Medicare and Medicaid programs; schedules of guidelines for physical therapy and respiratory therapy services. Health Care Financing Administration. Notice

Abstract

This notice updates the current schedules of salary equivalency guidelines for Medicare program reimbursement for the reasonable costs of physical therapy and respiratory therapy services furnished under an arrangement with a hospital or other provider. The schedules were published in the Federal Register on February 25, 1981, and are used by the program's fiscal intermediaries to determine the maximum allowable cost of such services. They are being updated to account for increases in inflation. The guidelines also apply to certain State Medicaid programs as indicated in the Supplementary Information.