Representatives Urge CMS to Allow Occupational Therapy Practitioners to Provide Therapy to Medicare Beneficiaries via Telehealth

A group of bipartisan Representatives submitted a letter to Alex Azar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), urging HHS and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue Guidance to enable occupational therapy practitioners and other therapy practitioners to provide therapy services via telehealth during the COVID-19 emergency. CMS has already taken an important first step by