AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 12 (December)
Reporting Habilitative and Rehabilitative Services: Modifiers 96 and 97 (December 2018)
December 2018 page 7 Reporting Habilitative and Rehabilitative Services: Modifiers 96 and 97 A wide variety of services are provided by many different medical specialties for either habilitative or rehabilitative purposes. When an assessment, evaluation, or treatment is focused on skills and functioning for daily living that the patient has not yet developed, it is known as a habilitative service. This may include situations in which a patient must adopt a new mode of performing a functional activity requiring the acquisition of skills that were not required for that functional activity previously. When an assessment, evaluation, or treatment is...
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