Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patients who ask for their doctors’ help through online portals might soon notice something new: fees for their physicians’ online ...

On July 1, MultiCare implemented fees for MyChart messages, joining a growing number of health systems aiming to manage the increasing volume of patient communications. According to the Tacoma, ...

WASHINGTON — The next time you message your doctor to ask about a pesky cough or an itchy rash, you may want to check your bank account first — you could get a bill for the question. Hospital systems ...

Seattle-based UW Medicine began charging for MyChart on June 27 and said only about 250 messages have incurred a fee, Crystal Gail Rose Kong-Wong, MD, family medicine physician and associate medical ...

Are you thinking about asking your doctor a question through your online patient portal? At the University of Michigan Health and a growing number of hospitals across the U.S., it could cost you. U-M ...

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It’s a Wednesday, and I’m sending a question to my doctor through the messaging portal they encourage us to use. I receive a response not too long after — which is fairly surprising, especially with ...

Starting Wednesday, patients at Johns Hopkins Medicine will sometimes be charged for asking their physicians for advice through the online patient portal, MyChart. While most messages will remain free ...

A Tacoma-based health care network is now charging patients for certain types of online portal messaging with providers, joining other systems that started the practice during the pandemic. MultiCare ...

Patients who ask for their doctors’ help through online portals might soon notice something new: fees for their physicians’ online advice. A growing number of health systems in the Chicago area and ...