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Given the ongoing pandemic we are trying to avoid having people come to the hospital. I’m a medium private practice and do preop consults as requested (mostly high risk/complex OB but a few other things). We usually have them come in and a partner sees them on the fly. Not a great setup.
Now we have an opportunity to change things up. CMS has relaxed a lot of the TeleHealth rules (can be done from home, patient doesn’t have to live in a critical access area) and I was wondering if any docs out there are doing Telehealth visits. What I have found on the ASA and CMS websites are to bill as a 60 minute critical care consult (G0508 CPT code). I have reservations about doing that routinely but honestly the coordination for the high risk / cardiac OB cases merits a critical care review and I frequently spend that much time in review/patient discussion/interdisciplinary conversations.
The idea is to get potentially some reimbursement above zero which is what we have did before. Anyone out there doing this sort of stuff? Thanks.
Now we have an opportunity to change things up. CMS has relaxed a lot of the TeleHealth rules (can be done from home, patient doesn’t have to live in a critical access area) and I was wondering if any docs out there are doing Telehealth visits. What I have found on the ASA and CMS websites are to bill as a 60 minute critical care consult (G0508 CPT code). I have reservations about doing that routinely but honestly the coordination for the high risk / cardiac OB cases merits a critical care review and I frequently spend that much time in review/patient discussion/interdisciplinary conversations.
The idea is to get potentially some reimbursement above zero which is what we have did before. Anyone out there doing this sort of stuff? Thanks.