"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

Sunday, February 3, 2013

New Quality Reporting Mandates Affect Physical Therapists and Hospitals

Hospitals are worried that their Electronic Medical Records cannot adequately generate the necessary data to fully comply with burdensome quality reporting mandates in 2013. Read more here.
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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.

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