Covid-19 & Telehealth Services: Refresh Your PHE and Telehealth Policies With This Primer
Know the various modifiers and when to append them.
With COVID-19 numbers trending upwards again, you may want to update your PHE protocols, revisit the fundamentals on coding Medicare telehealth services, and check in with your Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) to see if there have been any jurisdictional changes.
That was the word from NGS Medicare’s Lori Langevin in the Part B payer’s May 24 webinar, “the Public Health Emergency and COVID-19 Telehealth Services.”
Reminder: The COVID-19 PHE and the associated flexibilities are still ongoing at this point. “The public health emergency was actually...
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