AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 10 (October)

Telemedicine Services Modifier 95 (October 2017)

October 2017 pages 5-6 Telemedicine Services Modifier 95 This article discusses a newly established modifier in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2017 code set that is designed to identify synchronous telemedicine services. These are services performed in real-time using interactive audio and video communication technology that differ from asynchronous services, which are not performed in real-time. These are the opposite of asynchronous services, which are designed to store and then forward health and patient data (eg, laboratory results, images, videos, records) between health care providers and their patients. Previously, only a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...

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