Medicare Telehealth Review
Guidance for beneficiaries on the review of submitted telehealth service requests and the outcomes available.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: March 05, 2012
Our review of submitted requests to add services may result in the following outcomes:
- Adding an existing HCPCS code to the list of Medicare telehealth services.
- Determining that the requested service is already described by an existing telehealth service.
- Creating a new HCPCS code to describe the requested service and adding it to the list of Medicare telehealth services.
- Requesting further information.
- Notifying the requestor that a national coverage determination is necessary before a decision to accept or reject a proposal can be made.
- Rejecting the request.
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