Preserving payments for OT services under Medicare Part B

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) included cuts to services provided by occupational therapy practitioners (OTPs) and dozens of other Medicare health care providers. The proposed 4.42% cut to the fee schedule’s conversion factor would be in addition to cuts to the fee schedule from 2020 and 2021. AOTA is working with a broad coalition of health providers, not only to stop these and other cuts to the MPFS but to secure increases to the MPFS to help offset the cost increases caused by inflation.