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 to run televisits the way you run your practice
- Integrated RPM tools that allow you to review your patients’ data during their televisit, facilitating data-based and personalized treatment 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, MonitAir can help inform how you make changes in real-time to your patients’ care plans
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 provided in real-time.
Reimbursement similar to traditional in-office visits
*Recognized by CMS and Private Payers
NOTE: CPT(c) codes and code descriptions are copyright materials belonging to the American Medical Association. All reimbursement amounts are estimates and subject to change. Reimbursement for RPM services is subject to the billing provider satisfying the billing and coverage requirements for each code. MonitAir does not and cannot guarantee reimbursement for any item or service billed by its customers.
