AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 8 (August)

Units of Service Reporting of Outpatient Rehabilitation CPT Codes (August 2005)

August 2005 pages 11-12 Medicare Coding Update:Units of Service Reporting of Outpatient Rehabilitation CPT Codes Since publication of the July edition of the CPT Assistant Bulletin, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has further revised its instruction for reporting the numbers of units for outpatient rehabilitation services based on the CPT code instead of the revenue code with implementation July 1, 2005. From a CPT coding perspective, some of the physical medicine services are timed codes based on a 15-minute unit. Multiple units can be billed on a date of service for one or more procedures based on...

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