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[Dysphagia] Outpatient FEES
RE: Endoscopy/FEES/Strobe
My understanding has been that if a state licensure/practice act is
silent on the issue, the default position are the Medicare/Federal
guidelines which do permit SLPs to complete these procedures.
RE: Physician presence, I understand that the previous comment was
correct: in a hospital, a physician is presumed to be present somewhere.
Physician office regulations are more restrictive. The reason for this
is patient safety in the event of an adverse reaction NOT a competency
issue of having physician supervision of the procedure.
Michael Towey
Voice & swallowing Center of Maine
Waldo County Hospital
Belfast, ME
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Subject: Re: [Dysphagia] Outpatient FEES
By that standard, SLPs in PA cannot provide videofluoroscopy, either.
My point is merely pointing out the inconsistencies in the
interpretation of the lack of a state statute.
Pam Smith
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Subject: RE: [Dysphagia] Outpatient FEES
Whether it is call practice or title my position remains: the "act"
does not
specifiy that FEES is a service SLP's in PA can provide.
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Subject: Re: [Dysphagia] Outpatient FEES
The statements in the below posting are not entirely true. The
state of PA
does not HAVE a practice act. It has a TITLE act. This act does not
mention
endoscopy at all, but it also does not mention videofluoroscopy at all.
Therefore, in PA, we have no more so-called "authorization" to do
videofluoroscopy than we do FEES. Our statutes mention neither.
Misinterpretation of the LACK of legislation has led many to think that
the SLP
in PA cannot pass the scope, but there are PA SLPs who do endoscopy! In
many
cases the decision of either "Yes, you can" or "No, you can't" is made
by
administrators (who have the right to state facility policy) regardless
of what
the statutes do not mention. Or, the decision is made because this is a
relatively new procedure and people are checking the statutes, and,
finding
nothing, decide to play it safe. (This title act is fearfully outdated,
and
efforts are underway to revise it; these efforts have been going on for
a few
years now). Many would rather be cautious, but that doesn't mean they
are
following what the law - or lack thereof - supposedly says.
Interestingly,
people are not so cautious about videos although our state title act
doesn't
mention those, either.
The ability to bill Medicare has, I believe, more to do with
independent
practitioner status than state practice acts. To my knowledge, there is
nothing
in PA statute to prevent a PA SLP to do FEES in a nursing home, bill the
nursing
home in a contractual arrangement agreed upon by both, and the facility
bills
Medicare.
Pam Smith, Ph.D.
Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, PA
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Subject: Re: [Dysphagia] Outpatient FEES
My understading is that before we think about Medicare you have to
check the
state practice act. For instance in the state of PA there is a
concensus
that
an SLP can not do a FEES and bill Medicare.
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Subject: [Dysphagia] Outpatient FEES
I have been working with a few SLPs who recently completed a
course on
FEES.
They were told that an SLP could pass a scope in an acute care
setting
without a physician present in the room, however, a physician
must be
present during an outpatient procedure. The reasoning was that
it would
be a
given that there are physicians in hospitals, but not
necessarily in
outpatient clinics all the time. Their presenters reported that
this was
a
recent Medicare change for reimbursement, maybe in the past
year.
I did try to get on the Medicare website, but my internet
navigational
skills are not the best and so I could not find anything, if it
was
there.
Does anyone know anything about this? Any information would be
helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Kelly L. Newman, CCC-SLP
Columbus, Ohio
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