Previously, I wrote an article titled “Can I Double Book Medicare Patients“. If you have not had a chance to read this article, I would suggest you take a few minutes to read it as it will really help you in your practice and organization understand the rules and regulations regarding scheduling and billing of double booking Medicare patients. That article then led to other questions that I will address in this article. Questions I will answer in this article include the following: Can I double book 2 non-Medicare patients during the same time period? If I have 2 non-Medicare

For those of us that treat Medicare beneficiaries for outpatient physical, occupational and/or speech-language pathology services, we all understand that the Medicare program utilizes what as come to be known as the “8-minute rule” when determining how many time-based units can be billed during an outpatient therapy visit. But what about non-Medicare insurance carriers that do not utilize the “8-minute rule”? How do we determine how much time of a time-based CPT code must be provided in order to bill that CPT code to an insurance carrier that does not follow the Medicare “8-minute rule”? In this article, I will