Many physical therapy centers began providing telehealth at the start of the COVID- 19 public health emergency (PHE). In 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) CMS added 11 new services to the list of telehealth services covered by Medicare during the COVID-19. The CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule […]
Feb 27, 2023 Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 (PHE), declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Thanks to the Administration’s whole-of-government approach to combatting […]
WASHINGTON – Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced proposed permanent rules for the prescribing of controlled medications via telemedicine, expanding patient access to critical therapies beyond the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. The public will be able to comment for 30 days on the proposed rules. The proposed rules – developed with the U.S. […]
In this first article, we set forth the general “incident to” billing requirements, in order to set the groundwork for the series. Note that this article reviews requirements to bill “incident to” a physician’s professional services in an office setting. What are Incident To Services? Medicare Part B allows a physician (or certain other non-physician […]
Wed, February 15, 2023 at 12:15 PM EST·3 min read As public health emergency declarations related to the COVID-19 pandemic come to an end, a new study rates every state’s telehealth laws. The report finds Arizona and Delaware rate best across four key telehealth policy areas, while highlighting some progress in New England. BOSTON, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — As public […]
To a certain extent, hospices will soon be operating under pre-pandemic rules in a “post-COVID” world. With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) going away on May 11, many of the temporary flexibilities that came with it are expected to end, though Congress did extend some through 2024, including hospice re-certifications via telehealth. The flexibilities enabled hospice […]
30 January 2023 by Stacie Heller (New York) , Troy Barsky (Washington, DC), Jodi G. Daniel (Washington, DC) and Allison Kwon (New York) Crowell & Moring Key Takeaways On December 29, President Joe Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-164) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7 trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared. The move to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations would […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access the healthcare services they need in as safe a manner as possible. In order to provide our clients with quick […]
Six of the seven Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are scheduled to jointly host a multijurisdictional contractor advisory committee (CAC) meeting on February 28, 2023. This CAC panel meeting will allow the MACs to obtain feedback from a panel of experts on the strength of currently published evidence on remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic […]
Jan. 26, 2023 By Stephanie QuinnSenior vice president of advocacy, practice advancement and policy I want to pick up here where I left off earlier this month in my conversation with AAFP President Tochi Iroku-Malize, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., about key Academy and primary care wins in the 2023 omnibus spending package. That $1.7 trillion bill, the Consolidated Appropriations […]
BakerHostetler attorneys Vimala Devassy and Justin Chavez analyze how the extension of the Covid-19 public health emergency impacts telehealth practices. They say it’s important to have permanent rules in place when the PHE ends. The pandemic has brought about a seismic shift to telehealth. The renewed federal declaration of the public health emergency through April […]
By Mark Melchionna January 23, 2023 – In pursuit of reliable telehealth access for Medicare beneficiaries, the Alliance for Connected Care wrote a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting an interim final rule (IFR) to ensure that access to some Medicare telehealth services is not eliminated soon after the public health emergency (PHE) ends. Some […]
By John Glaser and Kyle Zebley January 20, 2023 One of the few positive side effects of the deadly and catastrophically disruptive Covid-19 pandemic has been the blossoming of telehealth. Though useful telehealth technology has been available for several years, adoption was slow until providers had to scale it up in a matter of weeks as a […]
Jan 10, 2023 Renee Dowling Learning about the telehealth codes you’ll need to use in 2023. Question: Can you please give us the new telehealth services codes for 2023? A: Medicare Telehealth Services for 2023, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is adding new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes to the list […]