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Impact of the Final Rule to Therapy Providers
September 27, 2013
Categories: Articles
By: Mark McDavid, OTR, RAC-CT, Seagrove Consulting In this year’s SNF PPS Final Rule, CMS has provided for a 1.3% adjustment in the market basket which will increase SNF payments by approximately $470 million or about $7 per Medicare patient day. While this will impact your SNF or SNF client, a bigger impact may come from the changes related to therapy. Beginning October 1, therapy will be required to report both unique therapy days as well as the number of co-treatment minutes in section O provided... Read More
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Message from the Desk of NARA President
September 20, 2013
Categories: News
NARA CONFERENCE UPDATE 09.19.2013 NARA’s Fall Conference is only 26 days away...I can hardly believe it! If you have not signed up for our Fall Conference (October 16 - 18 at Disney's Yacht Club Resort in Orlando, Florida), I really want to encourage you to make attending this conference a priority. The theme of this conference is Navigating Rehab Industry Changes. With more pieces of Health Care Reform being implemented in 2014, this conference could not be timelier. Our Fall Conference has an... Read More