Has the Medicare telehealth list changed for 2022?
Question: Has the Medicare telemedicine list changed for 2022?
Answer: As Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to evaluate the inclusion of telehealth services that were temporarily added to the Medicare telehealth services list during the COVID-19 public health emergency, they have finalized that certain services added to the Medicare telehealth services list will remain on the list through December 31, 2023.
This will allow additional time for CMS to evaluate whether each service should be permanently added to the Medicare telehealth services list.
CMS finalized that they will extend, through the end of CY 2023, the inclusion on the Medicare telehealth services list of certain services added temporarily to the telehealth services list that would otherwise have been removed from the list as of the later of the end of the COVID-19 PHE or December 31, 2021. They also have extended inclusion of certain cardiac and intensive cardiac rehabilitation codes through the end of CY 2023. This will allow for more time for CMS to gather data to decide whether or not each telehealth service will be permanently added to the Medicare telehealth services list.
Additionally, CMS is adopting coding and payment for a longer virtual check-in service on a permanent basis.
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