Telehealth Startup Cerebral Halts Controlled Substance Prescriptions

Mental health startup Cerebral will no longer prescribe most controlled substances, The Wall Street Journal reported. From a report: The embattled company is facing investigations from the US Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration over its prescribing practices, which, until this week, included offering prescriptions for stimulants like Adderall. Company co-founder Kyle Robertson wrote in an email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal that it would stop prescribing most controlled substances to new customers on Friday and transition existing patients off of the drug or out of its care by October. Cerebral will still offer drugs that treat opioid-use disorder, like Suboxone. Robertson said in the email that the company only started prescribing controlled substances to customers in 2020 because people weren't able to get in-person care. It's stopping that program, he said, because of "the ability for patients to return to an in-person or hybrid care model for this treatment."

$220 for an 15 min visit at an office vs the lower

[Joe_Dragon]

$220 for an 15 min visit at an office vs the lower remote fee.

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[ThurstonMoore]

Last remote doc appointment I had cost $200.

Re:$220 for an 15 min visit at an office vs the lo

[jellomizer]

The average us Doctors salary is $225,000 a year.
With their salary for 15 minutes you paid $30
Staff for Registration, Coding, Billing and Reimbursement at about 50k a year each about 4 people, each taking about 10 minutes of their time is about $20.00
A modest office building with equipment will be $25
Electronic Health Record system Roughly an other $25
Cost of paying for people who cancel and unfilled a visit slot $30
Cost of paying for services that have been unpaid for $20
Covering Medicaid and other contractual Adjustments expenses $20
Then there is about 20% profit margin
We are above $200 for that service.

There is Malpractice Insurance, Legal Fees, License fees...

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[thomn8r]

There is Malpractice Insurance, Legal Fees, License fees...

You left out the 7 or 8 figure CEO salary fees... https://www.fiercehealthcare.c... [fiercehealthcare.com]

Pill mill

[fermion]

This is just another way to advertise drugs to young people. It is bad enough that The YS is only one of two countries the allow promotion of drugs directly to conquers, but that we still have not gotten the drug dealers under control is sad

Opioid account for most OD deaths. 10 years ago there were 8 prescriptions for every 10 people. The feds have cut that in half, until last year slowly the OD death rate increase.it dies nothing to punish the manufacturers for creating legal product. These business mode

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[muh_freeze_peach]

You are very clearly so thoroughly under informed about drugs. Please take some time to learn more about the subject. Also maybe take some typing classes.

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[fermion]

Fox News teaches people just to the politically correct langue under informed to dismiss an argument with no contradicted data. The CDC tracks opioid prescriptions. In the 1990s direct to consumer advertising become a thing. In the early 2000s as everyone becomes in intense pain and prescriptions sky rocket. As the feds crack down on pull mills, prescription rate plummet. This is all CDC data

Overdose deaths are now way above 100.000 a year. Opioid are most of these, w With meth next. Again CDC data.

The fight against sick people

[Mazzachre]

Being ill in the US, especially chronically ill, is being seen as a second or third grade person, perhaps not even a person anymore... Any initiative to make dealing with illness is quickly shut down by the authorities... I guess because otherwise you don't get the necessary "living on the streets" people and mall shooters to keep the rest of the population living in fear?

Profit driven focus on quantity instead of quality

[techdoc2022]

In the name of improving access to care (a true problem), these start-ups (and large hospital systems) have been hiring armies of Nurse Practitioners, who have very little training. Hospitals love NPs because they cost less but they can charge about the same as a MD. Look at how little training NPs get: https://i.redd.it/cugrt5qfopn5... [i.redd.it] [Infographic: training differences NPs vs MDs vs Petsmart vs etc.] Moreover, some of them do an additional year of "training" and get a DNP, a doctorate of nurse practition

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