Re: Therapy minutes

[Maria Austin]

Therapy companies should list both the actual minutes and the units on the bill.  The actual minutes are required on the assessment and the units (15 minute increments) are required on the UB92/837 for billing purposes.   Maria Austin Financial/Clinical Applications Manager RH Positive Computer Systems 1-800-662-7991 fax 1-800-328-3403 [EMAIL PROTECTED]     ----- Original Message ----- From: Christine Kroll To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:11 AM Subject: RE: Therapy minutes  Recording therapy minutes in 15 minute increments all the time can make reviewers very suspicious - now this may get more attention depending on the region. However, the PPS final rule addressed this issue and indicated that exact minutes spent treating were to be documented and not always in 5 or 10 minute increments. Also, the Part B therapy time is to be calculated based off of timed or service based codes, timed code units are to be calculated according to the provided rounding table ( i.e 8 to less than 23 minutes is one unit) and still the exact minutes documented.   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Therapy minutes In a message dated 10/30/2003 1:12:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone had experience with a therapy company that always records their time in 15 minute increments.  Ours ALWAYS does.