As early as 2022, healthcare systems in the United States started charging for certain MyChart messages. Legal nurse consultant Cambria Nwosu warns that this phenomenon may be on the rise. “MyChart is ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center has announced that starting next week, patients who use MyChart, an app that allows them to message their doctors with questions, may be charged fees ...

Central Ohio Primary Care (COPC), one of the state’s largest medical groups, has started charging patients for certain types of messages sent through the MyChart online portal. The change aligns COPC ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Starting next week, the University of Rochester Medical Center may start billing patients who communicate with their healthcare provider electronically. Patients use the MyChart ...

The BSA Health System announced Thursday it has restored access to its patient portal, MyChart. "Beginning today, patients can use MyChart to schedule or reschedule appointments, message providers, ...

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 ...

As hospitals and health systems look for ways to compensate their physicians for the after work hours spent answering MyChart messages, many have been implementing fees for some messages, but some say ...

Use of telemedicine services among seniors is once again up for consideration by Congress. A Tacoma-based health care network is now charging patients for certain types of online portal messaging with ...

Every day, patients send hundreds of thousands of messages to their doctors through MyChart, a communications platform that is nearly ubiquitous in U.S. hospitals. They describe their pain and divulge ...