Re: RE: RE: Productivity -Reply

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It is my understanding that the 1998 CPT manual does not allow the

speech treatments to be billed in time increments. Is this not true???

>>> 09/17/98 10:17am >>>

For Speech Pathology procedures, why don't you break them into 15

min.

increments?

Anita

Chicago

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Subject: Re: RE: RE: Productivity

Author: <ptmanageregroups> at Internet

Date: 9/16/98 9:26 PM

Mark, Re: the speech therapy, we've found a way to equate " relative

value

units " to the " procedures in speech therapy which are close to the

" average "

time units which would be spent on the procedure. This has allowed us

to

continue tracking " productivity " ......It is also built into the " billing "

system.

> Re: RE: Productivity

>

>

> >1.Your description of eval would be counted as 3 units.

> >2. We track " non-billable " 15 minute units of time as statistics, i.e.,30

> min. of documentation time per day is 2 units, a 1 hr pt. staffing is 4

> units, etc. Then our monthly report tracks total departmental nonbillable

> units. We also track missed treatment units the same way in order to

get

> a

> handle on potential lost revenue because of reasons cited by code, ie,

> staff

> unavailable, patient ill, patient refused, etc. Gives us an idea about

> what

> are the problems and what can be improved upon to reduce % of

missed tx

> units in the future.

> >>>> Todd Cepica 09/15 12:49 PM >>>

> >Mark (and others)

> >

> >I am referring to the following post:

> >

> >>Your goal of 140 billable 15 minute units per day for 2 PT's and 3

PTA's

> (28

> >>units per therapists = 7 treatment hours per day per therapist) is

close

> to

> >>what we expect. We allow 6.5 hours per day for patient care and

expect

> >>25-26 units. That may change when we go under PPS, but the fact

is that

> we

> >>exceed 25 units fairly often. This is the expectation for PT and OT.

> >

> >My question is this:

> >How do you define units? Are you consistant we CPT code language

or

> time?

> I.e. PT eval can only be billed once but may involve 3 units of time (in

> 15

> min increments). Is that considered 1 unit or 3? How do you account

for

> documentation time, inservices and other non--patient care activities?

> How

> does your staff document this information?

> >

> >Thanks for your insight.

> >T

> >

> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> >Todd Cepica, P.T.

> >Assistant Director

> >Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

> >University Medical Center

> >Lubbock, Tx 79417

> >Ph: Fax:

> >ntc@...

> >

> >

> >

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