tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2020 Issue Q2
Knows These Telehealth Waiver Fundamentals
Register the top 5 must-knows about the Medicare updates. Medicare’s expansion of telehealth under the 1135 waiver aims to help providers keep high-risk patients at home in the wake of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Now: Under the waiver, Medicare can now “pay for office, hospital, and other visits furnished via telehealth across the country,” explains the fact sheet. The payment changes also include care administered via telehealth services to beneficiaries in their homes, too. The waivers are backdated to March 6, 2020. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “a...
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