COVID 19 & Importance of Telehealth Billing
                     COVID 19 & IMPORTANCE OF TELEHEALTH 
BILLING
Though telehealth medicine exists from ages, COVID-19 has 
given it a new look. With social distancing imparting in people’s 
life and made compulsory, it gave rise to tele-health medicine to 
avoid the spread of the virus among patients. During the COVID-
19 pandemic, the American Medical Association introduced 
many changes in medical billing and coding of telehealth 
medicine, which made practices, hospitals, clinics, DME billing 
and several other healthcare centres, struggle with billing. Let’s 
look back at the importance of telehealth billing and what 
practices have to follow or change in the present scenario.
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Importance of Telemedicine Billing
Telemedicine is considered a safe and effective healthcare 
delivery model, with payers and government gradually extending 
their coverage and payment in an effort to ensure public access to 
healthcare is made easy in a pandemic condition that the whole 
nation is experiencing. The more the safest treatment to patients 
and care, the more restrictions and limitations have been imposed 
on medicine and telehealth billing as well.
With constantly changing regulatory policies leading to lag behind 
advancements in technological potentiality, even telemedicine is 
not exceptional from it. Moreover, with drastic changes brought in 
the accessibility of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic, 
huge impact is shown in reimbursements which are obstructed 
due to geographic restrictions, lack of payment parity, and a 
narrow approach in policy coverage.
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Geographic restrictions
For payers like Medicare or Medicaid’s convenience, AMA 
has excluded many areas that are outside a Metropolitan 
Statistical Area or in a Health Professional Shortage Area 
i.e. due to disability or lack of transportation.
Coverage restrictions
Along with Medicare, several other commercial payers have 
applied for coverage restrictions on telehealth services in 
order to avoid potential concerns of overutilization, fraud, 
and low-quality patient care. Commercial coverage 
restrictions have come in both limitation of services and 
restriction to a wide range of network providers.
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Payment restrictions
Commercial insurance payers have indirectly limited the access to 
telemedicine in the form of fee schedule. Before COVID-19, the norms 
for telemedicine did not expect a face-to-face consultation of patients 
with the physician. But it has been changed completely now and 
practices had to invest in the necessary technology to expand their own 
telehealth offerings to patients, which was actually a financial 
disincentive for practices.
Regulatory viability
Medicare’s regulations for telehealth billing and reimbursement are 
relatively stable nationwide though they are quite stringent, but the 
coverage for commercial and Medicaid telemedicine services across the 
Nation is decided by a variable patchwork of variant states and payer 
regulations. These consistent variations in coverage and payment 
policies can make your practice’s staffs confuse, commit mistakes in 
medical coding and billing, resulting in the loss of revenue.
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Conclusion
The challenges faced by many practices to manage their 
telehealth billing cannot be overcome with limited and low-
skilled staff. In order to stay updated to the changing 
regulations of payers, it is important to take guidance from 
an expert medical billing company. More than we look at 
benefits of telemedicine, it is also crucial to look at how 
challenging and important the telemedicine billing is. Simply 
providing tele-based treatment may not yield you revenue. 
We recommend you get in touch with 24/7 Medical Billing 
Services to ease out your telehealth medical billing and 
make your revenue stable. To reach us instantly, call us at 
+1-888-502-0537 or drop us an email at 
[email protected].
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ABOUT US
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support physicians, hospitals, medical institutions and group practices with our end to 
end medical billing solutions. We help you earn more revenue with our quick and 
affordable services. Our customized Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solutions 
allow physicians to attract additional revenue and reduce administrative burden or 
losses.
• Our company was founded in 2005 and is now a leading organization of highly 
motivated and certified coders & billers in the US medical billing industry. Our current 
employee strength is 500+ and we have ambitious plans to grow more rapidly.
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& enrolment in about one to four weeks time depending on the complexity of the 
project. We have certified trainers with 10+ years of experience to train the 
newcomers so they can get acquainted with the specialty jargons & stay updated with 
the recent coding developments.
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