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the provider wants to start billing out massages and what i am reading this can be done by a massage therapist will they have to be credential or bill under the providers number. This is new to me on massages.
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Yes- all major medical. They are 15 min intervals that are spend with our therapist.
For Medicare it does not cover since its not medically necessary.
 
nat0786 said:
Yes- all major medical. They are 15 min intervals that are spend with our therapist.
For Medicare it does not cover since its not medically necessary.
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Maybe it is plan specific...I was told by my chiropractor's office that my insurance would not cover a medical massage.
 
A little late to the party - but I just wanted give a bit of a warning in billing for massage therapy. Be very careful billing massage as 97110 (Therapeutic exercises) or 97140 (Manual therapy). Since there is code 97124 (massage - including effleurage, petrissage and/or tapotement (stroking, compression, percussion)) You must use this code when massage is documented. I, personally, have had a lot of therapeutic massage therapy, as well as physical therapy, throughout the years and I have only had one LMT use MFR and have never had any LMT treat me with therapeutic exercises, although I have been given information on doing the exercises between sessions.
Additionally, be aware that billing the physical therapy or massage therapy listing the chiropractor as the rendering provider is known as "incident to". Be very careful that you are complying to the rules of "incident to" billing. There is a lot of debate as to whether or not LMT's qualify for incident to billing.
Remember that just because a payer has been paying for the services you bill does not mean that you billing correctly. Unless they have reviewed the documentation and concurred that it was coded/billed correctly, they are assuming you are compliant.
 
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