Two for One

How to schedule your time and bill when you are treating more than one patient in a single location.

There are times when you may end up seeing two patients in a single location (usually the home). Most often, treatment time is a pendulum, moving from one of the patients to the next as you alternate activities to keep both engaged.

Here are tips on how to schedule and bill for this.

• Your scheduled time will be the same for both (i.e. 1:00 - 3:00 pm). You will have to enter this on the chart note.

• Your total billing cannot exceed your total time onsite.

• Otherwise divide the time and treatment by each patient. So, for example, if you started ther-ex with one and then she took a break while you did gait training with the other, each gets billed for what was done.

• Your HUCU check-in and out can be for a single patient - just make a note that both patients were seen for the record.