Brief eval / consult

[Guest guest]

Hey there group,

I am wondering if any of you that work in a hospital-based outpatient clinic

have some kind of brief eval or consult charge that you utilize. An example of

its potential use would be for say, crutch training, or when a hand therapy

patient comes in for splinting only and a formal evaluation is not completed.

If you do have such a setup, would you let me know how you bill for this? If

you woulnd't mind sharing approximate cost and the logistics (ie do you have a

CPT code associated with it) that would be wonderful.

If you don't have such a thing, are you billing a full eval for such

circumstances/services, or are you billing under something else such as physical

performance measure (since we do a brief write up for the MDs at least).

Thanks in advance,

a Hranicka, OT/L

Clinical program leader

Tuality HealthPlace PT/Hand therapy

Hillsboro, OR