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#Physicaltherapy and the Practice of Medicine

While many will be celebrating Father’s Day tomorrow, important policy matters will be rigorously debated by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association....

What’s the Single Best Exercise?

Dear New York Times Magazine: I am a huge fan of your magazine.  In fact, reading it is part of my Sunday ritual.  I was...

Accountability in #physicaltherapy RC 03-11

Roughly one year ago, we had 2 blog posts regarding RC 15-10  that the Private Practice Section was moving forward to the 2010 House of...

April #Physicaltherapy stuff

Barely into April, we see lots of interesting news items happening in our PT world: Hypocrisy  Calif AMA Charlie Sheen wasn’t the only piece of...

Time for PTs to Start Appealing Denials En Masse-The Antidote for #physicaltherapy Benefit Management Firms

Ok, you know the routine.  You have a contract with a large insurance company that has decided to contract with a specialty benefit management firm...

March Madness Filings for #Physicaltherapy

Lots of miscellaneous activities in the PT world that I need to file in my Evernote with appropriate tags: #revisionisthistory  Several years ago, a chief...

Fraud In #Physicaltherapy

There are many in our profession that believe that fraud in physical therapy is common-I am not one of them.  Outpatient PT in medicare is...

Just Press Play

Gone are the days of paperback novels, letter writing and printed bank deposits. We are in the digital age and access to everything is a smart...

Slam Dunk. KY CoPay wins 98-0 in House.

All it awaits is signature by the Governor. What started out as a mere attempt to introduce legislation in a KY “short session” steamrolled.  As...

Excessively High Copays in #Physicaltherapy: How you can help

Perhaps one of the biggest problems facing physical therapy is the absurd increases in the last few years of patient copays in private insurance plans....