At the beginning of Covid 19 PHE and during, the insurance payers scrambled around to put together virtual care/telehealth/telemedicine policies. Since then, there were many revisions, so it is of no surprise when Cigna announced that they are adding some of the codes that were on non-permanent virtual list to their Virtual Care Reimbursement Policy.
These Codes are:
However, how can home health services like S9123–Nursing care, in the home; by registered nurse, per hour (use for general nursing care only, not to be used when CPT codes 99500-99602 can be used), code that is used for coding and billing Private Duty nursing Billing, be used as a virtual code? This code is used for MLTC members that require around the clock nursing care, members that cannot take care of themselves…so how are the services supposed to be done via “virtual care”?
Just my 2 cents….. 🙂
Would you like to read the full Cinga Virtual Care Reimbursement Policy? Click on this link: https://static.cigna.com/assets/chcp/secure/pdf/resourceLibrary/clinReimPolsModifiers/R31_Virtual_Care.pdf
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