up appointments. Your WCRx doctor

can also share your lab or imaging test results and tell you what they mean. This is often faster than waiting to talk to them on the phone.

Virtual Appointments 

Some of WCRx doctors can let you have an appointment through a phone call or video conference. You can often have these meetings with mental and behavioral health professionals and our 

clinic.

Does Medicare cover telehealth appointments?

You can get Medicare telehealth services for certain emergency department visits at home. You can get certain physical and occupational therapy services at home. Medicare covers some services delivered via audio only devices. Medicare also covers virtual check-ins 

and E-visits.