Next Event: Practical Application of Front End Essentials for Billing
Date: May 28,2025
This 2-hour online course will assist physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists in understanding the required elements of documentation for an initial evaluation and reevaluation.
You are treating a patient for one condition (e.g., neck pain) and when they come in for a follow-up visit, they now present with a physician order for their right shoulder. What do you do? In this article, I will answer the following questions:
This online course will teach participants what documentation is required in a reevaluation, progress report, and discharge report, when you can bill a reevaluation, the 2025 Medicare Part B certification and recertification requirements, and how one note can serve as a reevaluation, progress report, and a recertification.
UnitedHealthcare (UHC) has once again revised their Habilitation and Rehabilitation Therapy (Occupational, Physical and Speech) revised medical policy with an effective date of August 1, 2023. The revised policy impacts all UHC Commercial plans and UHC Oxford. The only revision to this revised policy compared to the July 1, 2023 revision is UHC has
This 2-hour webinar will assist physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists in understanding the required elements of documentation for an initial evaluation and reevaluation.
QuestionCan a resident physician certify and recertify a plan of care for outpatient therapy services under the Medicare program? Answer If you have other questions about Medicare Part B and outpatient therapy plans of care, click HERE. If you have questions about Medicare Part B outpatient therapy certifications and recertifications, click Here.
I am often asked by providers of outpatient therapy services how to identify who the certifying physician/non-physician practitioner (NPP) or physicians/NPPs are on the claim form. The answer depends on whether you are a private practice submitting claims on the paper 1500 claim form or the electronic equivalent (i.e. 837P) or you are an institutional provider (i.e. skilled nursing facility, rehabilitation agency, CORF, or hospital outpatient department) submitting claims on the UB-04 electronic claim form (837I). In this article, I will provide the answers to the above including how to identify multiple physicians/NPPs on the claim form when one physician/NPP … Read More