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Outpatient Therapy Coverage

The basic criteria for coverage of physical, occupational, and speech therapy under Medicare and guidelines for medical necessity.  Members can email us questions regarding any Medicare billing, coverage, or compliance issue, so please consider joining today if you need assistance. 

Definitions

Medical Necessity 

    • Medical Necessity FAQs
    • Expertise
    • Complexity and Sophistication
    • Needs of the Patient
    • When Services are not Considered Medically Necessary
    • Documenting Skilled Therapy

Maintenance Programs

    • How does Medicare define maintenance programs?
    • What conditions are required in order for a maintenance program to be covered?
    • When is a maintenance program not covered?
    • What needs to be documented when a maintenance program needs to be revised?
    • Examples of maintenance programs

Occupational Therapy Guidelines

    • What is included in the practice of occupational therapy?
    • Patients with psychiatric illness
    • Vocational and prevocational assessment and training


Conditions for Coverage

    • Services are medically necessary
    • Services are furnished under a plan of care
    • Services are furnished under the care of a physician
    • The plan of care is certified by a physician/NPP

Rehabilitative Therapy

    • What should be included in a POC for rehabilitative therapy?
    • Is rehabilitative therapy appropriate if the patient has a chronic or terminal condition?
    • What should be included in the documentation?
    • When is rehabilitative therapy considered to be successful?
    • When is rehabilitative therapy not medically necessary?

Speech-Language Pathology Guidelines

    • Evaluation Services
    • Therapeutic Services
    • Auditory Impairments
    • Dysphagia

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