Occupational therapy Learning Center

OT Private Practice Setup, Billing & Credentialing

Occupational therapy practice operations need to reflect the activities, environments, and participation goals behind the service. Your OT Learning Center connects private practice startup with occupational profile workflows, state and setting questions, payer verification, and episode documentation. Build around the people and settings your practice will actually serve.

Built for occupational therapists and independent occupational therapy teams.

Start free. Select more than one specialty when your practice spans professions.

Member education and tools

Find the education for your practice questions

These previews show what you can explore in your occupational therapy account. Sign up to access the teaching, resource library, and saved planning tools. Start free; Premium resources and tools are marked inside the Learning Center.

Starting an occupational therapy private practice

How do I plan an OT business around the people and settings I serve?

Access occupational therapy startup education and specialty practice worksheets. Explore occupational profile workflows, service models, referral relationships, and home or community visit operations in a workspace that saves your decisions.

Occupational therapy billing

Where can I learn about payer questions for my OT services?

Open OT payment resources, state and payer source maps, verification worksheets, and claim or denial tools. Bring your practice's service and setting questions into one account with learning designed for occupational therapy.

OT coding and documentation

How can I build confidence in the documentation behind my claims?

Access occupational profile, participation-goal, and episode documentation learning inside the specialty library. Use the claim and audit tools to organize questions and review work alongside the operational documents your practice creates.

OT insurance credentialing

How do I organize insurance enrollment for my OT practice?

Find occupational therapy enrollment education, state and setting resources, and saved practice planning tools. Connect insurance participation goals with your startup work, team responsibilities, and the service locations you are planning.

Practice tools built around occupational therapy

Occupational profiles and participation goals

Organize the path from an occupational profile to service planning and outcome review. Specialty resources and worksheets help connect your practice's focus, visit formats, documentation workflow, and referral relationships to the participation goals you intend to support.

OT credentials, settings, and payment questions

Record state licensure, service-setting, assistant, enrollment, and payer questions before committing to a practice model. The State & Medicaid Tracker keeps source links and review notes together, while claim and denial planning tools organize the next verification or follow-up step.

Home and community visit operations

The Home & Community Visit Planner helps organize service areas, travel, scheduling, staff responsibilities, and visit logistics. Pair it with policies, team planning, and capacity worksheets to build a workable process for care beyond a fixed office.

What’s available in your occupational therapy account

Connect learning to work you can save and use. Free and paid membership options share one account; individual tools and resources identify their access level.

Your specialty dashboard

Return to your specialty workspace, saved work, and next actions from one home.

Learning Pathways

Follow the complete 17-step practice startup guide, then use focused specialty education and enrollment-and-payment cases.

Find an Answer

Search the pathways, resources, and worksheets for your profession when you have a specific practice question.

My Practice Plan

Organize specialty milestones, service decisions, and next steps in a plan you can return to.

Specialty resource library

Keep profession-specific guidance, source links, and finished practice resources organized in your account.

Interactive worksheets

Save answers to checklists, verification reviews, planners, and operational decisions as you work.

Policy, Form & Practice Builders

Customize editable practice language with guided choices, saved versions, and document downloads.

State & Medicaid Tracker

Use specialty source maps across all 50 states. Save the requirements you are checking, review notes, and dates.

Claim Decision Lab

Organize service, setting, provider, benefit, and documentation questions before choosing a billing route.

Denial Reason Reviewer

Work through denial context and build a saved follow-up plan with the evidence and next questions you need.

Payer & State Watchlist

Save payer and state interests and revisit matching resources and review information in your specialty.

Growth Center

Plan a service model, referral relationships, outreach, pricing, and capacity around your profession.

Practice team access and planning

Organize roles and onboarding, and use Practice Premium for separate team logins and owner-managed specialty access.

My Practice

Keep shared practice identity and specialty-specific credential and operational information together.

Saved learning progress

Track completed lessons, keep notes, and return to the work you have already started.

Specialty community

Open the community view for your profession from the same account as your learning and practice tools.

Practice Academy

Add a branded patient education home with resources, courses, assignments, programs, updates, and content activity insights.

Support

Get help with your Learning Center account and the tools you are using.

Account and specialty settings

Choose one or more specialties, manage your account, and switch workspaces while keeping saved work.

Built for your specialty · Premium

OT Everyday Routines Studio

Create printable visual routine cards for practice-authored home, school or workplace materials.

Save your work, assign dated tasks, complete recurring checks, and download printable materials. The member-only connection directory contains opt-in, self-reported listings; participation grows as providers join.

Get your specialty workspace

Individual Premium · $15/month

Leave with a decision, a plan, and a working document

Free helps you learn where to start. Premium adds tools to evaluate your business model and turn specialty guidance into saved work you can use in your practice.

Know what your service needs to earn

The Business Workbench calculates the fee and paid units needed for your costs and owner pay target, including admin and travel time. Compare three alternative offers and see whether each fits your available hours.

Take away: a saved pricing and capacity comparison.

Test the plan before you commit

Adjust cancellations, collection losses, and payment delays. See the effect on owner pay and collections in transit. Export your own inputs, comparison, and stress-test results as a PDF report or CSV.

Take away: a business report for your next review.

Build the practice documents

Adapt editable policy and workflow builders to your occupational therapy practice, save your decisions, and download working documents for your review.

  • • OT assistant, delegation and record policy
  • • OT intake-to-discharge workflow
  • • OT occupational profile to discharge standard

Take away: editable specialty documents.

Use your own business estimates. Calculations do not establish payer coverage or permitted charges. Your practice reviews documents before using them.

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A look inside the occupational therapy library

Examples from the currently available catalog. Create an account to open the complete library and save your work.

Learning pathways

  • Free

    Occupational therapy practice startup

    A free, specialty-specific startup path with a concrete decision and source check in every step.

  • Premium

    Occupational therapy: enrollment and payment cases

    A focused Premium pathway with a worked case, source checks and a saved decision plan for the actual provider, product and setting.

Specialty resources

  • Free

    Check OT authority across states and settings

    Document the license, telehealth, assistant, and facility rules that apply to a planned OT service.

  • Free

    Decide whether an OT service fits telehealth

    Assess functional goals, access needs, safety, licensure, consent, and payer recognition.

  • Free

    Home safety: connect a fall hazard to an everyday activity

    Use CDC STEADI materials to teach observation and prepare for an individualized OT home-safety conversation.

  • Free

    OT Medicare assistant and therapy threshold reference

    A consolidated 2026 Part B guide to the CO modifier, payment adjustment, KX threshold and documentation.

  • Free

    Use an occupational profile to frame an OT evaluation

    Connect client priorities, daily occupations, context, and goals before choosing documentation fields.

  • Premium

    OT occupation-to-outcome audit

    Check whether goals, intervention, client response, and discharge reflect the client's chosen occupations.

Worksheets and builders

  • Free

    OT occupation and setting plan

    Make one practical service decision and list the current rules you must verify.

  • Free

    OT visit format and length

    Choose a visit setting, calendar length and payment route, then record what must be checked before offering it.

  • Premium

    Home & Community Visit Planner

    Organize travel zones, scheduling buffers, supplies, accessibility and staff check-in procedures. Use practice-level information only; keep patient details in your approved system.

  • Premium

    Occupational therapy capacity and payment

    Include evaluation, skilled visits, caregiver education, equipment and assistant oversight.

  • Premium

    Occupational Therapy claim verification plan

    Save the current payer and jurisdiction questions for one deidentified service scenario. No benefit or billing outcome is assumed.

  • Premium

    Occupational therapy denial follow-up plan

    Save the specific disputed issue, written evidence, filing route and next action without patient or claim identifiers.

Choose how you want to use the Learning Center

Free

$0

Begin with the complete 17-step startup guide, free resources and worksheets, a practice profile, and saved progress.

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Individual Premium

$15/month

Calculate fees and capacity, compare offers, export business reports, and use Premium pathways, specialty planners, editable builders, and billing tools for one provider login.

Choose Individual Premium

Practice Premium

$40/month

Give your practice up to five separate logins with owner-managed access. Additional logins are $5/month each.

Choose Practice Premium

Optional Practice Academy for occupational therapy

Give your practice a branded home for patient education, courses, assignments, and programs. Practice Academy is an optional $40/month add-on to Practice Premium ($80/month total per practice). Each practice controls and reviews its patient content before publishing.

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Questions about your specialty account

Can I select more than one specialty?

Yes. Choose the specialties you want at signup, or add them later in Account Settings. Switch between your selected workspaces while keeping specialty work separate. Practice owners manage the selection for team logins.

Can I upgrade without starting over?

Yes. Your account, saved worksheets, learning progress, and completed work stay with you when membership changes.

Do I have to complete everything in order?

Follow the startup pathway when you want structure, or open a focused resource or tool for the question you need to address today.

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Start building your occupational therapy practice

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