Content that pushes boundaries.

A Good First Post: meta-analysis

I am quite sure that many of you probably thought my first post of 2008 would be something about medicare and the increase in fee...

What is the difference?

A recent court decision in New Jersey determined that doctors who own outpatient-surgery centers in North Jersey are in violation of a state law prohibiting self-referral. ...

Cost Advantage

One way that you can successfully market PT is by simply pointing out to appropriate stakeholders that you can “get a lot of PT for...

A Novel Idea

The Washington Post reports that Congress has found a new way to attack the proposed 10% cuts in medicare reimbursement-renew the moratorium on physician-owned specialty hospitals...

Unintended Consequences Redux

Many comments and emails to me regarding the unintended consequences post.  I blogged about this due to the fascinating admission by Pete Stark that the...

Let’s See……….

Soon to be in the news: Medicare to freeze implementation of reduction in fee schedule. Although this is purely a predicton, in light of today’s...

Unintended Consequences

When the name of the person who created the laws admits that it created more opportunities than it sought to halt, you know you have...

Think Compliance doesn’t matter?

Then think again. Many in the PT industry are taking the news of Stryker Medical Corp’s former Physiotherapy Associates (now part of a private equity...

Exception to the Exception Part II

Let’s say that you are sitting at home reading your favorite blog (evidence in motion of course) and you receive a call from your Senator...

Support the Exception to the Moratorium of the Exception Process Part I

Don’t laugh. History has demonstrated that we will be asked to support such lunacy in a few years.  I would rather support the elimination of...