“Should the Physical Therapy Profession Endorse Medicare Rules and Regulations as the Standard With All Payers?”...the setting is genteel, their credentials impeccable but, rest-assured, this smack-down between Larry Benz, DPT and Steve Levine, DPT promises some fireworks but not much else.The sub-text of this question reads as follows: "Should Medicare allow less-skilled providers (eg: massage See the rest here: The Sound and Fury of the Rothstein Debate at PT 2009

In a somewhat refreshing tone the Government Accounting Office issued a report that showed the US government made $18.6 billion in erroneous payments to Medicaid providers in 2008 but admitted that most of these payments are due to 'procedural glitches' and not fraud.Deborah Taylor, acting director and chief financial officer of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at HHS told a panel of See the original post: Medicare recognizes that PT documentation errors are not fraud