Advertisement  
   Forum Home CyberPT Home Page      
Forum Home Forum Home > Physical Therapy Professional Forum > General Discussion
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Important Therapy Updates from CMS
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Important Therapy Updates from CMS

 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Message
Previous CPT Forum View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: Jun 24 2008
Status: Offline
Points: 131
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Previous CPT Forum Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Important Therapy Updates from CMS
    Posted: Jul 08 2008 at 12:53am

PT Guy

22 Posts
 
Posted - 11/05/2007 :  11:26:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
CMS has just published a new guidance in anticipation of a November 27th Transmittal with some policy changes for Medicare effective January 1st, 2007.

LINK: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PhysicianFeeSched/downloads/CMS-1385-FC.pdf

Pages 607-640 are pertinent to therapy.

Important Therapy updates include:

Changes in the outpatient recertification requirement from once every 30 days to once every 90 days in all settings, including CORF's. This becomes effective January 1, 2008.

Pages: 637-638

By mid- year 2008 CMS has stated that they will provide manual clarification regarding the implementation of applicable outpatient policies to the inpatient hospital setting. as well as implementation of new qualification standards of who can provide and be reimbursed for skilled therapy services from the outpatient setting to all settings. (This rule will have a 2 year delay in implementation.) page 631

Additional Consideration of student supervision comparable to SNF "line of sight" is being considered. Page 636

Back to Top
Sponsored Links


Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply
  Share Topic   

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 11.03
Copyright ©2001-2015 Web Wiz Ltd.

This page was generated in 0.078 seconds.