With some-more than one million Medicare beneficiaries during risk for being denied required outpatient therapy services, a American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), a American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), and a American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) are seeking Congress to embody a permanent dissolution of a therapy top in new legislation introduced final week to repair a injured tolerable expansion rate (SGR). SGR is a calculation used for payment of providers for outpatient Medicare services.
The Medicare therapy top and SGR were combined when Congress upheld a Balanced Budget Act in 1997. The stream offer to dissolution a SGR usually includes a two-year patch for a therapy top – a unsure proceed for Medicare beneficiaries. Without being trustworthy to a incomparable Medicare remodel bill, there is no pledge Congress will take adult a therapy top emanate in 2 years.
“We need a full dissolution of a existent caps on earthy therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology services. These annual financial caps extent services mostly indispensable after a stroke, dire mind injury, or spinal cord injury, or to effectively conduct conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, mixed sclerosis, and arthritis. Arbitrary caps on these critical Medicare outpatient therapy services are simply unacceptable,” pronounced Senator Ben
