By Gusty Tuesday, 22 October 2013 American Physical Therapy Association electronic medical record EMR outcome physical therapy technology WebPT Good Health and Can EMRs Improve the Physical Therapy Experience?. Elvonda "With great power comes great responsibility", quoted Heidi Jannenga, PT, MPT, ATC/L at the WebPT Evolve meeting in Orlando, Flo...
By Gusty Wednesday, 21 August 2013 American Physical Therapy Association Medicare Opt Out private practice physical therapists Private Practice Section therapy cap Vern Buchanan Good Health and Private Practice Physical Therapists in Washington DC. Elvonda The recent trip to Washington DC on the 23rd of July 2013 with the Private Practice Section (PPS Fly In) of the American Physical Therapy As...
By Gusty Tuesday, 13 August 2013 American Physical Therapy Association APTA medicare reimbursement physical therapy Sustainable Growth Rate therapy cap Good Health and What has the American Physical Therapy Association done for you lately?. Elvonda Patient stories... Physical therapists hear these stories every day but the APTA is helping to put patient stories where they will do some ...
By Gusty Tuesday, 23 July 2013 #PPSFlyIn American Physical Therapy Association Medicare cuts Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act ObamaCare physical therapy sgr Good Health and Sustainable Growth Rate Replacement On Sale at the #PPSFlyIn !. Elvonda Like treasure-seekers at a sidewalk scavenger sale physical therapists can get a little excited about the potential for meaningful Medicare ...
By Gusty Sunday, 2 June 2013 American Physical Therapy Association APTA direct access Medicare physical therapist Good Health and Should Physical Therapists Abandon Direct Access? Vote 'No' on #APTArc20. Elvonda A recent proposed motion in front of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) House of Delegates threatens to overturn 40 years of p...
By Gusty Saturday, 11 May 2013 American Physical Therapy Association medical necessity Medicare physical therapists RAC Recovery Audit Contractor Good Health and RAC Activity Increasing, But Will They Hit Physical Therapists?. Elvonda New data seems to show the Recovery Audit Contractor program is increasing its denial of claims by providers. Physical therapist managers w...
By Gusty Sunday, 17 February 2013 American Physical Therapy Association APTA Medicare beneficiaries Medicare�s cost savings opt-out physical therapist in private practice Private Practice Section Good Health and Medicare Opt-Out for Physical Therapists. Elvonda Representative Vern Buchanan Washington D.C. Office 2104 Rayburn HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-5015 Fax: (202) 226-0828 Febr...
By Gusty Tuesday, 11 September 2012 affordable care act American Physical Therapy Association APTA direct access physical therapists Uwe Reinhardt Good Health and Is there a physician shortage in America?. Elvonda Uwe Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton and former keynote speaker at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Annual C...
By Gusty Friday, 10 August 2012 American Medical Association American Physical Therapy Association physical therapy physicians Good Health and Why Physical Therapists Should Make Diagnoses. Elvonda "Physical therapy is not a subspecialty of the medical profession and physical therapists are not medical doctors; we are a separate pr...
By Gusty Thursday, 21 June 2012 AMA RUC American Medical Association American Physical Therapy Association APTA cms Current Procedure Terminology Medical Home Medicare Relative Value Update Committee Severity-Intensity Model Good Health and Is the Severity-Intensity Model a Roadmap for Fraud and Abuse?. Elvonda First, I'd like to thank all the hard-working staff and volunteers at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) for the effort th...
By Gusty Saturday, 21 April 2012 American Physical Therapy Association APTA Clinical Practice Guidelines low back pain Orthopaedic Section Good Health and Low Back Pain guidelines published by Orthopaedic Section of APTA. Elvonda Just published are the Low Back Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and...
By Gusty Saturday, 3 March 2012 American Physical Therapy Association APTA copayment physical therapist 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...
By Gusty Friday, 2 March 2012 American Physical Therapy Association APTA copay copay legislation florida 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...
By Gusty Wednesday, 15 February 2012 American Physical Therapy Association APTA EHR Electronic Health Records Good Health and New Electronic Health Records Toolkit available from the APTA. Elvonda An Electronic Health Records (EHR) adoption toolkit is now available at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) website. Member lo...
By Gusty Wednesday, 8 February 2012 American Physical Therapy Association APTA EvidenceinMotion.com outpatient physical therapy physical therpists private practice PTManager.com Good Health and Why Outpatient Physical Therapy Will Survive and Thrive. Elvonda This bears repeating... The following is a response to a comment thread on Peter Kovacek's PTManager.com . You need a username and pass...