Insurance companies and their enrollees can benefit from shared medical appointments (SMAs) by promotion to contracted health care providers. Health care providers will also benefit. Community outreach efforts by insurers can include: sponsorship for JasterHealth presentations and workshops at regional and national medical conferences to inform medical providers about the utility of SMAs; and support for Dr. Jaster to work directly with interested medical clinics to help implement SMAs.
Insurance companies can directly benefit enrollee health by:
- Featuring shared medical appointments in patient newsletters and on patient websites--Dr. Jaster can offer guest commentary.
- Creating virtual shared medical appointments where Drs. Jaster or Scott (or another medical provider) lead an on-line discussion relating to self-management of chronic disease.
- Designing virtual nutrition and lifestyle counseling programs.
- Building web logs (blogs) for patient questions related to nutrition and lifestyle modification and searchable question/answer archives.
JasterHealth will happily provide programs specific to your organization’s mission.
