11/23/20
Can Minutes of a Non-covered Service Count Towards the Total Billable Minutes?
QuestionIn my state, my Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) does not pay for iontophoresis as they consider it investigational and experimental. If I have a traditional Medicare patient that receives 35 minutes of 1 on 1 time that is billed out as therapeutic exercise, but also received iontophoresis that took 5 minutes of skilled one-on-tine to set up and answer patient questions, would it be permissible to ‘use’ the additional iontophoresis time (5 minutes) and add it to the 35 minutes of therapeutic exercise to achieve 40 minutes of total timed minutes, thus allowing 3 units of therapeutic exercise to be
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