Kentucky limiting Medicaid beneficiaries' therapy visits
Rehab Regs, May 26, 2006
Looking to reducing the rapidly rising costs of Medicaid, Kentucky will limit beneficiaries to 15 therapy visits per year, reported the Associated Press (AP).
The state says that the limits, combined with other restrictions on prescriptions could save the program $100 million in the first two years.
Kentucky's Medicaid commissioner, Shannon Turner, told the AP that they were basing the therapy restrictions on plans common in the private insurance business.
Beneficiaries can exceed the limit if they can show medical necessity.
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