post surgical prosthesis or definitive?
Jeremy Sprouse
Description
Collection
Title:
post surgical prosthesis or definitive?
Creator:
Jeremy Sprouse
Date:
3/7/2013
Text:
I am curious to how most practices bill their post op prosthetics? I have
always billed for a definitive and then billed for a replacement socket when
needed. With all the audits I'm wondering if I could bill for L5540 or L5560
(preparatory) in order to justify the activity level of the components I
use. In other words..should I put the patient on a standard post op
prosthesis with a sach foot, see what the patients activity level is on it
and then bill for the K3 or K4 since I would have then have documented proof
of the activity level? For those of you who do bill for a prep socket and
then definitive.is there a minimum time frame between billings for the prep.
and then the definitive? I'm just looking for some way to prove the
functional level of a new patient. It seems like waste to bill for a Sach
foot and components, only to throw them away and bill for a different foot
and components. But I have to come up with a better way of documenting the
functional level of new amputees.
Jeremy Sprouse CPO
always billed for a definitive and then billed for a replacement socket when
needed. With all the audits I'm wondering if I could bill for L5540 or L5560
(preparatory) in order to justify the activity level of the components I
use. In other words..should I put the patient on a standard post op
prosthesis with a sach foot, see what the patients activity level is on it
and then bill for the K3 or K4 since I would have then have documented proof
of the activity level? For those of you who do bill for a prep socket and
then definitive.is there a minimum time frame between billings for the prep.
and then the definitive? I'm just looking for some way to prove the
functional level of a new patient. It seems like waste to bill for a Sach
foot and components, only to throw them away and bill for a different foot
and components. But I have to come up with a better way of documenting the
functional level of new amputees.
Jeremy Sprouse CPO
Citation
Jeremy Sprouse, “post surgical prosthesis or definitive?,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 26, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/234873.
