Whether you are building a business aimed at facilitating RTM for healthcare providers or growing a direct-to-consumer RTM practice, you know that reimbursement requirements significantly impact several of your most important business decisions.
Read MoreImplementation of CMS’ Behavioral Health Strategy in 2023: Behavioral Health Integration G-code for Clinical Psychologists and Clinical Social Workers, and Opportunity for Clinical Staff to Provide Behavioral Health Services under General Supervision of Physicians and Non-Physician Practitioners
On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2022 (the “Final 2022 MPFS” or the “Final Rule”). As we noted in our July article discussing the Proposed 2022 MPFS, CMS made some significant proposed changes to allow for audio-only telehealth in some limited circumstances. In addition, the agency also proposed to enable remote “direct supervision,” which would allow practitioners to supervise clinical staff billing incident to their services as long as they could be available by audio/video communication as necessary.
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