{"id":31671,"date":"2020-12-14T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.mtelehealth.com\/?p=31671"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:15:45","slug":"how-cpt-codes-set-stage-for-telehealths-rise-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drmiltie.com\/at-home-testing\/how-cpt-codes-set-stage-for-telehealths-rise-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"How CPT codes set stage for telehealth\u2019s rise amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The use of telemedicine has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In part because specific regulatory barriers were lowered, but also because an infrastructure was already in place to help manage workflow and facilitate payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of how telehealth has flourished in the public health emergency and insights about where digital health may go next were presented during \u201cCoverage, Payment and Coding for Digital Medicine and Telehealth: The Present and Future,\u201d an extended session at the AMA CPT\u00ae<\/sup> and RBRVS 2020 Annual Symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event, held virtually this year, attracts coding professionals from across the nation to learn the latest changes to the\u202fCurrent Procedural Terminology<\/a>\u202f(CPT\u00ae) code set and review developments from the AMA\/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (RUC<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting the spotlight this year was the work of the AMA Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group<\/a> (DMPAG), which identifies barriers to digital medicine adoption and proposes comprehensive solutions on coding, payment, coverage, clinical integration and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, a professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and senior advisor of virtual care at Mass General Brigham , serves as DMPAG co-chair and he summarized the panel\u2019s mission as answering the four main questions physicians have about digital medicine tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n