Exceptions Process

'Tis nursing home conference season

October 22, 2010

It's hard to believe we're in the midst of another conference season. The American Health Care Association's annual meeting already has passed and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging's is about a week away.
 

AHCA gears up for annual therapy caps fight, pushes to reform therapy rule

October 13, 2010

As the end of the year approaches, long-term care providers will be lobbying to extend the therapy caps exceptions process, which is set to end Dec. 31. Another therapy issue—a proposed rule to reduce payments when multiple therapy procedures are provided to a Medicare beneficiary in one day—also is on providers' radar screens.
 

Groundhog Day for Medicare physician payment cuts

April 14, 2010

There's a game called the "temporary doc fix." Congress plays it every year and I'm beginning to tire of it.
 

Senate passes bill extending FMAP, therapy caps exceptions process

March 11, 2010

The Senate Wednesday passed a pivotal bill that would extend for six months the temporary increase in states Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP). It also would extend the Medicare Part B therapy caps exceptions process through Dec. 31, and delay a 21% Medicare payment cut for physicians until Oct. 1.
 

Senate takes out therapy caps, physician pay provisions from jobs bill

February 16, 2010

Just hours after unveiling a jobs bill that would extend the therapy caps exceptions process and delay a pay cut for Medicare physicians, Senate leaders last week scrapped it in favor of a bill that contains neither of those provisions.
 

Senators propose stop-gap measure on implementation of Medicare Part B therapy caps

February 05, 2010

One bipartisan group of senators is petitioning Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to postpone implementation of the cap on Medicare Part B outpatient therapy reimbursements.
 

Extension of therapy caps exceptions process hinges on healthcare reform passage

January 08, 2010

Whether or not you are a fan of healthcare reform, here's one reason Congress should pass it: It would extend the therapy caps exceptions process.
 
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