For the past 20 years, a cap has existed on how much outpatient therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive each year, regardless of medical necessity. Since the policy’s enactment, Congress has stopped this "hard cap" on services by implementing multiple, temporary moratoria and "exceptions processes".
In order to fix the flawed "therapy cap" policy, Representatives Erik Paulsen (R-MN), Ron Kind (D-WI), Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN), and Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Dean Heller (R-NV), and Susan Collins (R-ME) have introduced the “Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017 (H.R. 807/S. 253) .” This bill would permanently repeal the therapy cap. ...