Skilled Nursing Facility Billing For Changes In Therapy: Improvements Are Needed (OEI-02-13-00611)

The report was released in June 2015, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The OIG reviewed skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims for changes in physical, speech, and occupational therapy from fiscal years 2010 through 2013. The goal was to determine how SNFs used Medicare assessments when increasing and decreasing therapy, and the extent to which SNFs used the new assessments incorrectly . . .