mHealth Intelligence February 21, 2024
Anuja Vaidya

A federal report reveals that healthcare providers using telehealth to deliver evaluation and management services generally complied with Medicare rules.

Healthcare providers met Medicare requirements when billing for most evaluation and management (E/M) services provided via telehealth, a new federal report shows.

Released this month by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the report aimed to determine whether physicians and other healthcare practitioners using telehealth to provide E/M services complied with Medicare requirements.

In March 2020, as COVID-19 cases began to soar across the United States, Congress and the HHS secretary authorized the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to enact temporary waivers to expand access to healthcare under the Medicare...

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