Home Health & Hospice Week
CMS Proposes Relaxation Of Speech Therapist Requirements
COP change one of the provisions in PPS proposed rule.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to make your life potentially easier, in one way at least.
According to the 2015 home health pro-spective payment system proposed rule, CMS wants to defer to state licensure requirements for speech-language pathologists, rather than having its own criteria. “We propose to require that a qualified SLP be an individual who has a master’s or doctoral degree in speech-language pathology, and who is licensed as a speech-language pathologist by the State in which he or she furnishes such services,” CMS says in the 2015 home health prospective payment system rule issued July 1.
“All states license SLPs; therefore, all SLPs would be covered by this option,” adds the rule scheduled for publication in the July 7 Federal Register.
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