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The Call MD Plus Basic Membership


                                           View the Member Handbook




Provides 24 hour, national access to physician consultative services to our member clients who for
varying reasons are unable to obtain medical advice or care from their primary care physician.

Our purpose is to make available interim support with the expectation that clients will follow up
with their own doctor. Our information technology facilitates access to care for thousands of people
across the country. We aim to seamlessly integrate a telemedicine consultative option into the
everyday health care delivery process when contact with our client's primary care practitioner is
not immediately accessible.

The features of tele-health are significant and include: improved access to doctors, nurses and other
qualified health practitioners; timely access to provisional services regardless of time and distance;
and reduced time, cost and risk of travel for clients, families and health care providers which
minimizes disruption and its associated stress to their daily working lives. Our commitment and
innovation is to partner our members and our health care professionals to achieve leadership in the
tele-health industry ultimately increasing our capacity to enhance access to another health care
choice for members nationwide eliminating barriers of time and distance.

We recognize the challenges faced by our health care systems issues which are actually universal;
such as the uneven geographic distribution of health care resources, health care facilities and health
human resources, as well as inadequate access to and the alarming rise in the cost of health care.

Call MD Plus has addressed these issues through our service. With our telemedicine concept, once
you're connected, tele-presence can be felt, generating a means of triaging patients to appropriate
sources of care and clinical decision making without leaving their current location.

Each telemedicine site designates a primary telemedicine coordinator, specifically a registered nurse
on call for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The registered nurse system was implemented to simplify
the communications process and make it as efficient as possible. Our registered nurses serve as the
client's primary contact, a facilitator between the patient and the physician and the telemedicine
program.

Call MD Plus uses our state-of-the-art electronic medical records (EMR) system to forward
imperative client information such as their medical history, privacy statements, updated compliance
and medical release forms from their primary care physician to the Call MD Plus physician to
execute consultations for non-emergency issues.

Following review of the client's information, via the registered nurse, our physician will be
connected with the client to discuss and provide guidance about their concern. Confidential
consultations are approximately ten minutes and the outcome of the consultation is communicated
to the registered nurse for EMR storage and security. Non-narcotic prescriptions may be prescribed
if allowed by state law and only when the physician feels there is sufficient medical information.

A host of complementary technologies are emerging to add value to email and augment its use. In
particular, use of secure video conferencing among others. Enhancing the quality, continuity and
affordability of provisional medical care is our goal.

Call MD Plus is a nationwide network of medical physicians who review the medical information
collected from registered nurses. They provide medical advice in 10-minute sessions and issue non-
narcotic prescriptions (where allowed by law and when sufficient medical history is available) to
expedite a hassle-free treatment.




                                     Membership includes:

      A nationwide network of medical doctors available to discuss medical issues with health care
       features members and selected employer programs.
      Storage of its member's electronic medical record (EMR) in a highly secured internet
       accessible environment and makes this information available to our network doctors prior to
       a doctor consultation.
      Full time access to registered nurses who are available to receive non-emergency medical
       calls 24 hours per day / 7 days per week.
      Also included is LifeEvents™ Counseling.
       Licensed clinicians provide you and each covered family member with unlimited
       telephonic counseling.
        Member Services: (800) 843-1327
        Hours of Operation: 24/7, 365 days per year
Download The LifeEvents™ PDF




Disclosures:

Call MD Plus discount programs are not health insurance policies. The plan provides discounts at
network pharmacies and mail order facilities. The plan does not make payments directly to the
providers. The plan members are obligated to pay for all services but will receive a discount from
those pharmacies that have contracted with this discount plan organization. It is the member's
responsibility to confirm with member services that a pharmacy is an active provider.


* Add $35 fee for each consultation. Consultation fees incurred during this period can not be
refunded. Cal lMD, Call MD Plus and Call MD Plus Ultimate are not health insurance products.

What is Telemedicine?

The term telemedicine encompasses a broad range of telecommunications and information
technologies and many clinical applications through computer based, often telephonic mediums.
The first telemedicine programs were established over 40 years ago, but the technology has grown
considerably in the past decade.

The practice of medicine through telecommunications, or telemedicine was developed and fostered
in the early 1960's when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) first put men
in space. NASA continued exploring the use of telemedicine by funding telemedicine research
projects in the late 1960's and early 1970's.

Telemedicine's presence has multiplied proliferating, throughout much of the industrialized world,
reflecting the convergence of scientific, technological, economic, and social factors. For more than
two decades, high-capacity digital networks and constantly improving technology have been
systematically organized in many regions of industrialized countries.

Telemedicine uses technology to deliver medical services to the point of need. In its report on the
evaluation of clinical applications of telemedicine, a committee of the Institute of Medicine defined
telemedicine as "the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and
support health care when distance separates the participants." Telemedicine can refer to clinical
and or non-clinical services. The extent to which telemedicine service is provided varies depending
on the administering organization and their existing agreement between the organizations and
companies with which they have partnered.

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Basic

  • 1. The Call MD Plus Basic Membership View the Member Handbook Provides 24 hour, national access to physician consultative services to our member clients who for varying reasons are unable to obtain medical advice or care from their primary care physician. Our purpose is to make available interim support with the expectation that clients will follow up with their own doctor. Our information technology facilitates access to care for thousands of people across the country. We aim to seamlessly integrate a telemedicine consultative option into the everyday health care delivery process when contact with our client's primary care practitioner is not immediately accessible. The features of tele-health are significant and include: improved access to doctors, nurses and other qualified health practitioners; timely access to provisional services regardless of time and distance; and reduced time, cost and risk of travel for clients, families and health care providers which minimizes disruption and its associated stress to their daily working lives. Our commitment and innovation is to partner our members and our health care professionals to achieve leadership in the tele-health industry ultimately increasing our capacity to enhance access to another health care choice for members nationwide eliminating barriers of time and distance. We recognize the challenges faced by our health care systems issues which are actually universal; such as the uneven geographic distribution of health care resources, health care facilities and health human resources, as well as inadequate access to and the alarming rise in the cost of health care. Call MD Plus has addressed these issues through our service. With our telemedicine concept, once you're connected, tele-presence can be felt, generating a means of triaging patients to appropriate sources of care and clinical decision making without leaving their current location. Each telemedicine site designates a primary telemedicine coordinator, specifically a registered nurse on call for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The registered nurse system was implemented to simplify
  • 2. the communications process and make it as efficient as possible. Our registered nurses serve as the client's primary contact, a facilitator between the patient and the physician and the telemedicine program. Call MD Plus uses our state-of-the-art electronic medical records (EMR) system to forward imperative client information such as their medical history, privacy statements, updated compliance and medical release forms from their primary care physician to the Call MD Plus physician to execute consultations for non-emergency issues. Following review of the client's information, via the registered nurse, our physician will be connected with the client to discuss and provide guidance about their concern. Confidential consultations are approximately ten minutes and the outcome of the consultation is communicated to the registered nurse for EMR storage and security. Non-narcotic prescriptions may be prescribed if allowed by state law and only when the physician feels there is sufficient medical information. A host of complementary technologies are emerging to add value to email and augment its use. In particular, use of secure video conferencing among others. Enhancing the quality, continuity and affordability of provisional medical care is our goal. Call MD Plus is a nationwide network of medical physicians who review the medical information collected from registered nurses. They provide medical advice in 10-minute sessions and issue non- narcotic prescriptions (where allowed by law and when sufficient medical history is available) to expedite a hassle-free treatment. Membership includes:  A nationwide network of medical doctors available to discuss medical issues with health care features members and selected employer programs.  Storage of its member's electronic medical record (EMR) in a highly secured internet accessible environment and makes this information available to our network doctors prior to a doctor consultation.  Full time access to registered nurses who are available to receive non-emergency medical calls 24 hours per day / 7 days per week.  Also included is LifeEvents™ Counseling. Licensed clinicians provide you and each covered family member with unlimited telephonic counseling.  Member Services: (800) 843-1327  Hours of Operation: 24/7, 365 days per year
  • 3. Download The LifeEvents™ PDF Disclosures: Call MD Plus discount programs are not health insurance policies. The plan provides discounts at network pharmacies and mail order facilities. The plan does not make payments directly to the providers. The plan members are obligated to pay for all services but will receive a discount from those pharmacies that have contracted with this discount plan organization. It is the member's responsibility to confirm with member services that a pharmacy is an active provider. * Add $35 fee for each consultation. Consultation fees incurred during this period can not be refunded. Cal lMD, Call MD Plus and Call MD Plus Ultimate are not health insurance products. What is Telemedicine? The term telemedicine encompasses a broad range of telecommunications and information technologies and many clinical applications through computer based, often telephonic mediums. The first telemedicine programs were established over 40 years ago, but the technology has grown considerably in the past decade. The practice of medicine through telecommunications, or telemedicine was developed and fostered in the early 1960's when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) first put men in space. NASA continued exploring the use of telemedicine by funding telemedicine research projects in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Telemedicine's presence has multiplied proliferating, throughout much of the industrialized world, reflecting the convergence of scientific, technological, economic, and social factors. For more than two decades, high-capacity digital networks and constantly improving technology have been systematically organized in many regions of industrialized countries. Telemedicine uses technology to deliver medical services to the point of need. In its report on the evaluation of clinical applications of telemedicine, a committee of the Institute of Medicine defined telemedicine as "the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants." Telemedicine can refer to clinical and or non-clinical services. The extent to which telemedicine service is provided varies depending on the administering organization and their existing agreement between the organizations and companies with which they have partnered.