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Briefings on Outpatient Rehab: Reimbursement and Regulations (Single Issue)
March 2000
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HCFA redefines counting of minutes for hospital outpatient services
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has issued new guidelines that redefine how therapists count minutes of therapy for outpatient hospital services that use HCFA’s Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).
Effective April 1, 2000, therapists will no longer be able to bill for services they perform for less than eight minutes. One unit of therapy will be defined as at least eight minutes but less than 23 minutes (see chart). So you would bill for one unit if you provided at least eight minutes of therapy but l
