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When to Use Group Therapy Under the Patient-Driven Payment Model

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Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2020

The Patient-Driven Payment Model restricts use of group and concurrent therapy, limiting these services to no more than 25% of a resident's total therapy minutes.

Hearing that some SNFs have incorrectly used this provision to mandate 25% group therapy, APTA has developed guidance on when to use group therapy:

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Date: January 1, 2020
Contact:  advocacy@apta.org
Content Type:  Article

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Patient-Driven Payment Model

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