Patient Portal Use is Growing, But Physician Billing in Medicare Hasn’t Caught Up (free sign up required)

Medicare beneficiaries are communicating more with their physicians through patient portal messaging, but just a small portion (about 0.05%) of these results in a bill to Medicare to evaluate or manage health conditions. Of the messages that results in a bill, most involved physicians helping patients with high blood pressure or diabetes, finds a new study published in Health Affairs Scholar.