Medicare Physician Fee Schedule For 2021 Proposes Finalizing Expanded Telehealth Services

In the 2021 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said it intended to finalize expansions to telehealth services that were temporarily expanded in the spring of 2020 during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency (PHE). The expansions relate to specific services that will be added to the telehealth list either on a permanent or temporary basis, and to the types of professionals that can deliver the services. The proposed rule does not address temporary policy changes during the PHE that expanded access to telehealth to all beneficiaries and allowed . . .