MM12315 - Low Utilization Payment Adjustment (LUPA) Add-on Amounts for Home Health (HH) Occupational Therapy Visits
In this Article, you’ll learn about:
• Changes to Original Medicare systems to allow LUPA add-on payments to apply if an occupational therapy visit is the first visit in a period of care
• Affects on Occupational Therapists (OTs)
• How we compute the OT LUPA add-on payment
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: November 09, 2021
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