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New OIG Report Highlights Providers Complying with Medicare Telehealth Billing Requirements
March 2024
Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a new audit report related to telehealth evaluation and management (E/M) services. The nationwide audit of services provided between March 1, 2020 through November 30, 2020 found that, generally, providers met Medicare requirements when billing for evaluation and management (E/M) services (office/outpatient visit codes) via telehealth. While some documentation issues were identified on a small amount of the claims sampled (5 out of 110), the OIG report did not include recommendations given the high overall level of provider compliance found.