THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) work with appropriate stakeholders to develop specific Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes that allow reimbursement for non-face-to-face time spent in Advance Care Planning (ACP) in the post-acute and long-term care setting;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that PALTmed enlist the assistance of the American Medical Association and other stakeholders to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expansion of the definition of reimbursable ACP services to include time spent in non-face-to-face ACP conversations to allow Medicare coverage as telehealth services.
Note: Effective August 13, 2024, AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is now Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed).