Content that pushes boundaries.

Lagging Behind

In previous posts, we have focused our criticism on payors as rogue warriors in search of ever higher margins thru the impact of decreasing costs...

Value-Based Insurance Design

I read with great interest an article [2 week access] in Health Affairs written in part by Michael Chernew professor of health care policy at...

Time to Rally

As we stand by and await instructions on medicare’s $1.10  per visit raise (or whatever 1.5% is) for us for “voluntary” reporting beginning July 1,...

Why Have’s and Why Not’s

Over the last several weeks, we have received numerous questions in reactions to many of our posts, presentations, and comments.  The increasing frustration of private...

A PR Campaign we can get our hands around

In what I would deem as perhaps the best article on the financial and clinical efficacy of physical therapy in initial treatment of LBP ever...

Middlemen’s middleman

WSJ recently completed a series of articles (available for 7 days) on employer’s use of middlemen in their dealings with intermediaries to make sure they...

FTC Confirms that testimonials are not science

In what may be deemed the quote of the year, the FTC Chairman Ms. Deborah Platt Majoras has levied $25 million in fines to 4...

Up and Down

Holiday Greetings from the EIM team! In the last few weeks, we have seen some feature integration between the EIM blog and the myphysicaltherapyspace interface. ...

Top 10 Blogs-in no particular order

1. Freakonomics-forget what you learned in psychology and sociology on your way to becoming a therapist.  If you want to learn how humans really behave,...

Victory Oh Victory Not

The bad news.  We get a zero percent increase by a population where data shows that 11% access outpatient PT and we must remain complicit...