SRFP007: Affording Telemedicine Medication Abortion: Examining A Sliding-Scale Payment Option and Patient’s Ability to Pay
Sajal Sanan; Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH; Rebecca Gomperts, MD, PhD, MPP; Nikeeta Shah, BA, MPH; Anna Fiastro, MPH, MEM
Sajal Sanan; Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH; Rebecca Gomperts, MD, PhD, MPP; Nikeeta Shah, BA, MPH; Anna Fiastro, MPH, MEM
This is a great topic and research study. Nice work. Thanks. hope that we can connect with you at the Robert Graham Center to consider some collaborations.
This was a very interesting project in an area that is critical to women's health - I really like this notion of a sliding scale option and would love to see more work on how this can be implemented and evaluated more widely. Great job.
Is it important that patients pay something/anything? How much revenue is actually produced by these low payments on the sliding scale? How does availability of reduced cost on this sliding scale influence the patients who find their way to this service?Thanks for sharing your work here at NAPCRG. I hope you will continue work in this area.
Great job Sajal! As primary care embarks on novel services like early pregnancy termination via telemed, you are asking questions that many administrators may ask in terms of sustaining a new clinical service.
who offered the sliding scale and how did they afford to offer it? Is it sustainable for the future? Thank you for sharing your work with NAPCRG!
This is an important idea---one that some practices might apply more widely. I, too, am interested in what it costs to finance such an option.
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Debra Stulberg
stulberg@uchicago.edu 11/20/2021Great poster! Thank you for this work. In future analyses, I'd love to see more about the option to use Medicaid in states where abortion is covered. With more emerging telemedicine abortion providers, I think it's important to assess whether patients whose insurance plans (including Medicaid) cover abortion actually know this and have the option to use their insurance. And of course, many plans still don't cover it, and we should measure the impact of that as well! But in the meantime I am happy to see the use of sliding scale option when people need to pay out of pocket.