Telehealth for pediatric well visits: sometimes the best option

ABSTRACT

During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, pediatricians realized that to reach families and continue to provide preventive care, including developmental, mental health, and social determinants of health screenings, they needed to embrace telehealth and meet families where they were at home. [...]many families expressed that they were more comfortable staying on "their turf" rather than coming to a health care facility, which changes the power paradigm of who drives the visit. During the pandemic, current fee-for-service models have rapidly exposed the problems with our health care system.