tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 9

THERAPY: Overcome Therapy Caps With New Exceptions Process

What you don't know could cost your Part B therapy business $1,000sThe new Medicare reimbursement caps for outpatient therapy could drastically limit the therapy services you provide in your office--unless you know the ropes.Congress originally passed the caps, which apply only to outpatient rehabilitation therapy provided under the Part B benefit, in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The caps do not apply to therapy furnished under the home care benefit.But then Congress relented and repeatedly postponed the therapy caps. Finally, the caps took effect Jan. 1.However, in the Deficit Reduction Act passed in January...

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