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Pennsylvania Medicaid & Medicare Reimbursement for RPM, CCM & TCM

Use this page as a structured planning reference for Pennsylvania. 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 27, 2026
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Pennsylvania policy summary. Pennsylvania reimbursement planning requires a clear separation between fee-for-service telemedicine parity and managed-care RPM coverage. DHS states that its Medical Assistance online fee schedule is updated daily and should be used for the most recent fee-for-service service information; the downloadable outpatient schedule is only a quarterly snapshot and was most recently refreshed September 3, 2026. The Pennsylvania Department of State confirms that DHS continues to reimburse otherwise-covered Medical Assistance fee-for-service services delivered through telemedicine at the same rate as the corresponding in-person service, but that parity statement does not by itself establish payment of every Medicare RPM code. For managed care, Act 42 defines telemedicine to include remote patient monitoring and applies its Medical Assistance and CHIP managed-care coverage requirements beginning January 1, 2026. DHS currently lists Physical HealthChoices memo MCS-02-2026-004, Coverage of Services Rendered via Asynchronous Telemedicine, as active, and the Community HealthChoices 2026-03 memo likewise requires qualifying asynchronous telemedicine coverage. The Physical HealthChoices memo identifies 99091 and 99457 among the minimum code set MCOs should pay when services satisfy Act 42, says plans may cover additional qualifying codes, requires claims systems to be configured for compliant payment, and directs plans to review prior claims for dates of service on or after January 1, 2026. This creates a concrete implementation and retrospective-claims check for organizations relying on managed-care RPM revenue, not a statewide fee-for-service rate guarantee. The Department of State FAQ also retains an older sentence saying MCOs may but are not presently required to allow telemedicine; that wording is temporally stale now that the same FAQ and the active 2026 DHS operations memos confirm the January 1, 2026 managed-care requirement. These managed-care requirements do not establish one statewide MCO rate, and Physical HealthChoices plan availability varies by region, so verify the member's current plan and contract rather than relying on a generic statewide payer assumption. PROMISe enrollment is also a separate operational control: DHS states that Medicaid enrollment does not guarantee participation in an individual MCO network, and providers must revalidate Medical Assistance enrollment every five years, with DHS advising submission at least 60 days before the revalidation date. Pennsylvania also posted MA Bulletin 99-26-06, Off-Cycle Revalidation of High-Risk Providers, on August 21, 2026. Organizations that may fall into a high-risk provider category should therefore review the current bulletin and their PROMISe notices before treating enrollment as stable for revenue forecasting. Before modeling RPM, CCM or TCM revenue, verify the exact date-of-service code in the live MA fee schedule, the applicable provider/program manual, active PROMISe enrollment for the service location, modifiers, medical necessity, documentation and authorization rules, and the member's applicable Physical HealthChoices or Community HealthChoices plan contract. Do not assume newer Medicare RPM codes 99445 or 99470 are payable by Pennsylvania Medical Assistance without current Pennsylvania code-level authority. Collections timing is a separate control: Pennsylvania DHS states that an original fee-for-service claim generally must be received within 180 days of the date of service, while a rejected original claim generally must be resubmitted within 365 days. DHS also instructs providers to verify claim receipt through the 13-digit Internal Control Number on the Remittance Advice; if a submitted claim fails to appear on an RA within 45 days, or remains pending without an approved or rejected disposition after 45 days, the claim should be resubmitted. When a provider is relying on a third-party-insurer exception to the 180-day limit, DHS requires the provider to have requested third-party payment within 60 days of the date of service and to submit the exception request within 60 days of the third party denial or approval. Do not model an otherwise-covered service as collectible revenue without a timely-filing workflow and documentation for any exception. Also treat eligibility and patient-volume assumptions as time-sensitive. Pennsylvania DHS says some noncitizens may no longer receive Medicaid as of October 1, 2026, for categories that no longer meet the federal eligibility rules; lawful permanent residents and several other protected categories remain eligible under Pennsylvania DHS guidance. DHS says it will review status before October 1 and send notice when coverage is ending. This does not mean every noncitizen beneficiary loses coverage, but it creates a near-term date-of-service eligibility and payer-verification checkpoint for reimbursement planning. Separately, treat 2027 patient-volume assumptions as time-sensitive: on September 10, 2026 DHS said nearly 700,000 Pennsylvanians would begin receiving notices about January 1, 2027 federal Medicaid changes, including six-month renewals for some adults and work/community-engagement requirements for some expansion adults. DHS also says retroactive Medicaid coverage for new applicants will narrow beginning January 1, 2027: one month for Medicaid expansion adults and two months for other recipients, compared with up to three months today. These eligibility changes do not alter a procedure code's reimbursement rule, but they can change enrollment continuity, payer mix, retroactive collectibility, and the realistic number of covered patients available to a reimbursement-supported care model.

Freshness window: recheck the official source by October 1, 2026, or sooner after a material payer change. Effective/source context: Pennsylvania DHS continues to direct providers to its daily-updated Medical Assistance online fee schedule for the most current fee-for-service code status; the quarterly downloadable outpatient schedule was refreshed September 3, 2026. Act 42 managed-care telemedicine requirements have applied since January 1, 2026, and the active 2026 Physical HealthChoices and Community HealthChoices asynchronous-telemedicine operations memos continue to identify 99091 and 99457 in the minimum qualifying RPM-related managed-care code set. The Physical HealthChoices memo also directs plans to configure claims systems for compliant payment and review claims for dates of service on or after January 1, 2026. PROMISe enrollment must remain current by service location. The Department of State telemedicine FAQ still contains an older sentence saying MCOs may but are not presently required to allow telemedicine; because that same FAQ and the current 2026 DHS operations memos confirm the January 1, 2026 managed-care requirement, do not rely on the legacy sentence as current policy. OMAP What's New was reviewed through September 27, 2026; its latest listed activity remains September 16, 2026, when DHS added the October 2026 Remittance Advice Date, and no newer telemedicine-specific MA bulletin is posted. Pennsylvania DHS now gives an October 1, 2026 state-specific eligibility warning for certain noncitizens: some refugees, asylees, humanitarian parolees, trafficking or domestic-violence victims, people with deportation withheld, and people granted conditional entry who do not have qualifying LPR status may no longer receive federally funded Medicaid as of October 1. DHS says it will review status before the cutover and send notice when coverage is ending. This is not a blanket termination rule for all noncitizens, but it makes date-of-service eligibility and payer rechecks especially important around October 1. DHS also posted MA Bulletin 99-26-06, Off-Cycle Revalidation of High-Risk Providers, on August 21, 2026, adding a current provider-readiness control beyond the normal five-year revalidation cycle. Pennsylvania has also begun September 2026 outreach ahead of January 1, 2027 Medicaid eligibility and renewal changes that can affect covered patient volume. DHS says retroactive Medicaid coverage for new applicants will also narrow beginning January 1, 2027, from up to three months today to one month for Medicaid expansion adults and two months for other recipients, making front-end eligibility verification and timely enrollment support more important to collectibility. For fee-for-service claims, DHS states original claims must generally be received within 180 days after the date of service and rejected original claims must generally be resubmitted within 365 days. DHS also instructs providers to verify receipt through the 13-digit Internal Control Number on the Remittance Advice and to resubmit a claim if it fails to appear on an RA within 45 days, or if a pending claim still has not appeared as approved or rejected after 45 days. A 180-day exception tied to third-party insurer billing requires the provider to have sought third-party payment within 60 days of service and to submit the exception within 60 days of the insurer denial or approval. Primary reimbursement policy source: Pennsylvania DHS - Medical Assistance Fee Schedule

October 1 eligibility checkpoint

Re-verify Medicaid eligibility and payer assignment for October service dates

Pennsylvania DHS says certain noncitizen eligibility categories may lose federal Medicaid eligibility beginning October 1, 2026, while lawful permanent residents, Cuban/Haitian entrants, COFA migrants, and lawfully present people under 21 or recently pregnant remain eligible under the published rules. Do not carry a September eligibility result forward into October reimbursement forecasts. DHS says affected recipients may receive a request to document qualifying immigration status, and coverage may end starting October 1 if required documents are not submitted on time. For dates of service on or after October 1, re-check active Medical Assistance eligibility, the member's delivery system and managed-care assignment, and any coverage notice before treating RPM, CCM, or TCM revenue as collectible. This is an eligibility and payer-routing safeguard; it does not change a procedure code's underlying coverage or payment rule.

Pennsylvania DHS - Noncitizen Eligibility

Legacy workbook check: matching PA 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania

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.

Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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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