• Overview

Employers

Empower your workforce with improved access to affordable,
convenient and quality health care.

Affordable Medical Benefits

The TelaDoc membership service provides access to a network of licensed, primary care physicians who diagnose individual medical problems, recommend treatment and prescribe medication (when appropriate) over the telephone 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Because an estimated 70–75% of all primary care medical cases can be diagnosed over the telephone, TelaDoc has created a more cost effective and more convenient way for employers and employees to access medical care. TelaDoc offers both cost-containment and value-added services for self-insured organizations and un-insured or under-insured consumers.

Reduce your company’s health care costs. TelaDoc can potentially save the average self-insured organization $200 per employee per year! Medical consult fees cost about the same as a co-pay and are far less expensive than the cost of a PCP visit, an urgent care facility or an ER visit.

Improve competitiveness in the marketplace. The TelaDoc service can reduce absenteeism. Employees no longer have to miss an entire day to go to the doctor for routine illness. Diagnosis occurs within three hours, getting employees and their dependents well faster. If medication is appropriate, the script is phoned into the patient’s pharmacy (usually within 1 hour).

Maximize employee productivity. Besides reducing absenteeism, offering TelaDoc enhances employee recruitment and retention. It drives employee satisfaction as part of health care benefits package and serves employees in rural areas and those who travel frequently.

Offer TelaDoc at any time of the year. TelaDoc is neither an insurance plan nor an advice line. It is real access to non-emergency medical care, so it is available at all times. It is a qualified expense for HSA, FSA and HRA accounts and overlays with current health plans ranging from Consumer Directed Plans to PPOs. TelaDoc allows employees to better manage and preserve HSA, FSA, or HRA funds and maximizes the value of Health Savings Accounts.

Benefits for Employees:  

• Convenience. Talk to a doctor on the weekend, while at soccer practice, or on a road trip. No need to hire a sitter; you don’t have to leave the house to talk to a doctor.
• Cost. Medical consults with a TelaDoc physician are comparable to an office visit copay.
• Service. 24/7 access to account via the website or call center.
• Portable medical record. Employees manage their personal medical record and can share it with their other doctors.

*International Policy – Members with residences in the United States may call TelaDoc when traveling abroad only if they can be contacted at a U.S. number (i.e., cell phone with American phone number). TelaDoc physicians will not be able to call international numbers. The physicians will be able to offer advice but cannot prescribe medications for members traveling outside the United States.

Find out what TelaDoc can offer your organization. Complete the form and a TelaDoc sales professional will contact you shortly. If you are a TelaDoc member, please call 1-800-TelaDoc (835.2342) for assistance.