Therapy Minutes For Rug Levels

Levels of resource need in long term care settings primarily to facilitate medicare and medicaid payment they are assigned to individuals based on data elements derived from the ltc minimum data set mds there is a standard order or hierarchy and each rug is associated with relative weighting factors.

Therapy minutes for rug levels. O do not round o grouper applies concurrent and group methodology. You count the first 30 minutes of 97110 as 2 full units then add the additional 3 minutes of 97110 33 minutes. Under rug iv the number of pt ot and slp therapy treatment minutes are combined for a total number of treatment minutes that is used to classify a given patient into a given therapy rug under pdpm patient characteristics will be used to predict the therapy costs associated with a given patient rather than rely on service use. 2 disciplines one 5days.

Report actual therapy minutes on mds. If you look up 40 minutes on the chart you can bill for a maximum of 3 units 38 to 52 minutes. Ultra u 720 minutes. The medicare payment advisory commission med pac the centers for medicare and medicaid services cms and the department of health and human services.

7 minutes of manual therapy code 97140 total timed code treatment time is 40 minutes. Residents receiving physical therapy occupational therapy and or speech language pathology services while a resident. Second at least 3days very high v 500 719 minutes high h 325 499 minutes medium m 150 324 minutes low l 45 149 minutes adl score o 11 16 c. There are deep concerns around therapy minutes driving high reimbursement groups and many assessments scoring in those upper rugs were at or within 5 minutes of the rug minute threshold.

The rug levels are. This is part of the mds information about the patient s needs that is combined to determine the patient s rugs resource utilization groups level. Rug iv adl score 2 differences from rug iii score range 0 16. Slps occupational therapists and physical therapists recommend the frequency and length of sessions that they anticipate a patient will need.

To obtain a therapy rug therapy is prorated based on. Receiving physical therapy occupational therapy and or speech language pathology services while a resident. Ultra u 720 minutes very high v 500 719 minutes high h 325 499 minutes. For each therapy discipline the total minutes used for rug iv classification include all minutes in individual therapy one half of the minutes in concurrent therapy although total minutes received are documented on each resident s mds and all minutes in group therapy.

You can bill 2 units of 97110 and 1 unit of 97140. 66 groups o conditions added removed moved. Daily therapy minutes o rlx 15 29 minutes o rmx 30 64 minutes o rhx 65 99 minutes o rvx 100 143 minutes o rux 144 or minutes.