08/23/21
Outpatient Therapy in the Home: FAQs
With an increase in private practices, especially solo practices, providing outpatient therapy in a patient’s home, I am receiving more and more questions regarding the regulatory, billing and payment rules. In addition, due to COVID-19, rehabilitation agencies and hospital outpatient therapy departments are sending their therapists to a patient’s home to provide outpatient therapy services. In this article, I will provide answers to the following questions: Does the Medicare program pay for outpatient therapy provided in a beneficiaries home? For Medicare purposes, what is considered a patient’s home? Do Medicare Advantage plans and commercial insurance carriers pay for outpatient therapy
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