RE: AOTA site

[SadieMoon]

Chuck - Yes, I have contacted my Rep and Senators several times already.  What I am looking for now is anyone's guess or opinion as to what will happen.  I haven't heard lately about the OT being able to skill home health cases alone ( initially, since OT can already keep a patient skilled once a skilled need is established).  As a home health practitioner, this one is dear to my heart.  I would think it would be a very low cost change because at my agency, and I assume at many others, when we get referrals that could be  OT only, we find a PT or nursing need to skill the patient.  From what I could tell at AOTA site, this was included in the same Medicare modernization bill as another moratorium on the cap.  But I am sure each individual item is up for grabs as they try to hammer out something that also addresses prescription drug coverage.  So loo! sen up and give us a guess - we'll know it isn't carved in stone.  -- Jody