STUDY OF ANNUAL CAP ON AMOUNT OF MEDICARE PAYMENT FOR OUTPATIENT PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SERVICES.

SEC. 143. STUDY OF ANNUAL CAP ON AMOUNT OF MEDICARE PAYMENT FOR OUTPATIENT PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SERVICES. (a) Study.— The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall conduct a study of the appropriateness of continuing an annual limitation on the amount of payment for outpatient services of independently practicing physical and occupational therapists under the medicare program. (b) Report.— By not later than January 1, 1996, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate a report on the study conducted under subsection (a). Such report shall include such recommendations for changes in such annual limitation as the Secretary finds appropriate.