Exceptions to outpatient therapy caps expired on June 30. This means that outpatient therapy service providers should not submit claims with the modifier -KX for services furnished after July 1. CMS is working with Congress, healthcare providers, and the beneficiary community to avoid disruption of the following:

• Delivery of healthcare services      
• Payment of outpatient physical therapy      
• Occupational therapy and speech-language pathology claims for services that physicians, nonphysician practitioners, and therapists furnish and that are paid under the physician fee schedule