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Sefton Blog
Practical guides on billing, documentation, and multilingual care — from the team building Sefton.
Operations
How to switch EHRs without losing data: a calm migration checklist
Switching practice-management systems feels risky, but a clean migration comes down to a short checklist: export your data, map your fields, verify, and cut over. Here's how to do it without losing anything.
Company
Sefton has joined the NVIDIA Inception Program
Sefton is now a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program. What membership gives us, and how it fits the real-time multilingual pipeline we are building.
Language access
Language access in a therapy practice: what the law expects and what families need
Meaningful access under Section 1557 and Title VI for practices that take federal funds, why a translated portal is not enough, and a practical plan for interpretation, translated documents, and messaging.
Clinical practice
Writing therapy goals a payer and a parent can both read
A goal format that is measurable, functional, and short: the behavior, the condition, the criterion, the timeline, and the one sentence that explains why it matters at home.
Billing
The KX modifier and the therapy threshold: when and how to use it
What the annual therapy threshold is, what the KX modifier attests, how the targeted medical review threshold differs, and how to keep the documentation that makes KX defensible.
Clinical practice
Home programs families actually do
Why most home exercise programs die in a folder, and the five design choices (one skill, a trigger, the family's language, a check-off, and a feedback loop) that make them stick.
Billing
The 8-minute rule, explained with the arithmetic
How Medicare's 8-minute rule turns timed minutes into billable units, what changes when you mix timed and untimed codes, and the two mistakes that undercount most therapy claims.
Billing
How to reduce claim denials: the front-end habits that keep money moving
Most claim denials are preventable and start before the claim is ever sent. Here are the front-end habits — eligibility, clean coding, and timely filing — that keep denials low.
Billing
What is a superbill? A plain-language guide for patients and providers
A superbill is an itemized receipt your provider gives you to request reimbursement from your insurance for out-of-network care. Here's exactly what's on one and how to use it.
