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…
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.…
2021 will have quite a few changes for CMS in store Philosophers who studied Plato as well as Hermes quoted that “the only thing consistent in this great world of ours is change”. It is known in physics and in science, that nothing stays…
An Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage, or ABN, is a liability waiver form that is given when a healthcare provider or medical supply company thinks or knows Medicare will not cover something. Not every ABN is the same, some are skilled nursing facilities ABNs…
APTA warns that care could suffer in the pandemic environment Calling the proposal “unconscionable,” APTA warns against a CMS plan to dramatically cut Medicare payments to physical therapy and more than three dozen other professions in 2021. The latest effort, a letter to U.S.…
Outpatient Therapy Modernization and Stabilization Act (H.R. 7154) May Be The Good News We Have All Been Looking For Regarding Medicare Services Looking for some good news for Medicare services? After months of hearing about upcoming cuts and negative changes there is some new…
New CMS guidance allows PTs to make full use of telehealth after APTA wins battle with6 CMS The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will now include PTs in private practice among the providers able to bill for services provided through real-time face-to-face…
How physical therapists and telehealth are being enabled by CMS to better assist you during the COVID-19 pandemic CMS guidance now allows physical therapists in private practice to make full use of telehealth with their patients under Medicare Part B. Before this past week…
Your Coronavirus update for April 29; join Elite weekly to stay informed More than 3 million cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been diagnosed worldwide as of Monday evening, including more than 208,000 deaths. Healthcare officials in the United States have reported nearly 970,000 positive…