Second Round of Changes during COVID-19

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is further expanding Medicare patient's access to telehealth services by implementing the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act.

This post covers the third portion of this act:

3) increase access to telehealth for Medicare patients so they can get care from their physicians and other clinicians while staying safely at home

Further Expand Telehealth in Medicare

"CMS previously announced that Medicare would pay for certain services conducted by audio-only telephone between beneficiaries and their doctors and other clinicians. Now, CMS is broadening that list to include many behavioral health and patient education services. CMS is also increasing payments for these telephone visits to match payments for similar office and outpatient visits. This would increase payments for these services from a range of about $14-$41 to about $46-$110. The payments are retroactive to March 1, 2020."

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/trump-administration-issues-second-round-sweeping-changes-support-us-healthcare-system-during-covid

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