Town Hall Meeting Provokes Excitement

The Town Hall at 5:30pm on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at the FPTA Annual Conference & Assembly of Representatives in Daytona Beach was...

Town Hall Meeting Provokes Excitement 2012-09-13T20:32:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

What's So Bad about Physical Therapy Documentation?

I subscribe to a number of web feeds - some good, some bad. I recieved the following e-mail the other day. It is a Medicare Compliance advic...

What's So Bad about Physical Therapy Documentation? 2012-02-17T08:26:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

PT Managers can now use TBC to set Long Term Goals

Physical therapy managers are always trying to find ways to: reduce paperwork (and spend more face-time with your patient) speed up producti...

PT Managers can now use TBC to set Long Term Goals 2010-02-16T05:48:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

The 10 Most Important Words in Evidence Based Physical Therapy

Bias – the systematic deviation from the truth. Atun Gawande, MD said it this way: "Three decades of neuropsychology research have sho...

The 10 Most Important Words in Evidence Based Physical Therapy 2009-09-10T11:38:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Treatment Based Classification and Skilled Physical Therapy

Treatment based classification slipped past me in 2003 when the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Section’s Meeting came to ...

Treatment Based Classification and Skilled Physical Therapy 2009-08-30T12:46:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Physical Therapists' Predictions Create Value for Patients and Society

Make predictions using walking speed as a diagnostic and prognostic predictive tool. Show medical necessity for Medicare physical therapy pa...

Physical Therapists' Predictions Create Value for Patients and Society 2009-07-14T09:26:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Classifying Physical Therapy, Nuclear Submarines and Cardiac Care Beds

The United States Navy had a problem. It was the early 1970’s and the height of the Cold War. US Navy submarines were playing cat-and-mouse...

Classifying Physical Therapy, Nuclear Submarines and Cardiac Care Beds 2009-06-17T06:01:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Medicare recognizes that PT documentation errors are not fraud

In a somewhat refreshing tone the Government Accounting Office issued a report that showed the US government made $18.6 billion in erroneous...

Medicare recognizes that PT documentation errors are not fraud 2009-05-05T05:25:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Compliance and competence

Physical therapists wrestle with clinical competence the way teenage girls look at themselves in the mirror and ask... "Am I pretty eno...

Compliance and competence 2009-03-09T19:01:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Medicare Compliance through Physical Therapist Competence

I got feedback on a post today on the Yahoo Groups PT Manager list-serve. I thought the post might be worth re-posting. (note: this is not ...

Medicare Compliance through Physical Therapist Competence 2009-01-14T18:10:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Physical Therapists use the ABN too much

Are you using the Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) too much? How much is too much? Most physical therapists' practices, in my o...

Physical Therapists use the ABN too much 2008-11-03T18:46:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Medicare Fraud Strike Force Indicts Eight in Miami

So far this and other Medicare actions in the South Florida area do not appear to have involved physical therapists. The Medicare Fraud Stri...

Medicare Fraud Strike Force Indicts Eight in Miami 2008-10-09T08:05:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Outpatient physical therapists under scrutiny by Office of the Inspector General

The OIG 2009 Work Plan has several areas that address outpatient physical therapists directly. Outpatient Physical Therapy Services Provide...

Outpatient physical therapists under scrutiny by Office of the Inspector General 2008-10-06T14:19:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Physical therapists and doctors: Get ready to hand over more documentation

Much in the news lately is the Office of the Inspector General Investigation of the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing Program. As I blogged ...

Physical therapists and doctors: Get ready to hand over more documentation 2008-08-28T14:16:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Medicare Auditors Get Spanked

Health care providers can expect this one to flow downhill like you-know-what. All across the blogosphere, reports of the draft report from ...

Medicare Auditors Get Spanked 2008-08-24T18:16:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Physical Therapists Watch out for auditors in U-haul trailers at your office!

Did you work all day treating patients? Tired? Ready to relax? But wait, don't you have to update your Medicare compliance plan? Remembe...

Physical Therapists Watch out for auditors in U-haul trailers at your office! 2008-08-14T15:11:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Physical therapists take note of Medicare audit process

The MEDICARE RECOVERY AUDIT CONTRACTOR (RAC) Program: An Evaluation of the 3-Year Demonstration June 2008 report is available here (downloa...

Physical therapists take note of Medicare audit process 2008-07-17T03:54:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Value Centered Physical Therapy

This post comes from a thread in the Yahoo Groups PT Manager listserve between Rick Gawenda, APTA Adminstration Section President and Larry...

Value Centered Physical Therapy 2008-05-19T09:25:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara

Florida Physical Therapist Busted by Medicare

On August 15, 2007 Gordon Sato, the Regional Inspector General for Audit Services for the Office of the Inspector General sent a letter to M...

Florida Physical Therapist Busted by Medicare 2008-04-28T18:01:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: elvinadara