by Rabab Asim | Dec 8, 2020 | CMS, CPT Codes, Physician Fee, Remote Patient Monitoring, Telebehavioral Health, Telehealth
In the most significant telehealth reimbursement advance to date, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have released an early version of the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule. While the current document is still missing information at this point, the...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Aug 29, 2020 | CPT Codes
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is preparing to eliminate the majority (74) of the temporary telehealth CPT codes created during the pandemic once the public health emergency (PHE) ends. It is, however, adding 13 new codes, and keeping 9 codes...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Jul 26, 2020 | COVID-19, CPT Codes, Telebehavioral Health
Telehealth billing practices have been challenged and telehealth CPT codes have been turned on their heads during COVID. Changes have been fast and furious, but are finally starting to stabilize, at least temporarily. Now, some of the COVID-19 temporary telehealth...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Jul 26, 2020 | CMS, COVID-19, CPT Codes, HIPAA, Licensure, Telebehavioral Health, Telemental Health
Telehealth’s future depends on how Congress will deal with telehealth after COVID. At a recent hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the HELP Committee), Senators and healthcare experts supported proposals to promote health...
