Next Event: 2026 Outpatient Therapy Regulatory and Payment Updates
Date: November 19,2025
As of October 20, 2025, the government remains in a shutdown. What does the shutdown mean for coverage and payment of outpatient therapy services under the Medicare program? Here is the latest:
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I’m in Florida and I have 706 claims in the pending file and 3 on the payment floor. The pending file keeps growing, while the payment floor file stays the same. Hopefully that transition to payment begins soon!
As to point #3….we do not do telehealth but have received no payments for October dates of service yet. How do we find out if we are in a locality affected by the GPCI?