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Clinical Transformation: Hard Work, Big Payoff

Virginia Mason as an example, from today’s Health Affairs Blog. THE BEST sentence is at the end:  “ultimate accountability is not to Medicare, or health...

PThelpforHaiti.org Update

Back in May, 2010 we posted a story of our collaborative efforts in Jacmel, Haiti post earthquake with an encouragement to come and volunteer with...

Physical Therapists as “Hot Spotters”

A few weeks ago, New Yorker ran an excellent, must-read article by Dr. Atul Gawande entitled Hot Spotters with a subtitled question: Can we lower...

Social Nation. Can Healthcare Participate?

This post is a combination of a book review (something I do quarterly for a national business group) and a challenge about how its use...

Living on a Cloud

Have you ever wondered why so few physical therapy clinics use electronic medical records when other health care professionals have broadly adopted this as an...

1,000 Awesome Things about Physical Therapy

If you haven’t had a chance to watch any TED talks in the last few years, I would highly recommend that you put it on...

Medicare Abuse Reported in WSJ-The Issue behind the Issue

Dear WSJ: I loved your article Confidentiality Cloaks Medicare Abuse regarding physical therapy billings and your previous article Top Spine Surgeons Reap Royalties on the questionable...

Dear Santa…

…physical therapists have been good little boys and girls this year.  While some have mistakenly interpreted the recent extension to the extension on the exceptions...

November Filings

November filings (ok, hashtags #): #Governmentatwork.  CMS contracts CSC for a multi year contract to put together Short Term Alternatives for Therapy Services (STATS) and...

November Time to File

Lots of stuff sitting on my desk and time to do the mid month file cabinet routine and am now incorporating hashtags #: -file under...