I don't know if we know exactly how this new law will impact private practice physical therapists but this video gives a short, entertaining look at the timeline in a way that breaks down the objections on both sides of the divide...
Thank you to the good people at the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.
"Physical therapy is not a subspecialty of the medical profession and physical therapists are not medical doctors; we are a separate profession that provides a unique service that physicians are unable and untrained to provide."
Letter to the AMA from the APTA, Dec 2009
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Tim Richardson, PT owns a private practice at Medical Arts Rehabilitation, Inc in Palmetto, Florida. The clinic website is at MedicalArtsRehab.com.
Bulletproof Expert Systems: Clinical Decision Support for Physical Therapists in the Outpatient Setting is a manager's workbook with stories, checklists, charts, graphs, tables, and templates describing how you can use paper-based or computerized tools to improve your clinic's Medicare compliance, process adherence and patient outcomes.
Tim has implemented a computerized Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system in his clinic since 2006 that serves as a Reminder, Alerting, Prompting and Predicting CDS using evidence-based tests and measures.
Tim can be reached at
TimRichPT@BulletproofPT.com .
"Make Decisions like Doctors"
Copyright 2007-2010 by Tim Richardson, PT.
No reproduction without authorization.
Bulletproof Expert Systems: Clinical Decision Support for Physical Therapists in the Outpatient Setting is a manager's workbook with stories, checklists, charts, graphs, tables, and templates describing how you can use paper-based or computerized tools to improve your clinic's Medicare compliance, process adherence and patient outcomes.
Tim has implemented a computerized Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system in his clinic since 2006 that serves as a Reminder, Alerting, Prompting and Predicting CDS using evidence-based tests and measures.
Tim can be reached at
TimRichPT@BulletproofPT.com .
"Make Decisions like Doctors"
Copyright 2007-2010 by Tim Richardson, PT.
No reproduction without authorization.