tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 28

Home Care: Ensure Home Care Therapists Understand New Requirements

PTs, PTAs, OTs and OTAs have a slew of new Medicare standards. You aren't alone if you've been worried about the 2008 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule's restrictive statements on therapist qualifications. From foreign-trained therapists to therapy assistants who became full-fledged therapists without going back to school, therapy providers across the nation who received their credentials via non-traditional routes have feared for their jobs. And home care providers short of therapists have worried about their staffing.The good news: In Transmittal No. 88 (CR 5921), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services spells out more detailed requirements for PTs, PTAs...

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