The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has provided updated guidance regarding Clinical Fellow (CY) speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and their ability to treat original Medicare beneficiaries for outpatient therapy services and have those services billed to the Medicare program. Here is what CMS is saying:

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: