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cord-028321-um448esn	Pollock, Kim	Embracing telemedicine into your otolaryngology practice amid the COVID-19 crisis: An invited commentary	2020-07-02		.txt	text/plain	372	30	64	On May 8, 2020, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) formally released an Interim Final Rule 1 that provided more changes to telemedicine coding, billing and reimbursement. The purpose of this Letter to the Editor is to highlight significant updates to our previously published article "Embracing telemedicine into your otolaryngology practice amid the COVID-19 crisis: An invited commentary" due to new guidance from CMS. Medicare will not deny claims due to the presence of this condition code or modifier for services/items not related to a COVID-19 waiver. As of 4/30/20, CMS is cross-walking the values for telephone CPT codes to higher valued established patient visits codes as shown in the Medicare now considers the telephone call codes to be a telehealth service 1, 3, 4 ; therefore, modifier 95 should be appended to the 99441-99443 codes. Summary of Policies in the Calendar Year (CY) 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Public Health Emergency (PHE) Interim Final Rules	./cache/cord-028321-um448esn.txt	./txt/cord-028321-um448esn.txt