Summary: Payment reform systems offer a way to achieve greater reporting accuracy, promote quality care and minimize fraud. To improve quality of care and create an accurate payment system built upon providing medically necessary physical therapy services, the APTA has proposed to reform payment for outpatient physical therapy services by transitioning from the current fee-for-service, procedural-based payment system to a per session payment system. We have two experts joining us in this week’s podcast to discuss Alternative Payment Systems. Connie Ziccarelli, Principal & Chief Operations Officer and Jodi Woodward, Director of Medical Billing at Rehab Management Solutions share insight on alternative payment systems. The new payment system is quite different than the payment system in place today. Currently, services are are coded with CPT codes. The Alternative Payment System looks to use just 12 codes in total for physical therapy services. Although, learning the new system may be a challenge at first, the new alternative payment system should over time eliminate code choice, edits and bundling. Discover more about Alternative Payment Systems and how you can best prepare for them by listening to the full podcast now.
