tci E/M Coding Alert - 2020 Issue Q3

Telehealth: Pay Attention to These Details, Prepare for Post-COVID Audits

Check for time, audio/video documentation to keep telehealth claims clean. From a medical billing and coding perspective, there have been two silver linings to the COVID-19 emergency: the surge in the use of telehealth and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) relaxation of healthcare-related audits. But in a recent FAQ, CMS announced that it discontinued “exercising enforcement discretion beginning on August 3, 2020, regardless of the status of the public health emergency” (Source: www.cms.gov/files/document/provider-burden-relief-faqs.pdf). This means that your practice needs to be ready for CMS scrutiny of all your pandemic and pre-pandemic...

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