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Providers tell legislators low Medicaid rates threaten access to PT, OT and SLP services
Summary
Representative Ed Buttrey told the Senate Business and Labor Committee House Bill 585 would set Medicaid reimbursement for PTs, OTs and SLPs by multiplying a conversion factor by relative value units and include a possible CPI index for future years.
Representative Ed Buttrey introduced House Bill 585 to the Senate Business and Labor Committee as a proposal to change Medicaid reimbursement for physical therapists (PT), occupational therapists (OT) and speech‑language pathologists (SLP). The bill uses conversion factors multiplied by relative value units to set rates and includes an optional inflation adjustment tied to the Consumer Price Index for later years.
Buttrey said the professions were excluded from a 2022 rate study that reset other Medicaid provider categories and that the current fees do not cover labor and overhead. “When a physical therapist sees a patient, they lose about $44 an hour,”…
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