Eleven New Telehealth Services Added to Medicare Reimbursement List
Eleven New Telehealth Services Added to Medicare Reimbursement List
CMS has added 11 new services to the Medicare telehealth services list. Additionally, these new services focus on specific neurostimulator analysis and programming, and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation (CMS, 2020). There have been over 135 services added to the list of payable Medicare telehealth services since CMS started expanding Medicare coverage, including ED visits and inpatient encounters.
Furthermore, you can review our Telehealth Resource Center for the full list of revised coding and billing guidelines for COVID-19. Furthermore, if your facility is struggling with deciphering the revised telehealth guidelines, contact YES HIM Consulting for coding support from our HIM-credentialed experts.
Here are the additional services that were added to the list:
93797 – Cardiac rehab
93798 – Cardiac rehab/monitor
93750 – In-person ventricular assist device interrogation
95970 – Electronic analysis of implanted neurostimulator pulse without programming
95971 – Electronic analysis of implanted neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter with programming
95972 – Electronic analysis of implanted neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter
95983 – Electronic analysis of implanted neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter, by physician or other qualified healthcare professional; with brain neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter programming; first 15 minutes face-to-face with physician or other qualified healthcare professional
95984 – Electronic analysis of implanted neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter, by physician or other qualified healthcare professional; with brain neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter programming; each additional 15 minutes face-to-face with physician or other qualified healthcare professional
G0422 – Intensive cardiac rehab with exercise
G0423 – Intensive cardiac rehab, no exercise
G0424 – Pulmonary rehab with exercise
Also, this list from the CMS telemedicine final rule 2020 includes all the telehealth services payable under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (CMS, 2020).
