Medicare Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring Policy Changes for 2021
This Bulletin is brought to you by AHLA’s Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group.
- December 11, 2020
- Nathaniel Lacktman , Foley & Lardner LLP
On December 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new Medicare policies related to telehealth services, virtual care codes, and remote patient monitoring (RPM). The changes, part of the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule final rule, followed a whirlwind of activity by CMS during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. 2020 unleashed “an explosion in telehealth innovation, and we’re now moving to make many of these changes permanent,” said Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, promising CMS will “keep exploring ways to deliver Americans access to health care in the setting that they and their doctor decide makes sense for them.”
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