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CMS and private payers have knocked down barriers for telehealth and telemedicine services during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). But a MedPage Today article reveals that barriers to payment remain, and the steady flow of changes to coding and billing guidance is a major hurdle.
Update: CMS has updated the NCCI section of the CMS website to state that the changes announced in its April 7 NCCI updates reported below are retroactive to Jan. 1.
 
 
Among the dozens of codes that CMS approved for use through telehealth during the COVID-19 emergency, you’ll find an array of E/M services, speech and physical therapy encounters and cognitive assessment codes.
 
 
As telehealth is granted unprecedented freedoms during the COVID-19 crisis, your providers are not only eligible to add additional services to their list but they can now provide direct supervision electronically as well.
 
 
Reuben Elovitz, M.D., runs Private Health Dallas, a concierge medical practice. He's one of several health care providers who recently talked to Part B News about how they've been coping with the COVID-19 emergency. This is his story.
 

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