tci Part B Insider - 2020 Issue Q3

Physician Notes: See Details on COVID-19 Counseling Payments

Plus: Part B MAC offers insight on Accelerated Payment recoupments. If your Part B practice is testing patients for the coronavirus and counseling them on self-isolation afterward, you can now bill Medicare for that service. On July 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced reimbursement options for physicians and other healthcare providers who counsel patients after COVID-19 testing on things like self-isolation, review of signs and symptoms, available services, mask wearing, contact tracing, and household testing protocols. “CMS will use existing evaluation and management (E/M) payment...

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