HealthLeaders Media August 12, 2020
Revenue Cycle Advisor

Organizations should carefully review their coding and billing processes to ensure they comply with CMS’ rules.

A version of this article was first published August 12, 2020, by HCPro’s Revenue Cycle Advisor, a sibling publication to HealthLeaders.

CMS’ latest round of updates to its novel coronavirus (COVID-19) FAQs on Medicare fee-for-service billing provides additional information on hospital billing for remote services, including a decision tree guiding hospitals through their options for billing for telemedicine.

According to the updated information in Section LL: Hospital Billing for Remote Services, a hospital may bill for telemedicine services during the COVID-19 public health emergency when a beneficiary’s home is serving as a provider-based department (PBD) of the hospital. The decision provides various scenarios and...

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