Within a Skilled Nursing Facility, Students Must Meet Certain Requirements

question 19

Multiple Choice

Within a skilled nursing facility, students must meet certain requirements for their patient treatments to be billable as skilled therapy minutes.Identify the requirements that must be met for services to be billable.

• A) The supervising PT or PTA does not have to be in the facility, but must be available by cell phone for any questions that may arise.
• B) The student does not have to be supervised by the PT or PTA but needs to communicate the treatment session at the end of the day.
• C) The supervising PT or PTA is required to review and co-sign all students' patient documentation.
• D) The student is allowed to determine the appropriate level of service for the patient and communicate this decision in the patient documentation.

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