Skilled Physical Therapy Documentation Rules and Best Practices
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In this 45-minute recorded webinar, APTA staff review Medicare’s physical therapy documentation requirements and discuss documentation best practices. They discuss how to overcome the documentation concerns reported by payers and review some of the standardized tests that assist physical therapists in quantifying documentation and goals. Finally, APTA staff review the differences between restorative and maintenance therapy and how to ensure your documentation reflects the medical necessity of both.
Anita Bemis-Dougherty
PT, DPT, MAS
Wanda Evans, PT, DPT, MHS
Sr. Specialist, Health Policy and Payment
Wanda K. Evans, PT, DPT, MHS, is a senior payment specialist at APTA. Her responsibilities include communicating with members and insurers on inquiries regarding third-party, billing, CPT coding, and payment policies; providing resources in policy development; monitoring trends; and assisting in association efforts to advance payment policies. She remains a treating clinician in the outpatient setting. Before joining APTA, she was the clinical documentation and utilization review coordinator for Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital Network. Prior to that she was the supervisor of physical therapist and occupational therapist services for Kaiser Permanente Mid Atlantic. She has been an APTA member since she was a student. She received her bachelor of physical therapy and doctor of physical therapy degrees from Howard University, and a master of health science degree in orthopedic and sports physical therapy from the University of Indianapolis. She also is a certified kinesio taping practitioner.
Elise Latawiec
PT, MPH
Steve Postal
JD
Kara Gainer
JD
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