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For doctors drowning in emails, one health system’s new strategy: pay for replies

By STAT News
| January 21, 2022

Since November, doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and a handful of other UCSF clinicians have been able to bill payers for patient emails that require medical evaluation or more than a few minutes to respond.

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