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09/03/24

FY 2025 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes

The fiscal year (FY)2025 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes have been released. These 2025 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes are to be used for outpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapy visits that occur between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. In this article, I will highlight some of the additions to the FY 2025 ICD-10-CM that may have an impact on physical, occupational, and/or speech therapy services.

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07/29/24

2025 MIPS Proposed Changes

On July 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule. This proposed rule addresses proposed changes for the 2025 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Performance Year. In this article, I will provide you with the proposed changes for MIPS in the 2025 Performance Year for the following topics:

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07/22/24

Medicare Estimated Payments for Outpatient Therapy in 2025

On July 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule. This proposed rule does have regulatory and reimbursement implications for outpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapy provided in all outpatient therapy settings. In this article, I will provide my members with the estimated payment amounts for calendar year 2025 for the more common CPT codes billed in outpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy compared to the 2024 payment rate for each CPT code. For my examples, I used the national payment averages for each CPT

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01/28/24

Remote Therapeutic Monitoring for Outpatient Physical and Occupational Therapy in 2025

This 2-hour webinar will teach patients how to provide, document, and bill for remote therapeutic monitoring services.

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12/27/23

2025 MIPS for Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech-Language Pathologists

This 2-hour webinar will assist physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists in private practices, office managers of private practices, administrators and owners of private practices, and billers and billing companies of private practices in their preparation to report MIPS for the 2024 Performance Period.

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12/10/23

2025 Outpatient Therapy Regulatory and Payment Updates

This webinar will provide participants with regulatory and payment changes that will impact outpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy services in calendar year 2025.

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