Outpatient Occupational and Physical Therapy Coverage

Outpatient OT and PT Services Billing Guide Outpatient Occupational and Physical Therapy Coverage Table of Contents CMS References LCDs and Billing and Coding Articles CMS MLN Matters® Certifying Physician/NPP Therapy Plan of [...]

2024 Annual Update to the Therapy Code List: Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

2024 Annual Update to the Therapy Code List: Remote Therapeutic Monitoring As of 1/1/2024, physical and occupational therapists in private practice may provide general supervision of their therapy assistants when they don’t personally furnish [...]

Common Questions and Answers

Outpatient OT and PT Services Billing Guide Common Questions and Answers Can a PTA treat a Medicare B patient in an outpatient setting with direct supervision by the physical therapist? Answer: Yes, however PTAs are limited in the [...]

Availability of the Essential Medicines Shortage List for the Recently Finalized Separate IPPS Payment for Establishing and Maintaining Access

Availability of the Essential Medicines Shortage List for the Recently Finalized Separate IPPS Payment for Establishing and Maintaining Access  On Thursday, 8/1/2024, CMS issued the FY 2025 Medicare Hospital IPPS and LTCH PPS final rule. [...]

Jurisdiction K Part B Top Claim Errors are Updated

Jurisdiction K Part B Top Claim Errors are Updated Using data analysis we update the Top Claim Errors on a quarterly basis and provide: the error reason code; a description of the error; the error type; details that include steps you can [...]

Diabetic Self-Management Tool for Billing

Diabetic Self-Management Tool for Billing DSMT and MNT complementary services. This means Medicare will cover both DSMT and MNT without decreasing either benefit as long as the referring physician determines that both are medically necessary. [...]

Reimbursement for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Using Antiretroviral Therapy to Prevent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Reimbursement for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Using Antiretroviral Therapy to Prevent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection CMS has issued NCD 210.15 Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Using Antiretroviral Therapy to Prevent Human Immunodeficiency [...]

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