Regulatory & Compliance

A Decade of Shrinking Medicare Payments Navigating the financial landscape of healthcare has never been simple, but for outpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapy providers, the last ten years have felt like an uphill battle against a shrinking bottom line. For over a decade, CMS has steadily chipped away at payment rates under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). What started as minor budgetary adjustments has snowballed into a compounding, multi-year reduc