Physician Fee Rule Expands Medicare Telehealth, Relies On RUC Recommendations

CMS added numerous codes to its list of telehealth services in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , released on Thursday (Nov. 2). The agency also announced it is adopting recommendations from the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), without as many refinements as in the past. In recent years, CMS considered RUC recommendations but often made modifications. Throughout the 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, CMS directly references recommendations from the RUC and follows the group's recommendations with...