You’re an OT in an outpatient clinic treating a patient who experienced a stroke 6 months ago. Your treatment session begins with 25 minutes of therapeutic activities to help the patient regain function in his R hand. After, you and your patient review and practice self-care training for 20 minutes. How many units do you bill for therapeutic activities? and how many units do you bill for self care training?

List one successful characteristic of an entrepreneur.

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Patient completed 21 minutes of fine motor activities. How many total units would you bill?

You’re seeing a child for a re-evaluation, focusing on assessing her visual-motor skills and coordination. She completes a standardized visual motor assessment for 30 minutes, and then spends 5 minutes doing an obstacle course you designed in order to further assess the patient’s skills. How do you correctly bill for this session? 

Reimbursement for early intervention, preschool, and school OT is funded through

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Mrs. S is completing LB dressing tasks during her OT session. She is able to place both feet into her underwear and pant legs but is unable to bend over, grasp her clothes, and pull her clothes up to her hip. Therefore, she completes 4/6 LB dressing tasks. How would you score the LB dressing GG code using the following GG scale?  Coding: Safety and Quality of Performance – If helper assistance is required because patient’s/resident’s performance is unsafe or of poor quality, score according to amount of assistance provided. Activities may be completed with or without assistive devices. 06. Independent – Patient/resident safely completes the activity by him/herself with no assistance from a helper. 05. Setup or clean-up assistance – Helper sets up or cleans up; patient/resident completes activity. Helper assists only prior to or following the activity. 04. Supervision or touching assistance – Helper provides verbal cues and/or touching/steadying and/or contact guard assistance as patient/resident completes activity. Assistance may be provided throughout the activity or intermittently. 03. Partial/moderate assistance – Helper does LESS THAN HALF the effort. Helper lifts, holds or supports trunk or limbs, but provides less than half the effort. 02. Substantial/maximal assistance – Helper does MORE THAN HALF the effort. Helper lifts or holds trunk or limbs and provides more than half the effort. 01. Dependent – Helper does ALL of the effort. Patient/resident does none of the effort to complete the activity. Or, the assistance of 2 or more helpers is required for the patient/resident to complete the activity.