Report tele-visit?

[DesertNomad]

The 8500-8 says to list "Visits to Health Professional Within Last 3 Years."

How is the FAA treating "tele-visits" (seemingly common during COVID) for routine things like a requirement to have at least one appointment a year to maintain a doctor/patient relationship for a GP?

Is it a "visit" if I never leave my living room and my doctor is not present in the same city?

 

[Skip Miller]

If the doc keeps a record of the tele-visit, it is a visit.

I can't quote any regs on this, but I can't imagine any other outcome should the feces hit the firewall....

-Skip

 

[Kenny Phillips]

The 8500-8 says to list "Visits to Health Professional Within Last 3 Years."

How is the FAA treating "tele-visits" (seemingly common during COVID) for routine things like a requirement to have at least one appointment a year to maintain a doctor/patient relationship for a GP?

Is it a "visit" if I never leave my living room and my doctor is not present in the same city?

My S/O is a psychologist, and telehealth sessions are "visits" with no other qualifications. I'd call it a visit, and if minor, nobody will look at it twice.

 

[bflynn]

Did they file insurance for it? It's a visit. If you paid the doctor cash under the table with a hush-hush understanding, it's still a visit, there's just no paper trail.

 

[rk911]

The 8500-8 says to list "Visits to Health Professional Within Last 3 Years."

How is the FAA treating "tele-visits" (seemingly common during COVID) for routine things like a requirement to have at least one appointment a year to maintain a doctor/patient relationship for a GP?

Is it a "visit" if I never leave my living room and my doctor is not present in the same city?

yes.