Important Step Taken to Repeal the Therapy Cap More Action Needed to Guarantee Passage by the End of the Year

At the end of October, the three Congressional Committees that oversee the Medicare Outpatient Therapy Cap announced that they had reached a bi-partisan bicameral (both House and Senate) agreement on a policy framework that would permanently repeal the therapy cap. The draft policy, which must still go through the usual legislative process, would repeal the therapy caps but continue with some activities to assure appropriate utilization: requiring an appropriate modifier (the KX