In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, HHS has relaxed certain telehealth coding rules. HHS allows providers to offer telehealth services while charging the same amount they would for in-person care.Whether providing care virtually or on-site, providers can get paid the same amount for patient care because of these new HHS regulations.Specific services covered under these regulations include:• Telehealth visits• Virtual check-ins• E-visitsThese rules are changing regularly.CMS recently announced that doctors can directly care for patients at rural hospitals, across state lines if necessary, via phone, radio, or online communication, without having to be physically present. They announced similar options for nurse practitioners, occupational therapists, and hospice nurses. These changes affect critical access hospitals (CAHs), federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), rural health clinics (RHCs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and home health agencies and hospices.You can learn more about the CMS’s COVID-19 emergency declaration blanket waivers for healthcare providers and telehealth services at CMS.gov here.

CMS Releases HCPCS Codes for Telehealth Services
CMS has released a list of HCPCS codes for telehealth services and other virtual patient treatment sessions.These codes are covered under the Physician Fee Schedule, and they will continue to be covered throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.You can view the full list here.

AMA Releases Guidance on Telehealth Billing and CPT Codes
AMA has released information on telehealth billing and CPT codes, including telehealth visits, online digital visits, remote patient monitoring, and similar telehealth services.AMA’s guideline was updated on May 22 and covers the implementation of telehealth in response to COVID-19, including how to code telehealth services.The goal of the guideline is to help providers implement telemedicine and remote care services while ensuring uninterrupted care for 100 million Americans with chronic conditions.Items covered by AMA guidelines include:• Store and forward technologies that collect images and data for transmission and interpretation at a later date• Real-time, audio-video communication tools that connect physicians and patients• Remote patient monitoring tools like blood pressure monitors, wearables, Bluetooth devices, and other devices that collect biometric data for review (including mHealth apps).• Verbal/audio-only and virtual check-ins via patient portals, messaging platforms, etc.

Using Telehealth Services for Triage
Hospitals are now using telehealth services to triage patients whenever possible, according to a recent report from the Office of the Inspector at HHS.As demand for elective and non-urgent services declines, ambulatory organizations are following similar guidelines.That means demand for telehealth services continues to grow – and the demand for effective telehealth coding guidelines is increasing with it.

Other Tips for COVID-19 Telehealth Coding
COVID-19 has left organizations scrambling. Some are struggling to effectively code for telehealth services. Others are struggling with COVID-19 coding.Whatever your coding issue may be, these tips can help:Stay up-to-date. The AMA, CDC, and CMS are releasing new guidelines regularly, and the COVID-19 pandemic is changing weekly. Spend extra time checking information from all relevant providers to help your organization stay up-to-date.Spend extra time verifying EHRs to ensure accuracy and compliance. This is always a good tip, but it’s particularly important during an uncertain situation when coding errors are rampant.Consider hiring contract medical coding experts for assistance. Contract medical coding experts are a guaranteed way to solve inefficiencies and reduce errors. They’re experts at medical coding, and that expertise is invaluable during a time like this.

HMI Corp’s Contract Medical Coding Experts Can Help
HMI Corp has contract medical coding experts standing by to solve medical coding issues for your healthcare organization.Whether struggling with telehealth coding or COVID-19 coding, your organization cannot risk inaccurate or ineffective coding.Our US-Based contract medical coding specialists are credentialed by AHIMA and/or AAPC. They have firsthand experience in Inpatient/MS-DRG, Outpatient Surgery, Physician E/M, Emergency Department E/M, Interventional Radiology, Ambulatory Surgery, GI/Endoscopy, and other fields of care. They can work with TruCode, Meditech, VISTA, 3M, McKesson, Cerner, Epic, and CHCS/CHCSII.Contact HMI Corp for effective contract medical coding for your organization. Whether dealing with telehealth coding issues with COVID-19 or general medical codinginefficiencies, we can help.

In recent times, there has been a big shift in the minds of customers towards split ACs in India. The reasons are quite obvious – improved aesthetics, enhanced cooling performance, lesser energy consumption, and most importantly low maintenance. The Indian market has been following global trends with consumer preference moving towards split ACs. To cater to the rising needs, split air conditioners manufacturers offer a strong portfolio in terms of split ACs.

A hi-wall split ac gives you ample placement options and does not obstruct your view through your window. And since in split air conditioner the indoor unit and outdoor unit are placed separately it resolves space issues as well. The ongoing competition between different brands has witnessed a consistent contraction in price gap between split air conditioners and window ac units. At a time when apartment housing is on the rise, these air conditioners are the most sought after home air conditioning option available today.

Split ACs are found to be less noisy and high on design and power quotient. In addition, their low space consumption is always a plus point for today’s consumers who always find it difficult to manage available space in their homes.

In order to capture most of the home air conditioning market in India, all leading split air conditioners manufacturers have been coming up revolutionary features like silent mode, intelligent eye, easy to clean air filters, and many others. Depending on one’s budget and brand preferences, it has become a lot easier for people to pick an air conditioner of their choice.

According to air conditioning experts, it is highly recommended to select an air conditioner of right tonnage. This is because an under tonnage air conditioner cannot cool properly and over tonnage AC will unnecessarily consume extra power. Further, the introduction of inverter AC technology has resulted in better cooling efficiency and lower energy consumption. On the efficiency front, Indian Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio is the most commonly used term these days.

ISEER refers to the ratio of the total annual amount of heat that the equipment can remove from the indoor air when operated for cooling in active mode to the total annual amount of energy consumed by the equipment during the same period. People should look for star rating label while purchasing an air conditioner. A carefully taken decision always results into better value for money and extended operational life of your air conditioner. With so many brands and air conditioner models available in the market, keeping a close check on all relevant aspects is the key to buying a good product.

Safe and secure health is a basic need of Women taking into consideration their physical and functional needs. The women life takes a start after attaining puberty with issues like menstrual cycle. Later marriage make them enter the next crucial phase of child birth and in the later age menopause sets in that result in vaginal dryness, hot flashes and so on. The needs in women to be healthy is obvious as any falter in it reflect in issues like low body weight, anemia, giving birth to low weight babies, lack of interest in sex, depression etc. The Ayurvedic remedy Shilajit directly from the Mother Nature is pure and has many medicinal properties. There is a myth on its safeness in women, which has been under eradication with the results of Shilajit in augmenting women’s health. Further, Shilajit is itself under augmentation with additional herbs as well as sea organisms to bring in Shilajit ES capsules.

The herbs are Safed Musli, Kesar, Shatavari, and, the Moti Bhasma or Pinctada Margaritifera, whose sources are from sea.

Shilajit ES capsules fortify itself with the goodness of Shilajit, which gives the impetus to the safe upkeep of women’s health without any side effects. The women’s concern to be lean as well as with radiance in skin is natural as it is universal attitude among its tribe. The Shilajit ES capsule has the Shilajit that tend to speed up the body metabolism, so that the fat is burnt out and not in storage in the form of ugly fabs in the hip as well as buttocks regions, which are prone for fat disposition in women. The radiance in their skin is in care with Kesar or Saffron that are among the herbs in Shilajit ES capsules. The absorption of vitamins in women is in facilitation through the presence of fulvic acid in Shilajit.

It is a carrier and has the properties of electrolyte so that women rarely get exhaustion in enjoying life in sexual pursuits as well as their normal household chores. Women has to ensure safe and secure practices in taking cure from remedies due to its effect on their child bearing capacity as well as on the child in the womb. Saffron has the capacity improve the skin color of the baby in the womb indicate the safe and secure nature of herbal supplement like Shilajit ES capsules.

Shatavari or Asparagus racemosus is a constituent in Shilajit ES capsules deal with the problems of dyspepsia (amlapitta or acid regurgitation) as well as lack of lactation in lactating mothers. The importance of mother’s milk in child’s immunity as well as growth is never to undermine, with the Shilajit ES capsules, women, as a mother, is sure to be free from indigestion or dyspepsia during the pregnancy times as well as lactate well with raise in prolactin levels to feed the baby with mother’s milk.

Overall, Shilajit ES capsules are safe and secure for women. The easy availability of Shilajit ES capsules through online stores ensures privacy to women to get it and consume for their wellness as well as for the happiness in the familial life.

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