4 Strategies to Combat Shrinking Reimbursement in Physical Therapy
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it may be this: the profit margin in outpatient physical therapy is slim. And, with the average rate of reimbursement either staying stagnant or decreasing, this trend doesn’t look like it’s…
8 Thought-Provoking Facts About Physical Therapy You Can’t Ignore
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The Physical Therapy Patient Management Process
When speaking to therapy clinic owners, we always ask them the same questions: what are the top 3 metrics you track when assessing the health of your business? The answer is usually the same – total visits, missed visit percentage…
Evidence Based Patient Care in Physical Therapy
Inertia is the resistance of a physical object to any change in its motion; the tendency of matter to keep moving in a straight line at a constant linear velocity, or to keep still. In other words, inertia is maintaining the…
The Only Physical Therapy Outcome that Matters
Last night I attended The Quantified Patient, which is an event (that represents a larger movement in the world of health tech) that’s focused on redefining healthcare through the use of self-tracking systems, behavior change psychology, and human analytics. In…
Why Every Physical Therapist Should Be on Social Media
I came across an interesting infographic from Master-of-Health-Administration.com entitled Healthcare and Social Media that included some eye-popping statistics. Namely, social media users are more likely to trust a post by a doctor than by any other group. As a Physical Therapist, after…
I Don’t Want Value-Based Reimbursement in Physical Therapy Yet: One PT’s Perspective
In an ideal world, professionals would be paid based on the measurable value of the services they provide. The issue, as we all know, is that healthcare reimbursement is far from an ideal world. Over the last decade, the phrase…
Improving Home Exercise Program Adherence in Physical Therapy
Only thirty-five percent of patients fully adhere to their course of care in Physical Therapy. I’ll let that sink in. Most patients aren’t doing their exercises at home. Research cites lack of motivation, patient perception of whether or not they…
What Patients Think Of Physical Therapy
Over the last few months, I’ve had the unique opportunity to talk with patients about their perceptions of physical therapy. The opportunity is unique because I have no connection to the office they received their care in, making it much…
Patient Engagement: Too Important to Become a Buzz-Phrase
If you haven’t heard, patient engagement is all the rage- one look at Google Trends confirms that the term is being thrown around an awful lot over the last few years. Late last year, a well-known health IT consultant dubbed…
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