New study analyzes reimbursement trends for minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery, one of the fastest-growing areas of orthopedics “A Comprehensive Analysis of Medicare Reimbursement to Physicians for Common Arthroscopy Procedures: Adjusted Reimbursement has Fallen Nearly 30% from 2000 to 2019,” printed in the December issue…
Proposed 9 percent reduction will ultimately be closer to 3 percent For most of 2020, APTA worked against a proposed 9 percent reduction in payment to PTs under Medicare. But some good news came in two waves in the first days of 2021, considerably…
As many clinicians are now aware, The American Medical Association (AMA) published a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code on September 8, 2020 that accounts for extra provisions to ensure patient and provider safety during a public health emergency. At that time, they announced that the code is effective immediately: CPT 99072 – Additional supplies,…
Restoration of banned codes considered a victory for practitioners (Editor’s Note: The following is an APTA summary of a major legislative breakthrough that occurred late last week.) After an on-again, off-again approach to rules affecting the billing of code pairs that represent common, appropriate…
New HHS rule changes remove restrictions HHS has announced changes to its rules around how providers who received relief funds need to calculate how much of that money they can keep. The latest shift, announced Oct. 22, moves away from restrictions that forced providers…
Medicare has closed its window for accepting comments on the upcoming cuts to therapy reimbursements, but the fight continues. The American Physical Therapy Association and many of it’s members, stakeholders, federal lawmakers, and other professions that will be hurt by the cut have not…
A Nationwide estimate states that the rate of uninsured children could be as high as 6% A new study published by researchers at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families shows the rate of uninsured children in the U.S. grew to its highest level…
How To Fix the Doctor/Patient Relationship Alejandro Badia, MD, is the owner and operator of Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Doral, FL, located near Miami. He’s spent 30 years ‘in the trenches’ of the U.S healthcare system, from his undergraduate work at Cornell…
Estimates say 47,000 professionals communicate directly with lawmakers Capitol Hill lawmakers received a direct response to a proposed 9% cut to Medicare payment in the form of over 47,000 members of the physical therapy profession. The latest advocacy infusion came by way of APTA’s…
The American Physical Therapy Association recently announced that CMS is moving ahead with damaging coding edits it had previously deleted. This means that it will reverse course and reinstate previously deleted coding “edits” for code pairs that represent common and appropriate physical therapy practice.…