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Tuesday November 21st 2006, 5:19 am
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Requests for adding services to the list of Medicare telehealth services are assigned by CMS to one of the following categories:

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- Our review of these requests includes an assessment of whether the use of a telecommunications system to deliver the service produces similar diagnostic findings or therapeutic interventions as compared with a face-to-face "hands on" delivery of the same service, ventolin hfa official site. In other words, teacher administration of ventolin mdi, Order ventolin, the discrete outcome of the interaction between the clinician and patient facilitated by a telecommunications system should correlate well with the discrete outcome of the clinician-patient interaction when performed face to face. Requestors must submit evidence indicating that the use of a telecommunications system does not affect the diagnosis or treatment plan as compared to a face-to-face delivery of the service.
- If the evidence shows that the proposed telehealth service is equivalent to the face to face delivery of the service, ventolin hfa inhalers, Ventolin uk, we would add it to the list of telehealth services. However, ventolin is used for, Relion ventolin hfa inhaler, if we determine that the use of a telecommunications system changes the nature or outcome of the service, for example, the nature of clinical intervention, as compared with the face-to-face delivery of the service, we would view the request as a new service, rather than a different method of delivering an existing Medicare service.
- Under Medicare, new services: (1) Must fall into a benefit category; (2) must be reasonable and necessary in accordance with section 1862(a)(1)(A) of the Act; and (3) must not be specifically excluded from coverage. As with any service, the requestor has the option of applying for a national coverage determination. Information on applying for a national coverage determination may be found on the website at http://www.cms.hhs.gov; then select "Coverage," under the topics heading, then "Process."