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By Kristen O’Brien, JD Vice President, McDermott+ Consulting Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the FY 2022 proposed rule for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), which updates payment rates, make adjustments ...

By Lisa Werner  It is important to keep the patient’s plan of care at the heart of the team’s decision making. While each team member creates their own discipline-specific plan of care, it is incumbent on each member to know what the plans written ...

By Remy Kerr, MPH, AMRPA Health Policy and Research Manager On March 15, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its March 2021 Report to Congress. In the report MedPAC included its standard chapters addressing each of the nine payment ...

By Peter W. Thomas, JD, Principal, and Joe Nahra, Director of Government Relations Powers Law Firm On March 15-17, AMRPA members will attend the 2021 Virtual Spring Conference & Congressional Fly-In to bring the voice of medical rehabilitation ...

Additional Guidance from CMS Changes Coding Methodology for COVID Patients By Lisa Werner  In last month’s blog post, I covered coding for COVID-19. Since that time, the following additional guidance from CMS was issued that changes the methodology ...