Telehealth

Navigate complex rules and rapidly changing requirements.  

Telephone Services

Learn how to make best use of new telephone service requirements and potential audit vulnerabilities.

Remote Care Management

Chronic Care Management (CCM) and the new Principal Care Management initiative can be provided 100% remotely.  These programs improve the quality of care and generate significant revenue.

Remote Physiologic Monitoring (RPM)

Remote physiologic (patient) monitoring (RPM) services allow practices to monitor patients in their homes via medical devices that send data to the practice.

E-Visits

E-visits compensate clinicians for the time they spend interacting with patients via email, portal messages and other forms of engagement. 

Benefits of Telehealth and Related Virtual Services

Physician practices are facing unprecedented financial challenges secondary to the pandemic.  We have a strategy that can help. A significant number of practices are not aware of revenue generating services that are ideal for the current situation:

  • They can be performed remotely.
  • They allow practices to provide a much high level of care coordination an monitoring.
  • They represent supplemental reimbursement to current services
  • Payers have rapidly modified their requirements and reimbursement levels for these services.
  • Physicians, PAs, NPs, CNSs, and general medical staff can convert non-billable hours into revenue generating services.
  • These success depends on lessons learned from other practices.

Consulting Services

Apollo HIT’s expert resources are led by a physician coding professional with over 20 years of experience with health IT product development and implementation. Each of these services, including telehealth, have unique and evolving compliance requirements.  They are provided at low cost. Our goal is to ensure that your practice is compliant with telehealth and other remote service requirements.

Remote Services Implementation and Compliance. Our team will assess your current use and billing practices for telehealth encounters and provide best practice recommendations. This may result in a marked improvement in efficiency and compliance, while ensuring that you have optimal billing practices.  We will also assess your practice for a range of underutilized remote services and their revenue potential – customized for your specialty and patient population.  Underutilized clinicians and staff members can be repurposed to provide these services, making up for revenue shortfalls.

Reimbursement Potential for Remote Services.  Reimbursement varies based on volumes, but a fully engaged nurse practitioner that provides these services for 10 hours per week can generate over $50,000 dollars per year in new revenue.  These services do not conflict with reimbursement for office visits or other procedures, meaning they represent a completely new source of revenue. The services and their income potential for 50 eligible services per month are listed below:

Service Name # Services/
Month
Monthly
Revenue
Annual
Revenue
Telephone E/M Services 50 $4,000 $48,000
Remote Physiologic
Monitoring
50 $6,000 $72,000
E-Visit Services 50 $1,750 $21,000
Chronic Care
Management (Provider)
50 $3750 $45,000
Principal Care
Management (Provider)
50 $3750 $45,000
Estimated Payments for Remote Services (Medicare)

There are a number of considerations for each of these services. Many of them have new or updated requirements. All of them have specific reporting and/or requirements.

Please contact us at: info@apollohit.com for more information.