Next Event: Your First Look at the 2027 New Speech Therapy CPT Codes
Date: July 15,2026
Congress Passes Legislation Impacting Outpatient Therapy in 2025
The United States House of Representatives and United States Senate have passed the “American Relief Act, 2025“. This legislation includes and excludes provisions that will impact outpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapy services in calendar year 2025. In this article, I will provide answers to the following questions:
CMS Publishes 2021 MPFS Conversion Factor
On January 5, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the revised conversion factor (CF) for services reimbursed under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year 2021. This would include outpatient therapy services provided in all outpatient therapy settings except for critical access hospitals since critical access hospitals are not reimbursed under the MPFS. The revised 2021 CF for services paid under the MPFS is In addition, I have created an excel spreadsheet that provides the Medicare allowed amount for the most common CPT codes billed by physical, occupational and speech therapy for calendar year