Thursday, December 30, 2010

Busy, Busy, Busy...

The Rehab Optima teams are busy completing CMS-driven end of year updates, e.g., Physician Fee Schedules, CCI Edits, additions to Part B Cap Management and updating the therapy cap amount to $1870...Rehab Optima has you prepared for 2011!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The Season of Giving, Preparation and Patience!

The waiting is over, or, should we say, almost over…President Obama has signed the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010! While you know this law extended the therapy cap exceptions process and the physician fee schedule ‘doc fix’ through December of next year, restored the October 1st RUG-IV implementation date (Yay! No hybrid system!) and addressed several other key Medicare payment issues, you may not have known that the industry continues to await final, key decisions regarding the MPPR. No need for concern, as Rehab Optima developers are patiently standing by, anxious to implement functionality that will address processing the payment reductions when different therapy disciplines file the same code on the same day, once clarification from CMS is provided.

In the meantime, GiftRAP will continue to monitor CMS and FI/MAC websites for announcements related to LCD changes. With the change in status of the 95992 code, we anticipate more change, and patiently wait! Of course, Rehab Optima will deliver these "gifts" just as soon after announcements are made!