Telemedicine Dermatologist Visits at CT Skin Institute
We are pleased to offer telemedicine dermatologist visits for specific types of visits (please speak to office to learn if we are able to do your visit through telemedicine)
What is Telemedicine? Telemedicine involves the use of electronic communications to enable health care providers to share individual patient medical information, for the purpose of improving patient care. The information may be used for diagnosis, therapy, follow-up and/or education, and may include patient medical records, medical images,or live two-way audio and video. Electronic systems used incorporate network and software security protocols therefore protecting the confidentiality of patient identification and imaging data. This includes measures to safeguard data and to ensure its integrity against intentional or unintentional corruption.
Insurance & Reimbursement
Telemedicine for dermatologist visit charges are billed and collected in the same manner as regular in office treatments and estimated patient responsibility will be due prior to start of Telemedicine encounter. Final patient responsibility will be determined after charges are filed and processed by your insurance carrier(s). To determine how your insurance will process your claim, please call the customer service number on the back of the card and ask them regarding your specific telemedicine benefits for a dermatology specialist visit.
While many insurances in CT are covering telemedicine dermatologist visits during COVID-19 for existing patients (some are even waiving patient cost-shares) ,if your insurance doesn’t cover (please confirm with them prior to visit) or if you do not have insurance, the telemedicine dermatology visit cost is $200 (varies for cosmetic consults). If your insurance requires a referral, please make sure you have one prior to the visit.
For visits through insurance, we do require a valid credit card to be left on file that we keep on a secured/encrypted system and collect all appropriate cost shares on day of visit. Please make sure this is on file prior to the visit. For self pay visits, we collect the fee prior to the visit.
Follow-up Visits
It is possible that during your visit through telemedicine dermatologist may determine that an in-office visit is required to further diagnose or treat the issue (i.e. if provider unable to access issue virtually) or if a biopsy/treatment is needed. If this happens, we will schedule you for the soonest date available.
Meet Our Board Certified Dermatologists:
Dr. Omar Ibrahimi
Dr. Sang Kim
Already Have a Telemedicine Appointment?
Telemedicine Visit Instructions: please note you will need to initiate the telehealth conversation and you can do so by clicking the link below on your designated date/time. Please log in at least 5 minutes prior to your start time. It’s very important that you read the telemedicine visit instruction link for step by step instructions.
Registration Forms: If you are NEW to the practice, please complete and either fax to 901-221-4916 or email to info@ctskindoc.com (not encrypted email address)
We have offices based in Stamford and Milford, CT. Through telemedicine or teledermatology, we can now safely serve our patients throughout CT through virtual consultations