What is an E-Visit?

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By definition, an E-Visit is a "non face-to-face patient initiated digital communications that requires a clinical decision that otherwise typically would have been provided in the office."   E-visits will be used at this time for every patient who is currently been placed on hold or a patient who may desire to extend time between face to face.  E-Visits are:

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• Patient-Initiated and provided with informed consent (although this can be done after education by provider)

• A follow-up for existing/established patients (not new patients)

• Can only be provided by PT, OT, SLP (not assistants sadly)

• Can only be done once every 7 calendar days

• Are billed once once/week even if there is more than one communication with the patient in the course of a week (For example, if you speak to a patient on Monday for 10 minutes and again on Wednesday for 15 minutes, you will bill for 25 minutes in one visit note)

 

What It is Not...

 

E-Visits are NOT Telehealth.  E-visits allow us to communicate with a patient using audio/visual technology but do not meet Medicare’s definition for Telehealth or tele-therapy so they are very limited in reimbursement and scope of what we can provide and there are no other codes or procedure that you can bill.  It is, however, our first option to allow a level of remote care for our Medicare patients.  

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The Codes To Use

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The codes are based on time-based and include the following:

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• G2061:  5-10 Minutes        (Paid at 1 Unit)

• G2062: 11-20 Minutes       (Paid at. 1 Unit)

• G2063 21 or >  Minutes    (Paid at 1 Unit)

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And When You Can Use Them

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The e-visit codes can only be billed once every seven days.  Seven days is defined as the time since the last patient encounter whether this was a face-to-face or a virtual visit.  So, if a patient was seen for a visit or had a virtual e-visit on Monday, the next billable e-visit would be the following Monday.   

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