It's that time of year when CMS proposes changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) that affect reimbursement, quality reporting, value-based care participation, telehealth, and patient access.
Here are some of the issues you may want to address, but please modify them to fit your practice. CMS does NOT want canned responses. Consider sharing how these proposals affect your patients, staff, technology costs, quality reporting efforts, recruitment, retention, or access to care in your community. Here's a summary of the key points to consider including in your comments:
- Support CMS's proposed practice expense methodology reforms.
- Address the impact of the proposed conversion factor reduction of 1.68%.
- Recognize the costs associated with functional outcome measures and PROMIS® reporting.
- Expand opportunities for PTs, OTs, and SLPs in prevention, population health, and fall prevention.
- Advance quality measures and value-based care models that reflect functional improvement, mobility, activities of daily living and self-care, fall prevention, and patient engagement.
- Ensure specialty-appropriate measures are available before sunsetting Traditional MIPS.
- Support continued access to telehealth services furnished by PTs, OTs, and SLPs.
- Reduce the administrative burden on small and independent therapy practices.
- Preserve flexibility in Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) programs.
We urge you to make your voice heard with CMS on these proposals by September 14, 2026. To do that, click the link below, which will take you to the CMS comment submission page. Submit comments here: https://www.regulations.gov/document/CMS-2026-2377-0002
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