Eli's Rehab Report

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Answer: This new guideline doesn't apply to home health therapy providers. It only applies to therapists inprivate practices (group or individual). The key is whether you have and use an individual provider number.

Outpatient therapy is a service home health agencies are authorized to provide and bill for under the agency's Medicare Part A provider number, as opposed to the individual therapists' provider number. So, new rules that address waiting on individual credentials to bill under would be moot to the home health setting (or any other setting that doesn't bill under individual provider numbers).