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Mar 4, 2024 •Blog

2024 Telehealth Reimbursement Updates: Expanding Access and Optimizing Care

As the adoption of telehealth, remote monitoring, and connected care technologies continues to increase, it’s important for healthcare leaders to stay on top of the latest updates…

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Feb 22, 2024 •Blog

2024 Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Codes & How to Bill

If you are a medical professional interested in leveraging remote technology to optimize patient health, this guide outlines remote therapeutic monitoring codes for 2024 and how to bill…

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Dec 6, 2023 •Blog

RTM vs. RPM CPT Codes 2024: Takeways and Rates

In this article, you’ll learn the differences and rates between RTM billing codes and RPM billing codes for 2024. CMS released the CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule in November…

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Nov 8, 2023 •Blog

Top 5 Rules for Medicare 2024 Remote Patient Monitoring and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: What Companies Need to Know

“This article was originally published by Foley & Lardner LLP [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services RPM Policies (natlawreview.com)] on [11/8/2023], and is reprinted with permission.” On…

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Sep 8, 2023 •Blog

CPT Codes for 2024 Unveiled

Consolidated codes for reporting current COVID-19 immunizations, provisional codes for forthcoming monovalent vaccines, and codes for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) immunizations are among the features of the American Medical Association’s…

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Aug 14, 2023 •Blog

CMS 2024 Proposed Rule Key Takeaways for RPM, RTM & Telehealth

CMS 2024 Proposed Rule Policy Updates On July 13, 2023, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CMS 2024 Proposed Rule and Medicare Physician Fee…

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Aug 7, 2023 •Blog

42 CFR § 411.15 – Particular Services Excluded from Coverage.

§ 411.15 Particular services excluded from coverage. Link to an amendment published at 88 FR 53345, Aug. 7, 2023. The following services are excluded from coverage: (a) Routine physical…

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Jun 26, 2023 •Blog

CMS Final Rules on Payment Impacts Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

The 2023 Physician Fee Schedule final rule (“Final Rule”), which became effective in January 2023, lists the services and rates for which Medicare will reimburse providers. The Final Rule…

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Jun 21, 2023 •Blog

Near supermajority in Senate backs telehealth’s future

What’s the news: A bipartisan group of 60 senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act. The CONNECT for…

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May 24, 2023 •Blog

What is Remote Patient Monitoring? All You Need To Know: Explained

Table of Contents What is Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)? Broadly speaking, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a healthcare delivery method that uses innovations in information technology to…

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Jan 27, 2023 •Blog

REMOTE MONITORING SERVICES UNDER REVIEW: MEDICARE COVERAGE POLICIES MAY BE COMING

Six of the seven Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are scheduled to jointly host a multijurisdictional contractor advisory committee (CAC) meeting on February 28, 2023. This CAC panel…

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Jan 10, 2023 •Blog

Best telehealth practices for physicians, per the AMA

Claire Wallace – Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 About 85 percent of U.S. surgeons are using telehealth in some capacity, according to the American Medical Association’s “2021 Telehealth Survey Report,”…

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Dec 16, 2022 •Blog

AMA offers 10 health recommendations for new year

CHICAGO – As the new year approaches, the American Medical Association (AMA) is offering 10 recommendations to help Americans make the most impactful, long-lasting improvements to their…

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Dec 16, 2022 •Blog

Telehealth Integration and Optimization Toolkit

CONTENTS How will this Toolkit help me? This Toolkit will help you: Telehealth Integration and Optimization Toolkit Improve patient care through virtual health care delivery. Get the…

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Dec 5, 2022 •Blog

CPT code set moving at the speed of digital health innovation

Physician adoption of digital health tools continues to grow, as does the infrastructure facilitating appropriate payment for their use. The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, often called…

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