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(2) Have successfully completed a nationally-
accredited educational program that confers eligibility for
the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) registry
exams, and have passed the registry examination
administered by the NBRC, or
(3) Have equivalent training and experience as
determined by the National Board for Respiratory Care
(NBRC) and passed the registry examination administered by
the NBRC.
2. Social and Psychological Services
In the CY 2008 PFS final rule with comment period
(72 FR 66297), we clarified that all CORF services,
including social and psychological services, must directly
relate to or further the rehabilitation goals established
in the physical therapy, occupational therapy,
speech-language pathology, or respiratory therapy plan of
treatment. We believe that using a full range of clinical
social and psychological CPT codes to describe CORF social
and psychological services is inappropriate because social
and psychological CORF services do not include independent
clinical treatment of mental, psychoneurotic, and
personality disorders. CPT codes 96150 through 96154 and
CPT codes 90801 through 90899 are inappropriate for CORF
use because all of these CPT codes represent full-scale
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