DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2020 Issue 4 (April)

Is it telehealth or something else? One question can clear things up during emergency

Question: My providers saw a CMS announcement that practices may report audio-only telephone services. They believe this means they can report phone calls with the patient as telehealth E/M office visits. My interpretation of the guidelines is that they are pertinent to phone calls and that the telehealth codes billed with the usual E/M codes still require audio and video. Who is correct?

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