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Medicare: Lawsuit challenges controversial policy

Medicare's policy on therapy comes under attack Lawsuit charges government

with illegally denying care to thousands of chronically ill recipients

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By

Judith Graham, Tribune Newspapers

6:21 p.m. CST, January 18, 2011

The federal government is illegally denying thousands of chronically ill

Americans needed therapies and medical services, five national organizations

charged Tuesday in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in

Vermont<http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-medicare-lawsuit-20110118,0,\

7699963.story#>

..

The class action lawsuit is the first to mount a broad challenge to a

controversial

Medicare<http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-medicare-lawsuit-20110118,0\

,7699963.story#>policy

requiring that patients achieve demonstrable improvements in

functioning in order to qualify for physical, speech and occupational

therapy and skilled

nursing<http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-medicare-lawsuit-20110118,0,\

7699963.story#>care.

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