Comment on Potential 8% Cut to Occupational Therapy Services by Sept. 27

You may have heard that the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (MPFS) contains a potential 8% cut to reimbursement for therapy services in 2021. This potential decrease stems from the proposed payment increases to Evaluation and Management (E&M) services and the Medicare budget neutrality policy. The MPFS proposes to increase the values of E&M services in 2021. However, due to budget neutrality policies, an increase in one code set requires decreases in other