Who Can Provide Telehealth Services?

CMS has specific requirements for anyone engaging in telehealth services. Be sure you understand all the requirements. The DME MACs have created a short video to help suppliers understand all the requirements.

The video, Medicare Minute℠: Telehealth Benefit, discusses the rules of telehealth, who is eligible to provide telehealth and how to bill for telehealth.

A few key points to remember about telehealth:

• There must be real time video and audio interaction between patient and supplier.
• In order to be qualified as an official telehealth originating site, there must be specific geographic and site requirements met. Learn more here.
• An originating site must be qualified each year. Originating sites are not patient's homes.
• Official telehealth interactions must also include a qualified distant site, which is typically another supplier's location.

The Medicare Claims Processing Manual provides additional details about payments for telehealth.

What does this mean for you?

If you are considering telehealth, be sure to review the specific and rigid requirements to be qualified. Review the video to obtain more information.