Does this scenario sound familiar?

• You are a physical therapist in an outpatient practice (private or facility-based)
   
• You spend as much time as you can trying to keep current on all the issues related to running the business side of your practice while providing high quality clinical care to your patients
   
• You have excellent employees who provide great clinical care, and administrative staff who are dedicated to the success of your practice
   
• Although you love outpatient practice, you are overwhelmed by all of the rules and regulations around coding, billing, documentation, and compliance which takes time away from treating patients, marketing and growing your practice/facility, or participating in activities with your family
   
• You seem to be working harder for less. Cash flow for you or your organization is always a concern
   
• You know that even though you have the best intentions, you may have some problems with understanding the CPT coding system, and you know that despite your best efforts, you clinic's documentation is not what it should be
   
• You may not always be coding accurately, and you think that you may do better with obtaining payment for services if you understand how to code and bill correctly and if your fee schedule is accurate
   
• You are aware that insurers are cracking down on paying for services that are not coded correctly, not documented sufficiently, or that are not medically necessary, and you are just hoping that your practice/facility is small enough (after all, you are not a large multi-state corporation) that you do not trigger an audit of your coding and documentation. You may have also already been audited, or received denials based on coding or medical necessity, and you want to avoid these in the future
   
• But, you also understand that a great number of audits are purely random, and you want to make sure that if audited, you have done all you can to minimize the risk that you will have to pay back money, or worse, that you may be accused of committing fraud or abuse!
   
• You realize that assessing your current level of risk can dramatically help you to develop a Corrective Action Plan and assist you in minimizing your potential for third party audit or review.

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