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Comparative Effectiveness Research- Great Opportunity for PT

What is being hailed as a victory for drug companies who made sure somehow to insert into the final bill, should actually be a super opportunity...

Anybody Have Ideas on this?

As to what this means for us, taken from this summary of the Economy Recovery Stimulus Act: Funding for Health Information Technology (IT) through Medicare...

TED’s Practical Wisdom

Just off a great week at TED in Long Beach.  Although by no means a health care conference (that would be TEDMED 2009), there are...

Executive Program in Practice Management: a First Class, first class

A few weekends ago, the first class of EIM’s Executive Program in Private Practice Management gathered in Louisville, KY for the first weekend intensive.  20+...

Read the fine print

Per WSJ today, the North American Spine Society (NASS) under pressure from lawmakers is requiring that docs who are under the payroll of medical device-companies...

Nurses are now in the physical therapy business

at least according to this news release. Transitional Physical Therapy-now there’s an interesting term.  How about this gem: Over the years, OrthoCareRN has been able...

CMS Quality Initiatives Released

Here you go-enjoy reading it this weekend! PQRI is highlighted as a volunteer program that allows physicians to measure quality care for their medicare patients....

Ingenix and their phony databse

Kudos to Andrew Cuomo for finally busting Ingenix and their “usual and customary” database.  Ingenix is part of our good friends UnitedHealth Group-easily the most...

Shifting Positions is No Position-Get Rid of Caps Permanently (and some other things)

On Dec 19th , our national association wrote a letter to U.S Senator Max Baucus on the Call To Action Health Care Reform 2009 which proposes...

My Old Kentucky Home

Here I go popping off about how grossly over rated the savings for healthcare information technology when all of the sudden, my home state announces a...