CMS Loosens Telehealth Rules, Provider Supervision Requirements for Behavioral Health

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized new rules aimed at expanding access to behavioral health for Medicare beneficiaries.

CMS announced it finalized rules that allow for greater flexibility in billing and supervising certain types of providers as well as permanently covering some telehealth services provided in Medicare beneficiaries’ homes, Behavioral Health Business reports.

CMS also created new codes for general behavioral health integration that tracks services provided by clinical psychologists and licensed clinical social workers in primary care settings. A psychiatric diagnostic evaluation may serve as the initiating visit for the new general BHI service. Read more.

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