tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 1

THERAPISTS: Your Raise Is Only $40 -- Now Experts Weigh In On What Will Affect You Most

CMS offers 3 key changes to the therapy cap for outpatients.The therapy cap will go from $1,740 to $1,780 in 2007 for both PT/SLP and OT, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) says in Transmittal 1106. But that's not where the changes stop. Get to know these important highlights from the latest exceptions process. 1. Cap Amount Bumps Up Same as last year, the transmittal outlines two therapy cap categories: one for physical therapy (PT) and speech language pathology (SLP), and another for occupational therapy (OT). But CMS raised the therapy cap amount for...

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