Telemedicine Billing and Coding

Telemedicine Billing and Coding
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Telemedicine Pays: Billing and Coding
Summary of the article
Bajowal, Milosch, and Bansal (2020) highlight the increased need for telemedicine that the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced. The article provided the status of telemedicine before the pandemic struck the world in March 2020, when it was declared a global pandemic. The situations forced several people to seek telemedicine. However, these arrangements were different from the pre-COVD-19 arrangements when telemedicine primarily targeted the people living outside Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) and Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA). According to Bajowal, Milosch, and Bansal (2020), the biggest fear concerning telemedicine is reimbursements. With different states having different healthcare reimbursements policies, syncing the payment process when the telemedicine practitioner is from a foreign jurisdiction has become a problem. Secondly, the article also points out the lack of better billing plans due to uncertainties in insurance c...