Telemedicine and HIPAA: Avoid Compliance Nightmares
You know what a pain HIPAA compliance is for your office. Well, significantly magnify that pain, and that’s telemedicine HIPAA compliance – unless you know what to look for...
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Telehealth Security: Protect Patient Information and Your Practice
Your practice is responsible for protecting your patients’ ePHI at both the origination site and the distant site. You must ensure that both locations have appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards in place as outlined in the HIPAA Security Rule...
Add Telehealth Services to Improve Your Practice Success
Whether you’re on the fence about implementing telehealth services or trying to make the case to other decision makers, proving the return on investment can be...
Medicare (CMS) Telemedicine Originating Site
What does Medicare consider an originating site for Telemedicine services? Medicare (CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]) has some guidance to help you identify what might qualify as an originating site. You will need to verify with your other payers if you are dealing with someone other than Medicare. The Medicare originating site locations […]
Avoid Telemedicine Claim Denials by Knowing Your Site
In 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has added even more services to its approved telemedicine list, and you can be sure that the agency will continue this trend in coming years. That’s great news for both your potential patients and your practice. But the coding is hardly straightforward, and you have […]
New CPT Stars Point to Telemedicine … and Potentially More Medicare Reimbursement
If you’ve opened your CPT® 2017 manual, you’ve noticed there’s a new symbol in front of some of the codes — a star. But what does this mean, and how does it affect your coding and reimbursement? The big news is that Medicare is paying for more of these services in 2017 — if you […]