Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

If you utilize telehealth services and provide care for your patients via the popular technology, that information will now show up on your Care Compare profile.

Reminder: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) greatly expanded coverage of telehealth services in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). That expansion ignited a renaissance in the virtual care realm with usage increasing “30-fold,” according to a Medicare telemedicine snapshot from September 2021, CMS says.

Now: The agency has “implemented a telehealth indicator on Medicare Care Compare and in the Provider Data Catalog (PDC) to expand the information available to patients and caregivers when choosing doctors or clinicians,” CMS says in online guidance. The new indicator not only lets patients know which providers offer telehealth services, but also aligns with “CMS’ health equity goals,” the agency notes.

Review the update at www.cms.gov/files/document/telehealth-indicator-medicare-care-compare-doctors-and-clinicians-public-reporting.pdf.