98979 Code: First 10-min RTM Services Overview

98979 Code: First 10-min RTM Services Overview

"Remote therapeutic monitoring treatment management services, physician or other qualified health care professional time in a calendar month requiring at least 1 real-time interactive communication with the patient or caregiver during the calendar month; first 10 minutes"

The requirements for billing code 98979 are automatically tracked by the RTM Timer.

Requirements:

• 10-19 minutes of RTM treatment management services in a month

• One interactive communication

  
  

Frequency:

• 1x per calendar month

  
  

When to bill for code 98979?

Provider Scenario:

• Provider Sets up Patient in the system

• Provider renders 10-19 minutes of RTM treatment management services + one interactive communication in a calendar month

  
  

Billing decision:  

Bill code 98979 as soon as the code requirement is met and if you think you won't be able to hit requirement for codes 98980 & 98981.