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Physical therapists tell Senate committee federal Medicaid coding changes threaten home visits, small practices
Summary
Representatives of Vermont’s chapter of physical therapists told the Senate Health & Welfare committee that federal Medicaid evaluation-code changes will reduce reimbursements and could force private practices to stop Medicaid home visits and limit care for infants and rural patients.
Physical therapists representing the Vermont chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association told the Senate Health & Welfare committee on March 19 that federal changes to Medicaid evaluation coding risk cutting reimbursements for services they have billed for 15 years, threatening home-based early-intervention care and the viability of small private practices.
The therapists asked the committee to consider ways the state could cover nonbillable work — travel, team meetings and administrative coordination — and to explore grant or budget options to sustain services that keep children out of more intensive and more expensive school-based special-education placements.
“Heidi,” introduced to the committee as a Middlebury…
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