{"id":139160,"date":"2022-05-11T04:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T09:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/telehealth-aims-to-crack-open-paxlovids-prescription-bottleneck"},"modified":"2022-05-11T04:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T09:02:30","slug":"telehealth-aims-to-crack-open-paxlovids-prescription-bottleneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/telehealth-aims-to-crack-open-paxlovids-prescription-bottleneck","title":{"rendered":"Telehealth aims to crack open Paxlovid\u2019s prescription bottleneck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/telehealth-aims-to-crack-open-paxlovids-prescription-bottleneck2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After months of shortages, pharmacies across the United States are being stocked with drugs to treat Covid-19. Now, the bottleneck has shifted to getting a prescription \u2014 and patients and public health agencies are looking to telehealth for help.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cSometimes we hear telehealth is going to cure all of our challenges with access to health care, and that\u2019s just not the case,\u201d said Michelle Morse, chief medical officer of New York City\u2019s department of health. \u201cIt\u2019s a significant step forward in access, and yet there are still equity concerns with telehealth. It\u2019s not a panacea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The patients most likely to know about and navigate digital health platforms to access the antivirals are typically younger, more affluent, and already well-served by the health system. And while a small group of public health departments are offering free telehealth, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrsa.gov\/CovidUninsuredClaim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end<\/a> of the Health Resources and Services Administration Covid-19 Uninsured program means that uninsured patients may struggle to pay for teleservices, let alone any Covid care.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Lin, an emergency physician who works on an urgent care telehealth line in New York City, said many of the patients she sees turn to telehealth for Covid care have primary care doctors, but have struggled to get an appointment with them on short notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of shortages, pharmacies across the United States are being stocked with drugs to treat Covid-19. Now, the bottleneck has shifted to getting a prescription \u2014 and patients and public health agencies are looking to telehealth for help. \u201cSometimes we hear telehealth is going to cure all of our challenges with access to health [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}