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Medicare Part B Therapy Services Changes for Fiscal Year 2025: Part 2

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the Final Rule for the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), or Medicare Part B Rule, which will take effect on January 1, 2025. This comprehensive blog series outlines significant changes impacting therapy professionals, including Physical Therapists (PTs), Occupational Therapists (OTs), and Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs). If you missed Part 1, click here! New Rules for Therapy Practice Supervision of Assistants in Private Practice Settings The significant change…

Has Your Organization Created a Compliance Work Plan for 2025?

As we near the end of 2024, organizations should be preparing and planning for 2025. Part of this preparation is developing a 2025 Compliance Work Plan to establish your organization’s focus areas. Your organization’s work plan should include compliance, privacy, security and may even include legal. Some of the elements may include operations, developing policies and procedures, training, and auditing and monitoring. The items included should be areas that need to be improved or developed…

What is the New Nursing Facility ICPG?

Just last month the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) put out an Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities (Nursing Facility ICPG). Since 1998, the OIG has been issuing voluntary Compliance Program Guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry. At the center of this CPG modernization effort is the OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG), a reference guide for the health care compliance community…