By Gusty Monday 30 April 2012 florida flptpp physical therapists Good Health and Volunteers Needed for Florida Physical Therapists' Committee. Elvonda Florida Physical Therapists in Private Practice (FLPTPP) Call for Volunteers
By Gusty Wednesday 25 April 2012 mac Medicare appeals Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Medicare Program Integrity Manual physical therapists physician orders physician signatures Good Health and Claims Denials Over Missing MD Signatures May Not Stand Up. Elvonda Physical therapists should consult their Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for Therapy Services for their state ( here is Florida's ) a...
By Gusty Thursday 12 April 2012 florida Florida House of Representatives florida physical therapy association Florida Senate Governor Rick Scott physical therapists Physical Therapists Assistants Good Health and Governor Scott signs Physical Therapist/PTA Temporary License Bill into Law. Elvonda Physical Therapists and Physical Therapists Assistants graduating from Florida based PT and PTA programs will be able to obtain temporary li...
By Gusty Tuesday 10 April 2012 $1 880 physical therapy cap Center for Medicare Advocacy Improvement Standard Medicare Medicare audit physical therapists skilled physical therapy Good Health and Skilled Physical Therapy Tied to Medicare Improvement Standard. Elvonda Many physical therapists still believe that Medicare will not pay for therapy that does not lead to a change in functional status. This is...
By Gusty Friday 30 March 2012 documentation Medicare outcomes physical therapists pt talker 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...
By Gusty Monday 19 March 2012 electronic medical records EMR paper medical records physical therapists SOAP note 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 ....
By Gusty Sunday 4 March 2012 Ewan Corwin fear avoidance beliefs MovNat physical therapists physician 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 ...
By Gusty Tuesday 28 February 2012 Gait Velocity Medicare audit physical therapists physical therapy manager physicians primary care The Sixth Vital Sign Good Health and Management and Measurement of Primary Care Physical Therapy. Elvonda I'm sure the BEST primary care physicians in America are consistently measuring this important clinical variable in their older patients...
By Gusty Sunday 19 February 2012 Clayton Christensen clinical decision rules Direct Access legislation disruptive innovation family practice physicians physical therapists Good Health and "Stealing" Patients from Physicians, Part 1 of 3. Elvonda Right now in America, most physical therapists accept referrals from physicians for conditions like simple ankle sprains and lower back inju...
By Gusty Friday 17 February 2012 EMR functional outcome hl7 Medicare audit medicare compliance narrative note patient satisfaction physical therapists Good Health and What's So Bad about Physical Therapy Documentation?. Elvonda 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...
By Gusty Monday 13 February 2012 clinical prediction rules physical therapists screening for pathology treatment based classification Good Health and Pathology Screening by Physical Therapists. Elvonda Here are the clinical prediction rules I routinely use in the clinic. They are included as a separate chapter in my new book Bulletproof Exp...
By Gusty Saturday 28 January 2012 decision support direct access misdiagnoses physical therapists primary care Good Health and New Decision Support Tool Prevents Diagnostic Errors. Elvonda Physical therapists practicing in a direct access setting of performing diagnostic work may find these new tools helpful to maintain a low r...
By Gusty Saturday 21 January 2012 Charles Krauthhamer florida florida physical therapy association fpta physical therapist assistants physical therapists Washington Post Good Health and Why Politics Is Important to Physical Therapists. Elvonda Congratulations to Eric Chaconas, DPT of the Florida Government Affairs Committee and and Scott Harp, PhD Vice President of the Florida Phys...
By Gusty Friday 20 January 2012 aco Congressional Budget Office Fee-for-Service Medicare demonstration projects physical therapists Value-Based purchasing Good Health and Value-based Healthcare Does NOT Reduce Medicare Spending. Elvonda The blog of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced yesterday that 30 years of Medicare demonstration projects have failed to show ...
By Gusty Friday 13 January 2012 Bulletproof Expert Systems clinical decision support Medicare audit Outpatient Setting physical therapist assistants physical therapists Good Health and New Book on Clinical Decision Support in Physical Therapy. Elvonda The new book is finally done! Bulletproof Expert Systems began in 2006 when myself and six other physical therapists and physical therapis...
By Gusty Wednesday 11 January 2012 california California Medical Association Mary Hayashi physical therapists San Francisco Good Health and Mary Hayashi Gets Probation. Elvonda As described on this blog , California Assemblymember Mary Hayashi was arrested for shoplifting on October 28th, 2011. Hayashi received the ...
By Gusty Tuesday 10 January 2012 2012 Florida Legislative session florida Florida Senate physical therapists Good Health and Florida Legislative Session Opens Today!. Elvonda Florida physical therapists get ready to lobby! The start of the 2012 Florida Legislative session is today, January 10th, 2012. Physical the...
By Gusty Monday 9 January 2012 ACP Ethics Manual American College of Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline Critical pathways physical therapists physicians rationing Good Health and Provocative Position by American College of Physicians Calls for "Parsimonious Care". Elvonda The American College of Physicians (ACP) issued first-of-its-kind guidelines specifically calling for "parsimonious care" Monday. ...
By Gusty Friday 6 January 2012 back pain diagnostic imaging physical therapists private practice physical therapists Starbucks/Virginia Mason Good Health and Disruptive Innovation in Physical Therapy. Elvonda Selena Horner noted in her Twitter stream : "Data doesn't create change... stories that evoke emotion create change..." Colla...
By Gusty Sunday 1 January 2012 chronic pain cognitive behavioral therapy exercise outcomes physical therapists telephone Good Health and Cognitive Behavior Therapy Over the Telephone Effective for Chronic Widespread Pain. Elvonda Physical therapists who treat chronic pain patients may be interested in this new randomized controlled trial of 442 patients comparing cogn...