Important Update: Congress Eases Medicare Cuts in End-of-Year Package
Yesterday, Congress passed an end-of-year COVID-19 stimulus package with a provision to ease the drastic Medicare cuts to physical & occupational therapy that are set to go into effect on January 1, 2021! This legislation will delay reimbursement cuts and inject additional funding into the CY2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which will reduce cuts to…
Efforts to Prevent 2021 Specialty Cuts from Going Into Effect Gains Traction in Congress
With the clock counting down to the end of the 116th Congress, bipartisan lawmakers in the House and Senate recently sent a trio of letters to congressional leadership urging them to support legislative efforts to prevent harmful Medicare cuts to specialty providers from going into effect on January 1. Concerned over the severe reimbursement reductions…