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Georgia Medicaid & Medicare Reimbursement for RPM, CCM & TCM

Use this page as a structured planning reference for Georgia. Medicare code families provide a national baseline; Medicaid program, managed-care, provider-type, and setting rules require state and plan-level verification.

Source audited

Georgia reimbursement source review completed August 31, 2026. Georgia Medicaid maintains a current MMIS provider-manual library and a 2026 Telehealth Guidance publication. The first-party public material reviewed in this audit did not provide a clean current table establishing blanket payment of the full Medicare remote patient monitoring CPT family or specific 2026 RPM rates. Organizations should therefore verify the applicable Georgia Medicaid policy manual, fee schedule, provider type, medical-necessity and documentation rules, and Georgia Families managed-care plan requirements before modeling RPM reimbursement rather than relying on the legacy workbook alone.

Effective/source context: Georgia Medicaid current provider-manual index checked August 31, 2026; the program lists current policy manuals released July 1, 2026 and publishes Telehealth Guidance version dated April 1, 2026. Georgia Medicaid Management Information System - Provider Manuals

Legacy workbook check: matching GA workbook located in the WordPress media library. The official policy source above has been checked; legacy workbook values still require value-level validation before operational use.

What to verify in Georgia

Build the reimbursement picture in layers

01

Medicare baseline

Confirm the applicable physician fee schedule, code descriptors, supervision rules, device/data requirements, time thresholds, and any annual coding changes.

02

Georgia Medicaid program

Review the current fee schedule, provider manual, telehealth or remote-monitoring guidance, eligible provider types, places of service, and billing limitations.

03

Managed care

Do not assume state-level policy equals MCO payment. Verify plan contracts, prior authorization, care-management benefits, alternative payment methods, and value-based arrangements separately.

04

Revenue model

Model payer mix, eligible patient volume, realistic utilization, staffing, device/platform expense, and contract-specific reimbursement only after the policy assumptions are verified.

Verified Medicare baseline

CY 2026 national policy, checked August 30, 2026

CMS finalized CY 2026 Physician Fee Schedule policy effective January 1, 2026. CMS currently describes Medicare RPM as connected-device monitoring for acute or chronic conditions, with digitally uploaded physiologic data and program-specific service requirements. The 2026 RPM code set added CPT 99445 and 99470 for lower-day and lower-time monitoring scenarios.

This Medicare baseline is national. It does not establish Georgia Medicaid or MCO coverage, payment, provider eligibility, or billing rules.

Code families

RPM, CCM, and TCM planning reference

These code families identify the services that should be checked against current Medicare and Georgia Medicaid rules. Inclusion here does not mean every code is payable by every payer or provider type.

Remote Patient Monitoring

99453 · 99454 · 99445 · 99457 · 99458 · 99470 · 99091

Verify device eligibility, data collection/transmission requirements, treatment-management time, interactive communication, supervision, and billing frequency.

Chronic Care Management

99490 · 99439 · 99491 · 99437 · 99487 · 99489

Verify patient eligibility, comprehensive care-plan requirements, qualifying clinical staff time, complexity, add-on logic, consent, and overlapping-service rules.

Transitional Care Management

99495 · 99496

Verify discharge eligibility, interactive contact timing, medical decision-making level, face-to-face visit timing, and payer-specific post-discharge requirements.

From reimbursement to implementation

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