Content that pushes boundaries.

Glad the OMB reads the New Yorker

I read with great interest this blog post from the Office of Management and Budget’s director Peter Orszag about tough questions from healthcare including how...

Reduced Treatment Time on LBP from 66 to 12 Days

Another article regarding Seattle’s Virginia Mason Hospital and their use of the Toyota Production System Model to re-engineer healthcare.  Primary example is getting a patient...

Quality Initiative within CMS is an Optional Reimbursement Cut

I am referring to the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). This voluntary program provides financial incentive to physicians and other eligible professionals who successfully report...

Random Thoughts on Profession of Physical Therapy

So many thoughts, so little time to blog.  Thought I would send out some randomness: -If anybody doesn’t think that we are our own worst...

NY Insurer CEO doubles salary in concurrent attempt at making PT extinct

HIP/EMBLEM a NY insurer that covers 4 million lives of government workers primarily has just reduced the global fee from $55 to $45 statewide citing...

Mayo’s Version for Fixing Broken Health Care

If ever there was a case besides Virginia Mason’s example in savings in healthcare, it is this one from the guru’s themselves-Mayo Clinic. Patient’s don’t...

Direct Access for Physical Therapists in California

Yes, he discloses immediately that his wife is a private practice PT, however, this judge’s op-ed piece has all the background information that you need....

AllTop Physical Therapy News

Miuch thanks to our good friends at Alltop, particularly Neenz and Guy for adding physical therapy news to Alltop, one of my personal favorite sites...

No Home in Medical Home

In the US, we are fascinated by finding easy answers to complex problems.  Nowhere is this more prevalent than in health care where we have...

Physical Therapy Law and Order

or maybe it should be PT CSI? In either show, it would be a well played drama In what is most likely the largest fraud...