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Hawaii Medicaid & Medicare Reimbursement for RPM, CCM & TCM

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

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Reviewed: September 28, 2026
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Hawaii policy summary. Hawaii has a comparatively strong operational reimbursement baseline for RPM, CCM and TCM planning, but each claim still requires date-of-service and payer-specific verification. The current Med-QUEST Medicaid fee-for-service schedule is dated June 1, 2026 and lists CPT 99445 at $53.74, 99453 at $22.29, 99454 at $49.24, 99457 at $29.38 and 99458 at $29.38; it lists the 2026 RPM treatment-management code 99470 at $0.00. Med-QUEST expressly warns that a $0.00 fee does not necessarily mean that a code is not covered, that the schedule does not apply uniformly to all provider types, and that the fee schedule may change without notice. Accordingly, neither appearance on the schedule nor a displayed amount should be treated as a universal payment guarantee. QI-2527 / FFS 25-12 / CCS-2509 remains the current cross-program telehealth implementation guidance and applies to QUEST Integration health plans, fee-for-service providers, Community Care Services, FQHCs and RHCs. Med-QUEST's current 2026 provider-memo index now lists QI-2620 / FFS 26-08 / CCS-2604 on third-party authorizations for grievance and appeals, while QI-2614 remains the Medicaid fee-for-service rate update effective July 1, 2026; the index still does not list a later telehealth replacement than QI-2527. It requires telehealth services to be clinically appropriate, consistent with the full procedure-code description and furnished by a provider eligible to bill Hawaii Medicaid; QI providers are directed to their contracted MCO for plan-specific billing guidance. That distinction is important because Med-QUEST states that most Hawaii Medicaid services are delivered through five QUEST Integration MCOs: AlohaCare, HMSA, Kaiser Permanente, Ohana Health Plan and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan. Claims timing is now an explicit collectibility gate on this page. Hawaii Administrative Rule 17-1739.1-16 requires fee-for-service providers to submit claims within 12 months from providing care or services and generally requires a request for reconsideration of the payment amount or claim adjudication within 60 days of the Medicaid payment or adjudication date. The rule provides defined exceptions rather than an open-ended late-filing right. For delays caused by efforts to obtain coverage from Medicare or another source of third-party liability, the provider must have filed timely with that source and the Medicaid claim must be received within six months of the final disposition of coverage. Other post-deadline acceptance pathways require the specific circumstances described in the rule, such as a court order, administrative-hearing decision, or approved corrective action, with written documentation of the delay. Med-QUEST's live Form 240 also continues to state the 60-day reconsideration deadline. A covered RPM, CCM or TCM service should therefore not be treated as collectible revenue if the organization has missed the applicable claim or reconsideration window without a documented exception. Prior authorization is another operational collectibility control when the relevant medical item or service requires it. Med-QUEST states that, effective January 1, 2026, standard medical-benefit prior authorization requests are adjudicated within seven calendar days and expedited requests within 72 hours, with annual public metrics required beginning March 31, 2026. These timeframes do not themselves establish that a particular RPM, CCM or TCM service requires authorization, so verify the applicable benefit, plan and authorization rule before billing. Provider readiness remains separate: Med-QUEST requires providers to maintain enrollment through HOKU, and its Provider Exclusion/Reinstatement page was updated September 10, 2026; participating providers must search Hawaii's exclusion list monthly and the federal OIG exclusion list at least annually, including before hiring staff or contractors. Dual-eligible routing also deserves explicit verification: for 2026, newly enrolling dual-eligible members may enroll only in a FIDE SNP offered by the same organization as their QUEST Integration plan, while legacy HIDE-SNP members enrolled by December 31, 2025 may remain in their existing arrangements. Before billing or revenue modeling, verify the exact date-of-service code, current fee-schedule amount, provider type, active HOKU enrollment, exclusion screening, member eligibility, QI plan, authorization, modifiers, place of service, documentation, timely filing, reconsideration deadline and any Medicare-first or dual-eligible coordination requirement. Treat the physically verified Hawaii workbook as planning material only when it agrees with the live Med-QUEST sources and the applicable claims-lifecycle rules.

Freshness window: recheck the official source by October 5, 2026, or sooner after a material payer change. Effective/source context: Hawaii Med-QUEST continues to publish a Medicaid fee-for-service fee schedule dated June 1, 2026 that lists established RPM codes plus 2026 CPT 99445, while 99470 appears at $0.00 and therefore must not be interpreted as a simple noncoverage determination. Current telehealth implementation remains QI-2527 / FFS 25-12 / CCS-2509 dated December 8, 2025. The current 2026 provider-memo index now lists QI-2620 / FFS 26-08 / CCS-2604 on third-party authorizations for grievance and appeals, while QI-2614 remains the Medicaid fee-for-service rate update effective July 1, 2026; the index still does not list a later telehealth replacement than QI-2527. Most Hawaii Medicaid services are delivered through five QUEST Integration managed-care plans, so fee-for-service amounts are a planning reference rather than a universal managed-care payment guarantee. Hawaii Administrative Rule 17-1739.1-16 makes timely filing a direct collectibility control for fee-for-service claims: claims generally must be submitted within 12 months of the date of service, reconsideration of a payment amount or claim adjudication generally must be requested within 60 days, and a late claim tied to Medicare or other third-party-liability processing is accepted only under the rule's documented exception conditions, including receipt within six months of final disposition by Medicare or the other liable source. Provider billing readiness also includes the September 10, 2026 Med-QUEST exclusion-list update and the state requirement to screen Hawaii exclusions monthly. When a medical item or service requires prior authorization, Med-QUEST applies the 2026 federal-aligned standard of seven calendar days for standard requests and 72 hours for expedited requests. Primary reimbursement policy source: Hawaii Med-QUEST - Current Medicaid Fee-for-Service Fee Schedule, as of June 1, 2026

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

October 1, 2026 eligibility transition: verify the member on the date of service

Federal Medicaid and CHIP matching rules change for certain noncitizen eligibility categories beginning October 1, 2026. CMS instructed states to redetermine potentially affected current beneficiaries by that date. State implementation and any state-funded coverage pathways can differ, so this notice does not replace Hawaii eligibility guidance. For RPM, CCM, and TCM collectibility, re-check the member's active eligibility, payer, delivery system, and managed-care assignment for the actual date of service rather than carrying a pre-transition result forward.

CMS implementation notice State Health Official Letter 26-001

October 1, 2026 coding and claim-edit transition: use date-of-service rules

CMS has released FY 2027 ICD-10-CM codes for patient encounters from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027, plus the October 2026 HCPCS quarterly file, which CMS updated September 23, 2026. RPM, CCM, and TCM are billed with CPT/HCPCS service codes, but diagnosis coding and effective-dated HCPCS changes can affect medical-necessity edits, authorization, claim routing, risk adjustment, and claim acceptance. For dates of service on or after October 1, use the diagnosis and HCPCS sets applicable to that date and check Hawaii Medicaid and the member's managed-care plan for any separate claims-system or companion-guide instructions.

CMS has also posted Medicare and Medicaid National Correct Coding Initiative updates effective October 1, 2026, with Q4 change files posted September 1, 2026 and Medicare practitioner and hospital PTP production files posted September 2. The October releases include procedure-to-procedure edits, medically unlikely edits, and Medicare add-on-code edits. Do not infer that an RPM, CCM, or TCM code became covered, noncovered, payable, or denied merely because it appears in an NCCI file; evaluate the exact code pair, units, modifier indicator, payer, provider, and date of service. CMS expressly notes that a code's presence in a Medicaid NCCI edit does not establish coverage by a state Medicaid program.

FY 2027 ICD-10 files October 2026 HCPCS update Medicare NCCI Q4 edits Medicaid NCCI Q4 edits

What to verify in Hawaii

Build the reimbursement picture in layers

Medicare baseline

Confirm the applicable physician fee schedule, MAC/locality, clinician QP or non-QP status, code descriptors, supervision rules, device/data requirements, time thresholds, and any annual coding changes.

Hawaii Medicaid program

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

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.

Claims lifecycle

Check timely-filing, clean-claim, corrected-claim, reconsideration, appeal, recoupment, and payer-specific denial-recovery windows before treating an otherwise covered service as collectible.

Eligibility & coordination

Verify member eligibility and plan assignment for the date of service, then confirm Medicare, commercial insurance, other third-party liability, crossover, and payer-of-last-resort rules when they apply.

Revenue model

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

Verified Medicare baseline

CY 2026 national policy, checked September 29, 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. CMS's current fraud-prevention guidance tells providers to furnish all three main RPM components — education/setup, device supply, and treatment management — rather than treating an isolated setup event as a complete monitoring program. The 2026 RPM code set added CPT 99445 and 99470 for lower-day and lower-time monitoring scenarios. CMS's current Medicare RPM guidance also says an ordering physician or other qualified health care provider is not required for RPM services and ordering-provider information is not required on the Medicare claim; do not carry that Medicare claim-field rule into Hawaii Medicaid, an MCO, or an internal clinical protocol without confirming that payer's own ordering, referral, enrollment, and documentation requirements.

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

September 2026 CMS billing-risk signal

Apply claim-integrity checks before projecting RPM revenue

CMS's Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership September 2026 analysis reviewed high-risk RPM/RTM outliers from January 2025 through May 2026 and flagged patterns involving excessive frequency, initial setup without subsequent monitoring, and services billed during inpatient or skilled-nursing-facility stays. These are program-integrity risk signals, not new Hawaii coverage rules. Use them as workflow controls, then apply the state and plan-specific rules above.

CMS HFPP September 2026 RPM/RTM analysis →

Quarterly PFS timing safeguard

For a date of service of October 15, 2026, the applicable 2026 Medicare release is October 2026 (RVU26D / PFREV26D). Use the PFS release applicable to the actual date of service, not simply the newest file CMS has posted.

CMS 2026 final rule CMS RPM guidance RVU26D RVU file PFREV26D payment file CMS PFS locality lookup

2027 Medicare policy watch · proposal only

Do not apply proposed CY 2027 RPM rules to 2026 dates of service

CMS's CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule would change remote-monitoring operations if finalized, including a separately reportable initiating visit when RPM or RTM begins, an established-patient requirement for RTM, and limits on payment when clinical-staff monitoring work is performed by contractors rather than staff employed by the billing practice. CMS also proposed valuation changes and sought comment on a possible future four-G-code bundled structure. The public comment period closed September 14, 2026; these provisions remain proposals unless CMS adopts them in a final rule. For current Hawaii planning, keep using CY 2026 Medicare requirements plus the state and plan rules above for the actual date of service.

CMS 2027 proposal summary

Code families

RPM, CCM, and TCM planning reference

These code families identify the services that should be checked against current Medicare and Hawaii 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. For 2026 Medicare planning, 99445 covers the 2-15-day device-supply tier and should not be reported with 99454 for the same monitoring period; verify payer-specific adoption before applying that rule to Medicaid or an MCO.

Chronic Care Management

99490 · 99439 · 99491 · 99437 · 99487 · 99489 · G0506

Verify patient eligibility, initiating-visit and comprehensive care-plan requirements, qualifying clinical staff time, complexity, add-on logic, consent, and overlapping-service rules. Medicare may allow HCPCS G0506 once with a qualifying initiating visit when the billing practitioner personally performs extensive assessment and care planning beyond the usual initiating-visit work; do not assume the same pathway applies to Medicaid or an MCO.

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.

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