Re: critical access hospital

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Our hospital recently received Critical Access Hospital designation.

As outpatient PT services now are billed to Medicare A, does anyone

know if there are the differences in practice

management/documentation?

Larson, MPT

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> Hello everyone,

> I am a new Director at a small rural

critcal access hosptial. I was updating our charge master and

updating some of the untimed charges.

> I got a call from my billing director and

she asked why I had forwarded the changes, I told her I was getting

our oupt billing compliant with Medicare part B. She then told me

that she bills medicare part A for all inpt and OUTPT charges. I

didn't realize that CAH's have the option of billing medicare A for

oupt physical therapy services.

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> Is it true that critical access hospitals can bill medicare A for

outpt services as well?

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> thanks for any help offered,

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> Mike Butterfield OT

> Penobscot Valley Hospital

> Lincoln,ME

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