Lifting Medicare’s Annual Limits On Physical Therapy Helps Ease Patients’ Pain
“Physical therapy helps Leon Beers get out of bed in the morning and maneuver around his home using his walker. Occupational therapy strengthens the 73-year-old man’s throat muscles so that he can communicate and swallow food, says his sister, Karen Morse. But in mid-January, his home health care agency told Morse it could no longer provide these services because he had used all his therapy benefits allowed under Medicare for the year.”