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On 1/24/2020, CMS released a statement that recent updates to the NCCI edits that impacted the delivery of therapy would be reversed.  These edits included therapeutic activity (97530) and group therapy (97150) when billed on the same day as physical (97161, 97162, 97163) or occupational (97165, 97166, 97167) therapy evaluations.  Under the edits that were […]

As of January 1, 2020, it was announced by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the contractor that is in charge of the National Correct Coding Initiatives (NCCI) that two commonly billed therapy CPT codes would no longer be permitted to be used in conjunction with the physical and occupational therapy evaluation […]