The below information was received today 12/26/2024, from Betsy Nicoletti
Medicare practitioners and patients can continue to perform/receive telehealth services as they have since the start of the pandemic for the next three months.
The first keep-the-government-open bill from Dec. 20 extended Medicare telehealth for two years. It didn’t pass. The bill that passed and was signed into law extends telehealth for Medicare patients as we know it now until March 31, 2025. Then, Congress must ACT again or we have the return to the pre-pandemic rules
Does this mean we can use the new CPT telehealth codes 98000-98015?
NOT FOR MEDICARE PATIENTS
98000-98015 have a status indicator of INVALID
Continue to use office visit codes with POS 02 or POS 10
And Other Payers?
Sadly, each payer can make their own telehealth rules.