As you know on January 1st, 2020 CMS changed its coding methodologies to prevent PTs and OTs from billing an evaluation and therapeutic activities and/or group therapy services on the same date of service.
But as of today, January 24th, 2020, CMS has reversed course and announced that it will return to most of the coding rules that were used in 2019. In short, this means that therapeutic activities (97530) and all PT and OT evaluations may be billed in the same visit without the use of a modifier.
There are still a lot of details to be worked out and we don't know if the update will be retroactive to January 1st... so stay tuned!
