CMS has announced that it will delay enforcement or evaluation of the physician supervision requirements for therapeutic services provided to outpatients of Critical Access Hospitals for the duration of the 2010 calendar year. These requirements, initially set forth in its 2010 OPPS Final Rule, involve “direct supervision” over therapeutic services furnished in hospital outpatient departments and are difficult for many CAHs to meet. CMS plans to revisit the issue of supervision of therapeutic services provided to hospital outpatients in CAHs through the annual rulemaking cycle for CY 2011.
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