How MonitAir enables
Telemedicine (TM)
- Video, audio, text, and screen sharing capabilities that allow you to connect directly with your patients, in a HIPAA-compliant manner.
- Seamless collaboration through virtual exam rooms that allow you and your clinical staff to run televisits the way you would run your practice.
- Integrated RPM toolsthat allow you to review your patients’ data during their televisit, facilitating data-based and personalized reatment plans
- Call history log of your telehealth services, permitting documentation and billing in accordance with up-to-date CMS guidelines
Aims of TM
Only time will tell how medicine will be practiced moving forward, but one thing is for sure: more and more patient encounters will occur through telemedicine.
Increased
access
to care
By eliminating barriers like transportation, appointment wait times, and visit requests
Enhanced
face-to-face televisits
By equipping you with on-demand access to data, allowing you to make changes in real-time to your patients’ care plans
and quality of care
Evidence for TM in Sleep and Respiratory Care
This moment of telehealth use and acceptance [in the Covid-19 era] can last, because we have shown that patients and providers rapidly adjust to televisits... because we have the technology to meet patients where they are... and because it is a method to reduce health disparities and improve health equity by decreasing barriers and increasing access.
Poppas et al., JACC, 2020
Intensive telemedicine support (i.e., monthly televisit follow-ups) help to optimize CPAP adherence even for patients with long-term CPAP use.
Kimihiko et al., Ann Am Thor Soc, 2020
Home initiation of chronic NIV in stable hypercapnic COPD patients, with the use of telemedicine, is non-inferior to in-hospital initiation, safe and reduces costs by over 50%.
Duiverman et al., Thorax, 2020
CPT ® Billing Codes and
Reimbursement for TM
With the advent of Covid-19, the standards for reimbursement of telemedicine services have completely been transformed as many providers have resorted to telehealth solutions as their sole way of providing care to their patients.
TM services are covered under CPT codes
99201-99215 with specific modifiers (e.g., GT, 95, GQ).
Modifier “GT ”
“Via interactive audio and video telecommunications systems.” GT is the most commonly used modifier. You can append GT to any CPT code for services that are provided via telemedicine.
Reimbursement similar to traditional in-office visits
*Recognized by CMS and Private Payers
Modifier “95 ”
“Synchronous telemedicine service rendered via real-time interactive audio and video telecommunications system.” Modifier 95 is similar to GT, but, unlike GT, there are limits to the codes that it can be appended to.
Reimbursement similar to traditional in-office visits
*Recognized by CMS and Private Payers
Modifier “GQ ”
“Via asynchronous telecommunication system.” Asynchronous telemedicine means that medical care was provided via image and video that was not rovided in real-time.
Reimbursement similar to traditional in-office visits
*Recognized by CMS and Private Payers
