tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 37

Therapy Billing: Take a Quick Refresher on Therapy Supervision Rules

Keep incident to billing and assistant supervision issues separate. If you've been concentrating on how to bill incident to services, you may have overlooked one tricky area: supervision rules for outpatient physical therapists. Medicare incident to rules require that a physician billing incident to must provide direct supervision when a therapist performs the services. \"Direct\" means the physician must be in the office suite, explains Gayle Lee, JD, director of federal payment policy and advocacy for the American Physical Therapy Association. There is no \"in the room\" requi-rement for therapists in physician offices, says Judy Thomas, senior policy manager...

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