Outpatient Outlook: Get Ready: Therapy Caps Exceptions Hang on a String for 2012

U.S. House and Senate hammering out a last-minute fix.

Once again, outpatient therapists face more than their share of holiday stress with a plummeting SGR and therapy cap exceptions expiring in 2012. It's the same old story every December, with similar last-minute Congressional bailouts, but this year, Congress is drafting some fixes with a different twist.

Cross Your Fingers for the House Version

The House of Representatives recently drafted HR 3606, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, which includes not only an extension to the therapy cap exceptions process, but also changes the 27.4 percent cut to the Medicare Physician [...]

- Published on 2011-12-29