Physical Therapy is Not a Zero Sum Game
For the third time in the last few weeks, a payor has described significant increases in profits during this third quarter. Aetna reports that their...
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California Docs Beware of the Ethical Physical Therapy Association
Fresh off a great Private Practice Section Meeting in Washington D.C. last week. For all of you in private practice, this is the meeting to...
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Medicare Timing and Private Practice Section Meeting #PPS
Nov 2: Two Courts Ruled that Medicare improperly denied physical therapy services. We all know that medicare policy is to let debilitated patients decline and...
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Secrets of the System
WSJ has been running a series on Medicare entitled “Secrets of the System”. The first article focused on medicare’s database and the problem with transparency...
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That Which Seeks to Kill Will Only Make Me Stronger: ACO’s,Obamacare, and Private Practice PT
Video Killed the Radio Star. At least that was the message MTV brought us with its debut almost 30 years ago (back when National Physical...
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P4P Criticism in NY Times – AGAIN!
Since our first post about P4P in June 2005, this blog has been unabashed in its criticism of P4P. NY TImes had already ran an...
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PT Dilemma: Different Insurance Types – Addressed
I posed the following scenario a few days ago for the vast readership of this blog: 3 patients are seen back to back by the...
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PT Dilemma: Same Treatment Approach for Different Insurance Types?
I have been involved in some interesting PT discussions around the concept of treating patients according to their health insurance. The opinions have been wide...
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Expansion of Practice – Nurses can teach us a few things
While our profession continues to go down a path that restricts and contracts our own scope of practice, you have to admire the way nurses...
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Isn’t it Conflict of Interest?
When two Government officials and an ex-official publish an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine that essentially says “Docs, get with it and embrace...