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11 New Telehealth Services Will Be Payable By CMS During Pandemic, Agency Says

Reimbursements will be available via telemedicine for neurostimulator analysis and cardiac rehabilitation, among other services

 
• By Sue Darcey

The US Medicare agency will allow reimbursements for a bevy of new telemedicine services during the COVID-19 public health emergency, it announced on 14 October.

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The CMS will pay for 11 additional telehealth services during the pandemic

The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is increasing the number of telehealth services it will reimburse by 11 new services, the agency announced on 14 October. Among the new categories of services the CMS will cover are neurostimulator analysis and programming, and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation.

Among the 11 services the agency will now reimburse are telemedicine services for intensive cardiac rehabilitation with exercise (payment code G0422), pulmonary rehabilitation with exercise (G0424) and analysis of neurostimulator devices without programming (95970), according to an

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