HealthLeaders Media September 8, 2022
However, ‘high risk’ providers billed the program for $127.7 million for telehealth services in the first year of the pandemic.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The first year of the coronavirus pandemic saw massive infusions of federal money and relaxed oversight by HHS of telemedicine services.
– High-risk providers represent only 0.2% of the audit sample, but they billed Medicare and collected $127.7 million in FFS payments between March 2020 and February 2021.
– The American Telemedicine Association calls the report “another clear statement outlining the resounding success of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
First the good news.
Only 1,714 of the 742,000 providers who billed Medicare and Medicare Advantage for telehealth services for about 28 million beneficiaries during the first year...
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