The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a clarification regarding the licensure requirements of a speech-language pathologist (SLP) who furnishes outpatient speech therapy services to an original Medicare beneficiary. CMS has clarified they will defer

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual to match the regulatory provision for the qualifications of speech-language pathologists (SLP’s) providing outpatient therapy services. This update has significant implications for the use of Clinical Fellow (CF) SLP’s. In this article, I will answer the following questions: