This allows professionals to comply with the new coding guidelines of the American Medical Association and be more accurate in their billing. Newer codes no longer indicate time frames but rather a typical session type or evaluation type. Whereas in years past some payers would pay speech language pathologists in increments of 15 minutes newer CPT codes now allow medical professionals to implement payment policies that are based on much stricter and defined CPT codes. Of course they can also utilize codes for 15 minutes of oral rehabilitation but all other codes are procedure based and don’t give professionals the ability to mark specific times.
Currently speech language pathologists can bill for the first hour of evaluation, the first 30 minutes of an STD evaluation, and aphasia evaluations. Current codes however aren’t perfect and have limitations as well as a few problems, especially where auditory experts are concerned.
These codes are primarily service-based and timebased as well. Speech language pathologists are currently utilizing current procedural terminology or “CPT” codes when dealing with their billing.
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