tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 22

Home Health: Associations Team Up To Alleviate OT Headaches

If CMS makes OT a qualifying service, scheduling could get a whole lot easier.A pair of trade groups has joined forces and taken issue with Medicare's rules regarding reimbursement on patients that need only occupational therapy. The American Occupational Therapy Association and the National Association for Home Care and Hospice are planning to bend the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' ear on a long-standing difference of opinion regarding OT as a qualifying service for home health. The basics: CMS and its contractors maintain that for a home health patient to receive OT services, the OT must initiate...

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