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A phone call with a patient — plus complete documentation — will be all it takes to report 89 services on Medicare's telehealth list. Practices will also be able to receive full reimbursement for 39 new services performed via telehealth, according to the updated telehealth list posted today. The changes are retroactive to March 1.
 
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.
 

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