CMS To Pay Clinicians For Telehealth Services During COVID-19 Outbreak

In a change likely to expand use of telemedicine, clinicians will be reimbursed for remote conversations and services to Medicare beneficiaries for the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak, CMS administrator Seema Verma said on 17 March.

Female doctor in her surgery office with headset in front of her laptop, an x-ray of a foot in hand, talking with a senior patient, telemedicine concept

The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare telehealth coverage so seniors can communicate with their physicians and other providers in their homes without risking exposure to the coronavirus, the agency announced on 17 March.

The relaxation of usual telemedicine reimbursement regulations under what’s known as a 1135 waiver is retroactive to 6 March

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