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New Reimbursement Opportunities for Digital Mental Health Treatment in 2025: CMS’ Final Rule
New Reimbursement Opportunities for Digital Mental Health Treatment in 2025: CMS’ Final Rule

See what the final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2025 has to say about Digital Mental Health Treatment

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Remote Monitoring, Medicare Physician Fee ScheduleCarrie Nixonremote patient monitoring, Remote Therapeutic Monitoring, Remote Monitoring, remote care, Telehealth, Medicare, Teleheath, Digital Health, behavioral health integration, mpfs, medicare physician fee schedule, remote therapeutic monitoring, digital health, mental health, telemental health, DMHT
Additional Reimbursement for Chronic Care Management and Principal Care Management Finalized in the 2022 MPFS
Additional Reimbursement for Chronic Care Management and Principal Care Management Finalized in the 2022 MPFS

In the Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“MPFS”) for 2022 (the “Final Rule”) issued on November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) added five new CPT codes in the categories of Chronic Care Management (“CCM”) and Principal Care Management (“PCM”) and increased reimbursement for already existing codes in the same categories. Despite stakeholder feedback, CMS refrained from making any changes to the existing rules for obtaining beneficiary consent for CCM and PCM.

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Medicare Physician Fee ScheduleKaitlyn O'Connor and Reema TanejaCCM, PCM, Chronic Care Management, Principal Care Management, MPFS, 2022, 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, medicare physician fee schedule, 99437
Under 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Physician Assistants Will Be Paid Directly for Services
Under 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Physician Assistants Will Be Paid Directly for Services

On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released its Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2022 (the “Final 2022 MPFS”), revising certain payment policies for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries by healthcare practitioners. These policies take effect on January 1, 2022.

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Medicare Physician Fee ScheduleCarrie Nixon and Casey Pappphysician coverage, MPFS, 2022, medicare physician fee schedule
Remote Therapeutic Monitoring in the 2022 MPFS: How CMS Can (and Should) Get it Right
Remote Therapeutic Monitoring in the 2022 MPFS: How CMS Can (and Should) Get it Right

This is our take on the approach CMS should follow in improving and finalizing the RTM codes and associated reimbursement that improve patient outcomes and lower the overall cost of care. It is based on our extensive work with remote patient monitoring and care management digital health companies along with the physician practices who use the existing care management codes – including Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”), Chronic Care Management, Principal Care Management, and Behavioral Health Integration.

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Remote MonitoringCarrie Nixon2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Remote Therapeutic Monitoring, remote patient monitoring, Remote Monitoring, virtual care, RPM, RTM, MPFS, 2022, proposed rule, proposed medicare physician fee schedule, medicare physician fee schedule, CMS