Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes)

This is the supervised exercise portion of a therapy session — work aimed at strength, endurance, flexibility, or range of motion in one or more body areas. It is counted in fifteen-minute blocks, so one visit usually produces several units of it on the bill.

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What it is

Therapeutic exercise is the part of a rehabilitation visit spent doing prescribed movement under a therapist's direction, with the goal of changing a physical property of the body: how strong a muscle is, how far a joint travels, how long the patient can keep going before fatigue sets in. In practice it looks like resisted movements with bands or weights, stretching held to a count, repetitions on a bike or a pulley, and the therapist correcting form and adjusting resistance as they go. Though the descriptor carried on many hospital charge lists mentions occupational therapy, this code is used by physical therapists and occupational therapists alike. Time is what drives the billing: the unit is fifteen minutes, so a forty-five minute block of exercise is not one charge but several.

Why it is done

To rebuild strength lost to surgery, injury, immobilization, or a long illness
To restore range of motion in a joint that has stiffened
To build endurance so that daily activity stops being limited by fatigue
To maintain function in a long-term condition where the aim is to hold ground rather than gain it

What to expect

Sessions are typically scheduled for thirty to sixty minutes, several times a week at first, tapering as progress is made. The therapist watches the movement rather than just counting it — the point of doing the exercise in the clinic rather than at home is the correction and the progression. Soreness a day after a session is common, and the exercises are usually mirrored by a home program between visits. Progress is measured against goals set at the initial evaluation, and the plan is revised as those measurements change.

Questions worth asking

How many fifteen-minute units of this code are typically billed per visit, and what does that come to for a full course?
Does my plan limit the number of therapy visits or the dollar amount per year, and does this code count against that limit?
Is prior authorization needed, and after how many visits does it have to be renewed?
If part of the session is spent on exercises I could do at home unsupervised, is that time still billed as a unit?

What Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) costs by state

Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Texas — 124 hospitals, median $123.90
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Florida — 82 hospitals, median $161.20
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in California — 66 hospitals, median $137.28
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Ohio — 62 hospitals, median $125.45
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Illinois — 51 hospitals, median $105.00
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Virginia — 43 hospitals, median $92.50
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Tennessee — 38 hospitals, median $30.90
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Pennsylvania — 33 hospitals, median $105.00
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Wisconsin — 33 hospitals, median $87.50
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Michigan — 27 hospitals, median $66.00
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Indiana — 26 hospitals, median $90.50
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Kentucky — 26 hospitals, median $174.60
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Georgia — 25 hospitals, median $156.00
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Washington — 25 hospitals, median $71.91
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Iowa — 24 hospitals, median $113.54
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in New Jersey — 24 hospitals, median $37.06
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in New York — 23 hospitals, median $32.90
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Arizona — 21 hospitals, median $28.03
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Missouri — 20 hospitals, median $95.15
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Minnesota — 19 hospitals, median $110.40
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Colorado — 17 hospitals, median $271.38
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Oklahoma — 17 hospitals, median $75.40
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in West Virginia — 17 hospitals, median $248.00
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in North Carolina — 15 hospitals, median $95.65
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Oregon — 12 hospitals, median $104.25
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in South Carolina — 12 hospitals, median $111.15
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Kansas — 11 hospitals, median $77.60
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Mississippi — 11 hospitals, median $53.28
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Nebraska — 11 hospitals, median $56.70
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Arkansas — 8 hospitals, median $82.55
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Maine — 7 hospitals, median $159.45
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in South Dakota — 7 hospitals, median $126.40
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Louisiana — 6 hospitals, median $38.74
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Alaska — 5 hospitals, median $209.82
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Nevada — 4 hospitals, median $54.48
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in North Dakota — 4 hospitals, median $109.60
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Wyoming — 4 hospitals, median $89.28
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in New Mexico — 3 hospitals, median $97.44
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Hawaii — 2 hospitals, median $49.28
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Maryland — 2 hospitals, median $182.40
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in Montana — 2 hospitals, median $64.00
Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) cost in New Hampshire — 1 hospitals, median $171.25

Therapy Exercise Session (each 15 minutes) prices at hospitals

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Sources

MedlinePlus: Rehabilitation (opens in a new tab, leaves healthcosts.net)
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