DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2020 Issue 5 (May)

COVID-19 update: Therapy codes added to telehealth list, but therapists can’t bill them

In its April 6 interim final rule, Medicare added dozens of physical therapy and occupational therapy codes to the list of payable telehealth codes, with one catch: Physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists remain by law ineligible to bill for telehealth services. That means therapists can’t get paid when they bill telehealth therapy services directly.

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