The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services added 11 codes to the list of telehealth services payable under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). Coverage which are retroactive to March 1, 2020, and is effective for the duration of the public health emergency (PHE) for COVID-19.

Alex Azar has once again renewed the public health emergency (PHE) for the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Set to expire Oct. 23, the PHE is now set to expire Jan. 21, 2021 – one year after declaring a PHE for COVID-19 in the United States.

As a result, the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has posted an order dated October 20, 2020 adjusting the Physician and Non-Physician Practitioner Services section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule (OMFS) to conform to additional Medicare fee schedule changes pursuant to Labor Code section 5307.1.

DWC has adopted the updated telehealth list which includes 11 new codes which are effective for services rendered on or after October 14, 2020.

The order adopting the updated Physician and Non-Physician Practitioner fee schedule can be found on the DWC fee schedule web page.

The following are the new telehealth codes added by this order:

— 93797 Physician or other qualified health care professional services for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation; without continuous ECG monitoring (per session)
— 93798 with continuous ECG monitoring (per session)
— 93750 Interrogation of ventricular assist device (VAD), in person, with physician or other qualified health care professional analysis of device parameters (eg, drivelines, alarms, power surges), review of device function (eg, flow and volume status, septum status, recovery), with programming, if performed, and report
— 95970 Electronic analysis of implanted neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter (eg, contact group[s], interleaving, amplitude, pulse width, frequency [Hz], on/off cycling, burst, magnet mode, dose lockout, patient selectable parameters, responsive neurostimulation, detection algorithms, closed loop parameters, and passive parameters) by physician or other qualified health care professional; with brain, cranial nerve, spinal cord, peripheral nerve, or sacral nerve, neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter, without programming
— 95971 with simple spinal cord or peripheral nerve (eg, sacral nerve) neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter programming by physician or other qualified health care professional
— 95972 with complex spinal cord or peripheral nerve (eg, sacral nerve) neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter programming by physician or other qualified health care professional
— 95983 with brain neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter programming, first 15 minutes face-to-face time with physician or other qualified health care professional
— 95984 with brain neurostimulator pulse generator/transmitter programming, each additional 15 minutes face-to-face time with physician or other qualified health care professional (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure)
— G0422 Intensive cardiac rehabilitation; with or without continuous ECG monitoring with exercise, per session
— G0423 with or without continuous ECG monitoring; without exercise, per session
— G0424 Pulmonary rehabilitation, including exercise (includes monitoring), one hour, per session, up to two sessions per day