[NoobRep]

This doesn't technically appear to be tied to Obamacare. It's part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, which Obama signed in Feburary. Reason I bring this up is my mom works in a Physical Therapy Rehab center and she said they are meeting to go through the new requirements. It looks to me like Part B caps for outpatient therapy have always been exempted but as of October 1st, the caps go in to place at $1880 per year. Know how much a single visit involving speech therapy and rehab costs? In the neighborhood of $650. Now there won't be any part B reimbursements above that anymore. Maybe someone else can elaborate?

[WVKayaker]

"You gotta pass it to know what's in it..."

But, what they don't tell you is "watch the other hand"!

[snowrip]

I can elaborate.

Like any of the other names Obama chooses for his mandates, the irony in “Middle Class Tax Relief and Jobs Creation Act” is so thick you can cut it with a chainsaw.

[Bryanw92]

The government is broke and the people can’t afford to pay more. Every spending cut is going to gore someone’s ox. It really doesn’t matter though, because once we roll off the fiscal cliff and hit bottom, all benefits will be cut.

[ebersole]

There have been caps for Medicare Part B OP therapy for a long time though the amounts have changed and PT, OT and SP have not been exempt.
What a facility will charge for an OP visit may be $650 but what is allowable and reimbursed under Medicare is significantly less.

The total reimbursed amount will vary depending on the CPT-4 coding that the therapist use.

[GeronL]

If Bush did this the DU would have melted down...

[9YearLurker]

If a single outpatient visit involving speech therapy and rehab costs $650 that’s criminal. It’s highway robbery and the government (that is, taxpayers) shouldn’t be paying it.

[ArmstedFragg]

Gotta replace those three year old executive chairs in the administration wing....

[Jim Noble]

It's part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012

Who comes up with these names?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Medicare in Obamacare.