Board Revises Telemedicine Rules, Codes; Cuts Assessment Rate

The New York Workers' Compensation Board adopted emergency changes to its telemedicine rules, clarifying and superseding previous rules on billing codes and modifiers. The regulations allow telemedicine in emergency and other situations to encourage social distancing during the pandemic, and they provide new codes for a range of services. For providers using video-based assessments of injured workers, modifier 95 should be used, with place of service shown as “11.” For telephone-based assessments, place of service is “02,” the board said in a bulletin. The Current...