tci Part B Insider - 2010 Issue 34

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Practices that furnish Part B outpatient therapy can't afford to ignore physician fee schedule payment cuts that are poised to slash therapy reimbursement."Changes to payments under the physician fee schedule for outpatient therapy services have a significant and direct effect on Medicare payments across the entire spectrum of the therapy delivery system," noted physical therapist R. Scott Ward, president of the American Physical Therapy Association, in a comment on the proposed rule. APTA wants CMS to withdraw the multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) policy component.The policy, APTA argues, is based on incorrect assumptions and flawed methodology...

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