tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 30

Rehab: 75-Percent Rule Not Here Yet

Some in Congress want to keep IRF compliance threshold at 50 percent.Rehab providers that wished that the 75 percent rule would stop in its tracks might see that dream realized - if a group of Congressmen and hospital organizations get their way. If passed, the "Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2005" would sustain the current 50 percent compliance threshold for inpatient rehabilitation facilities for an additional two years, says Federation of American Hospitals president Chip Kahn in a July 14 press release.  Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Rick Santorum (R-PA), and representatives...

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