Coding & Billing

For additional assistance with payment and reimbursement issues, contact APTA's Payment Policy & Advocacy department at 800/999-2782, ext. 8511 or advocacy@apta.org.

Coding

• ICD-10
• Coding for Diagnoses (ICD-9-CM)
• Coding for Interventions (CPT-4)
• Trainers of CPT Coding
• CPT Coding Changes
• ICD-9 Coding Changes
• Medicare Coding & Billing

Courses

• Coding Courses

Podcasts

• Coding & CPT: What's This All About? - 7/7/10
• Collecting Patient Fees: An Overview - 4/18/12
• Collecting Patient Fees: One Practice's Success Story - 4/18/12
• Ensuring Appropriate Payment by Using Modifiers - 8/2/12
• Evaluation, Reevaluation - 6/29/10
• How Codes are Valued for Medicare Payment - 7/7/10

Issues & Interpretations

• Coding Interpretations: One-on-One and the Group Code
• Coding Interpretations: Group Therapy Patient Scenarios

About CPT Codes

• About the CPT Process: How a Code Becomes a Code
• Evolution of CPT Codes for Physical Therapists

Billing for Services

• Billing for Your Services
• Cash Practice: Considerations for Physical Therapists
• Collection of Copays, Deductibles, and Other Patient Fees
• Fee Determination
• Fee Determination and Collection Tips
• Different Charges, Same Service
• Know Your Costs
• Means and Models for Pricing Physical Therapy
• Patient/First-party Payment
• Waiving Copayments
• National Provider Identifier (NPI)
• New Patient Checklist: Verifying Insurance Benefits and Covered Services (.pdf)
• Risks of Discounting or Waiving Your Fees (.pdf)

Frequently Asked Questions

• Active Wound Care Management (.pdf)
• Automobile-accident Coverage
• Billing for Supplies and Equipment
• CMS 1500 Claim Form and National Provider Identifier (NPI)
• Coding for Patient/Client Education
• Coding for Timed Codes
• Coding Resources
• Evaluation & Reevaluation
• Iontophoresis
• Orthotics, Prosthetics, Casting, Strapping, and Taping (.pdf)
• Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (.pdf)
• Vestibular Rehabilitation (.pdf)

• Last Updated: 9/5/2013
• Contact: advocacy@apta.org
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