Recent News:
- AMA Releases COVID-19 Vaccine Codes and Administration Codes (added 11/11/2020)
- CMS Suspends Accelerated Payment Program to Medical Providers (added 4/27/2020)
- CMS Removes Beneficiary Co-Pay and Deductible for 3/18/20 and Later Visits Where COVID-19 Testing was Ordered or Administered (added 4/10/2020)
- CMS Updated Clinician Guidance Letter 4/7/2020
- HHS Announces HIPAA Discretion for actions such as “disclosure to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or a similar public health authority at the state level, for the purpose of preventing or controlling the spread of COVID-19” (added 4/2/2020)
- CMS Updates Place of Service and Modifiers for Telehealth (added 4/1/2020 – to be published in the Federal Register on 4/6/2020)
- CMS Announces Sweeping Regulatory Changes (added 4/1/2020) that include Medicare Telehealth for patients with only audio phones and those without an established relationship
- CDC Approves New ICD-10 code U07.1, COVID-19, Effective April 1, 2020 (Added 4/1/2020)
- CMS Issues “Flexibilities to Fight COVID-19” on 3/30/2020 (added 3/31/2020)
- CMS Accelerates Medicare Advance Payments Program During National Public Health Emergency (added 3/31/2020)
- CMS Approves Medicaid Waivers for 11 Additional States (added 3/24/2020)
- CMS Announces Relief to Providers Participating in Quality Programs (including MIPS) in response to COVID-19 (3/22/2020)
- CMS Releases Telehealth Toolkits for General Practitioners and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Providers (3/20/2020)
- Medicare Announces Waiver for Telehealth Payments (3/17/2020): “Under this new waiver, Medicare can pay for office, hospital, and other visits furnished via tele-health across the country and including in patient’s places of residence starting March 6, 2020”
- HHS Provides Discretion for use of “Popular Applications” for Audio and Video Chat (added 3/17/2020)
Ongoing Resources:
- Telehealth Best Practices from April 2020 Survey (added 5/7/2020)
- Medicare payment for telephone E&M visits (CPT codes 99441-99443) is now equivalent to payment for office/outpatient visits with established patients effective March 1, 2020
- CPT Testing Codes for COVID-19
- Small Business Association COVID-19 Relief Options
- CDC Information for Healthcare Professionals
- Priorities for Testing Patients with Suspected COVID-19
- CDC Guidelines on ICD-10 Coding for dates of service prior to 4/1/2020
- HCPCS Coding for Laboratories
- Coding for Medicare Telemedicine Healthcare: Coding guidelines and a chart are included in this fact sheet
- Medicaid Disaster Response Toolkit
- Medicare Telehealth Codes
- Telehealth Toolkit for General Practitioners
- End-Stage Renal Disease Providers Toolkit