Question:
Do you have any tips for respiratory therapy rehabilitation in 2024?
Answer:
There are a few points to focus on for 2024. First, understand the endpoint of treatment is not when the patient achieves maximal exercise tolerance or stabilizes, but when the patient or his attendant is able to continue the RTR at home. Note that Medicare does not cover maintenance care. Second, services for (RTR) must be medically reasonable and necessary and prescribed by a physician for the assessment, diagnostic evaluation, treatment, management, and monitoring of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of cardiopulmonary function. Finally, RTR should only be provided in the Outpatient (OP) departments of acute hospitals or in a Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF).
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