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Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM MT / 7:00 PM CT / 8:00 PM ET
Deadline to register: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM ET
Presented by: Angela Stephens, DHS, OTR/L, CHT; Ann Marie Feretti, EdD, OTR/L, CHT; Bridget Burke, OTL, CHT
Format: 45 minutes presentation, 15 minutes Q&A
Webinar Description:
This webinar will provide information to affect the delivery of hand and upper extremity rehabilitation along with daily business operations in private practice setting. A panel will be available to answer practice management questions.
This webinar is Part One of a Two-part series. The Part Two session will be scheduled for later in 2025.
Issues that will be covered during the Part One webinar include:
Private practice specific information
- Business tools needed
- Policy and procedures for hand therapy clinics (compliance driven)
Medicare
- How to become a DME provider
- Same and similar
- Denial/appeal process
- CMS billing
- CPT determination for treatment provided
- When to bill re-evaluation
Orthosis specific information
- L-code billing
- Any modifiers applicable
- Documentation needs
- DME provider-Not Medicare related
- Silver ring splints
• Webinar includes a Panel for Q & A, including discussion of issues pertinent to the delivery of hand and upper extremity interventions
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will:
- Identify specific business tools needed to assist in the development of policies and procedures that are compliance driven for the delivery of hand and upper extremity rehabilitation
- Identify the procedure to become a Medicare DME provider to assist in the delivery of hand and upper extremity rehabilitation
- Describe the rules and regulations associated with same and similar orthosis billing and reimbursement and in turn identify the appeal process following a denial
- Describe the proper procedures to complete billing to CMS including how to determine proper CPT’s for the delivery of hand and upper extremity rehabilitation
- Identify proper L-codes for orthosis fabrication and any necessary modifiers to provide proper reimbursement
- Identify proper documentation requirements to allow proper reimbursement for orthosis billing
Attendees earn 1.0 contact hour or 0.10 CEUs
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Registrants will have access to the recording after the live event to watch on their own time.
An email will be sent to all registrants approximately three to five business days after the live presentation with access to the recording, handout and quiz for CE credit.
Registration Fee:
Members $0
Student Members $0
Non-Members $55
Student Non-Members $30
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Angie Stephens is the Assistant Director of Hand Therapy at Orthopedic One in Columbus, Ohio. Angie has been an Occupational Therapist since 2001 and a Certified Hand Therapist since 2006. Most of her professional career has been dedicated to providing interventions to patients with hand and upper extremity injuries/trauma. Angie is also an adjunct faculty at Shawnee State University in the MOT and OTD programs. Angie is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association and the American Society of Hand Therapists. Angie is currently on the Practice Committee for ASHT.
Ann Marie Feretti is a clinical assistant professor in the Occupational Therapy Doctoral program at the University of Vermont. Ann Marie has been in practice since 1991 and a Certified Hand Therapist since 1997. Ann Marie continues clinical practice and doing clinical research in upper extremity rehabilitation at Motion PT Group in New York and Connecticut. Ann Marie has a particular interest in the complicated stiff hand and specifically a focus on clinical reasoning to effectively treat patients with stiffness. Ann Marie is an active member of the American Occupational Therapy Association and the American Society of Hand Therapists, currently serving as the Practice Division Director.
Bridget obtained her degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Pittsburgh and became a Certified Hand Therapist in 1996. She is currently the Director of Hand Therapy at Orthopedic One in Columbus Ohio and has been working with that group since 2001. Bridget highly values collaboration, relationship building and has a desire for lifelong learning. Bridget has been volunteering with the Practice Division of ASHT for the past three years.