Duration is the amount of time spent in direct service for a single unit. Duration is the cumulative amount of direct service that was provided. A unit of service must be completed within the same calender date. Frequency is the number of times the service objective will occur during a given period of time. In order to accurately compute the duration and frequency on your objective page, you must know your procedure code duration limits.
Some codes are daily, some hourly, and others fifteen minutes.
This means that residential habilitation, day habilitation, prevocational and supported employment can be more than one hour in duration because they are daily rates. For daily rate habilitation services the cumulative duration is shown as one hour because that is the mandate of the Division for the amount of time training is required in each service. You may demand more than that within the goal page but the required duration remains one hour. In-home support can never be longer than one hour because it is an hourly rate. The provider may actually spend one hour rendering services but if the duration is shown as 15 minutes then they would record four units for billing purposes.