DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 8 (August)

NPP Report: 5 proven ways to prevent PT documentation denials

You and your peers are billing more physical therapy (PT) services to Medicare than ever before, and the denial rate has gone up right alongside in the last few years, according to an NPP Report analysis. The two most commonly billed codes, 97110 and 97140, were billed 43 million times in 2007, up 14% from 37.7 million times in 2005. Over the same period, their denial rates jumped into double digits (see sidebar, here).

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