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Expanding Medicare Telehealth Services For the first time using a new expedited process, CMS is  adding 11 new services to the Medicare telehealth  services list since the publication of the May 1, 2020, COVID-19 Interim Final Rule with comment period (IFC). Medicare will begin paying eligible practitioners who furnish these newly added telehealth services effective immediately, and for the duration of the PHE. These new telehealth services include certain neurostimulator analysis and programming services, and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services. The list of these newly added services is available at:  https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/ Medicare-General-Information/ Telehealth/Telehealth-Codes . In the May 1 COVID-19 IFC, CMS modified the process for adding or deleting services from the Medicare telehealth services list to allow for expedited consideration of additional telehealth services during the PHE outside of rulemaking. This update to the Medicare telehealth s...

https://datawarehouse.hrsa. gov/tools/analyzers/geo/ telehealth.aspx Use the above referenced web site to ch eck if an address is eligible for Medicare telehealth originating site* payment. *Authorized originating sites include: Offices of a Physician or Practitioner Hospitals Critical Access Hospitals Community Mental Health Centers Skilled Nursing Facilities Rural Health Clinics Federally Qualified Health Centers Hospital-Based or Critical Access Hospital (CAH)-Based Renal Dialysis Centers (including satellites) If address comes up as NO…that location cannot be originating site where the provider is located Disclaimer: This guidance is to be used for an easy reference; the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM code books and the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting are the authoritative references for accurate and complete coding. This blog may contain references or links to statutes, regulations, or other policy materials. It is not intended to t...