tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 30

Part B: New Therapy Assessment Tool On Its Way

Your Part B therapy payments may soon resemble OASIS and PPS Yearning for the day when the Medicare outpatient therapy caps no longer plague your home health agency's Part B business? In 18 months, you'll be back at square one with the exceptions process expiring once again.The good news: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hoping to break that pattern by developing alternatives for Part B therapy payments. CMS' Developing Outpatient Therapy Payment Alternatives (DOTPA) project is in the birthing stages of its five-year lifespan -- and now's the time to voice important concerns to CMS...

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