tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 33

PHYSICAL THERAPISTS: Rehab Professionals Face 10-Percent Payment Cuts

No phase-in could hit physical therapists hard.If you've worried over the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Five-Year Review of Work Relative Value Units under the Physician Fee Schedule, you're not alone.Your professional associations have released comments on CMS' proposed rule and are crossing their fingers that Congress will take some action before the year's end.In particular, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has expressed concern about the severity of CMS' projected payment cuts for 2007, according to PT Bulletin Online.Without a phase-in, a proposed budget-neutrality adjustment in work values, combined with a negative...

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