Medicare Telehealth Adding Services
Guidance for submission of requests for adding services to the list of Medicare telehealth services.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: February 11, 2020
Requests for adding services to the list of Medicare telehealth services may be submitted on an ongoing basis. Requests must be submitted and received no later than February 10th of each calendar year to be considered for the following year's proposed rule (i.e. requests must be received by February 10, 2022, to be considered during the 2023 rulemaking cycle that establishes physician fee schedule rates for January 1, 2023).
Requests to add or delete services should be mailed to:
Division of Practitioner Services
Mail Stop: C4-03-06
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
7500 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850
Attention: Telehealth Review Process
Electronic requests to add or delete services
As an alternative to regular mail, requests may be submitted electronically to the Telehealth Requests resource mailbox. These requests also must be received by February 10th to be considered during the following calendar year's physician fee schedule rulemaking cycle (i.e. requests must be received by February 10, 2022 to be considered during the 2023 rulemaking cycle that establishes physician fee schedule rates for January 1, 2023). Please note that if you choose to send any attachments:
- File attachments must be smaller than 5 MB.
- We recommend using portable document format .
Requests to add or delete services can be e-mailed to:
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