I know of cases where doctors who were required to be present in the hospital to do psych evaluations tried to get away with doing it via video. The connection was bad, the patient could not hear the doctor and so they were considered confused and non responsive. There is so much in any evaluation of a person for any kind of medical situation that is just absent from "telemedicine" even if it is working well. This just seems like a way to get paid, and for an whole in industry to find a way to grift, for doing nearly nothing, not to mention to elimiate doctors or pretend there is doctors covering areas where they are not.