Good Health and Bulletproof Expert Systems on PT Talker with Jeff Worrell. Elvonda

Jeff Worrell has interviewed a cross section of the world's top physical therapists and rehabilitation experts on his podcasting website...

Good Health and 12 weeks of Physical Therapy Required By New Medicare Guidelines Prior to Joint Replacement in Florida. Elvonda

Medicare has begun to deny hospital charges for total joint replacement surgery IF the surgeon has failed to implement up to 12 weeks of pre...

Good Health and Patient Self Diagnosis: Good or Bad for Physical Therapists?. Elvonda

Drugs used to treat common, high-volume conditions may become available over the internet and dispensed through your local pharmacy rather t...

Good Health and All Florida Physical Therapists Contact Governor Rick Scott Immediately!!. Elvonda

Please contact Governor Rick Scott and request that he sign into law HB 799 by Rep. Tom Goodson and Senator Bill Montford, regarding tempora...

Good Health and Free 1-hour Webinar on Excessive use of the KX modifier. Elvonda

Florida's Medicare Admistrative Contractor (MAC) First Coast Service Options (FCSO) has identified excessive use of the KX modifier on c...

Good Health and Happy Birthday! Paper SOAP Notes Turn 44 Years Old!. Elvonda

On March 21st, 1968 the SOAP note was proposed in an article from the New England Journal of Medicine Medical Records that Guide and Teach ....

Good Health and Home Health Care Submits $432 Million in Improper Medicare Claims. Elvonda

Home health agencies submitted 22 percent of claims in error for unnecessary medical services or for incorrect coding in 2008. That adds u...

Good Health and Will Your Physical Therapy Clinic Close by 2020?. Elvonda

Why One-Third of Hospitals Will Close By 2020 , written by by David Houle and Jonathan Fleece, JD, on the KevinMD website is a thought prov...

Good Health and Physical Therapy Services Billed by Physicians in Florida Have a High Error Rate. Elvonda

Services billed by physician specialties represented 70% of the dollars incorrectly paid for physical therapy services in the November 2011 ...

Good Health and Federal Agency Chief Rebuts Findings That Show EHR May Lead to Increased Diagnostic Imaging. Elvonda

Just one day after the Health Affairs article that showed an association between physicians' Electronic Health Record (EHR) use and inc...

Good Health and The comprehensive error rate testing (CERT) and chiropractic services. Elvonda

Billing maintenance therapy as active treatment First Coast Service Options (FCSO) is estimating an improper payment error rate of 39 perce...

Good Health and Electronic Health Records May INCREASE Uitilization of Diagnostic Imaging. Elvonda

Contrary to the notion that Electronic Health Records (EHR) will lower spending a new study in the March Health Affairs found a 40% to 70% I...

Good Health and Who is to Blame for America's High Healthcare Costs?. Elvonda

Ezra Klein of the Washington Post blames high prices charged by healthcare providers and hospitals for spiraling costs in America's heal...

Good Health and Fear Avoidance Beliefs Are a Learned Behavior. Elvonda

"You shouldn't bend you back when you lift things". "Don't work too hard". "Don't go back to the gym ...

Good Health and South Dakota Physical Therapy CoPay Legislation Becomes Law!. Elvonda

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed House Bill 1183 on February 27th, 2012 protecting physical therapists' patients with legisl...

Good Health and The Fight for Fair CoPays in PT in Motion. Elvonda

We've addressed physical therapist co-payments on this blog before: Florida CoPay in 2012 Kentucky CoPay in 2011 New York CoPay in 2012...