CMS Proposes Rule to Update Therapy Qualifications for Home Health and Hospice

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released proposed changes to personnel qualifications for home health physical, occupational and speech therapists, and physical and occupational therapy assistants. CMS said these changes would be an effort to replace outdated terminology, standardize qualifications across providers, and replace physical and occupational qualifications standards that have changed.…