03/29/18
OIG Releases Report on Physical Therapy Billing
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report regarding the findings of a review they conducted on outpatient physical therapy services provided to Medicare beneficiaries between July 1 – December 31, 2013. For calendar year (CY) 2013, the Medicare Part B program paid approximately $1.8 billion for outpatient physical therapy services provided to beneficiaries. The OIG sampling frame consisted of 9,037,556 outpatient physical therapy service claims with a place of service code of 11 (signifying that the therapist provided the service in an office setting), totaling $635,771,872, of which we reviewed a stratified random sample of 300
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