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A Quick Guide to Each Payer’s Coronavirus Changes and Waivers

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial and government payers have issued waivers and policy changes to help physicians care for as many patients as possible. 

But each plan has different effective and expiration dates for telemedicine, testing, and treatment changes. And most commercial plans can opt in or out of government-program adjustments such as waiving cost-share for treatment. 

If you’re trying to keep track of each payer’s policies, the Texas Medical Association has created a chart that shows when each change began – and is scheduled to end – for government and commercial plans. 

The chart includes information on Medicaid and Medicare as well as Texas Department of Insurance (TDI)-regulated commercial plans and ERISA (federally regulated) policies. It is based on details posted on each plan’s website and will be updated frequently. TMA recommends you contact each patient’s plan directly. 

The chart is one of several tools TMA has published to help you navigate the constantly changing payer landscape during the pandemic. 

TMA’s Practice Viability Toolkit details multiple ways to keep your practice’s finances healthy. It includes a section on each payer’s policies. 

The webinar, Payer Updates in the Time of COVID-19, offers guidance in sorting through the inconsistent patchwork of varying COVID-19 billing and coding policies. It is accredited for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. 

You can find the payer chart, toolkit, webinar, and other resources and information on the practice viability section of the TMA COVID-19 Resource Center.

POET Update 8/19/2020: BCBS Expands Telemedicine through 12/31/2020.

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May 12, 2020

TMA has a great chart to help answer your telehealth questions. Here is the link…https://www.texmed.org/uploadedFiles/Current/2016_Practice_Help/Health_Information_Technology/Telemedicine/Telemedicine%20Quick%20Reference%20Chart%20for%20Payers.pdf

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Part B News shared an article titled ” Telehealth expands: Find the full list of extra codes for COVID-19 crisis”. This article is dated April 6th. Thought it might be useful. Find it in the InK files.

The link below will take you to a spreadsheet I found on MGMA. It covers the nation so more information than you may need. However, POET is in hopes of creating a pared down version using this format. Meanwhile hopefully this will be helpful to all of you until we have ours completed.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Y1jSR1LfAxto1C_X6ZOeyPQe6RWHU8cgOuVNxFRIXA/edit#gid=0