Concurrent Therapy. May 12, 2017 . Just like providing individual, co-treatment or group treatment, the decision to provide a concurrent treatment to your patients should depend upon clinical reasoning. Which patients would benefit from a CMS Regulations for Concurrent Treatments

According to Robert Fifer, ASHA advisor to the AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, billing for co-treatment has been a topic of conversation with Florida Medicaid. He says that the amount of time that can be billed should represent the time that each discipline is devoting to one-on-one patient services. The medical coverage policies that MACs develop are referred to as LCDs, which are coverage and payment policies used at the regional level throughout the country to interpret national Medicare policy issued by the responsible federal agency, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The Final Rule on Concurrent Therapy Concurrent therapy in MDS 3.0 it is not being delivered according to Medicare coverage guidelines; that is, the therapy is not being provided individually, and it is unlikely that the services being delivered are at the complex skill level required for Billing and Coding Guidelines Article Title GO, GP modifier when the therapy cap exception has been approved or the guidelines for Medicare (i.e. screening), report a screening ICD-9 code and the GY modifier (items or services for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that minutes delivered in co-treatment sessions still count as reimbursable therapy minutes (RTMs) for Medicare Part A patients. According to those CMS officials, providers will have to capture co-treatment minutes twice per discipline in order to be appropriately reimbursed: What You Need to Know About New Medicare Part A Regulations. New Medicare regulations will go in to effect on October 1. How will it affect your practice? AOTA submitted comments about issues that affect occupational therapy to the Centers for