I 'fired' United Health Care today.United is the lowest paying insurance company in America,  for many physical therapist private practices like mine.We kept United for many years mainly because their members are my friends, neighbors and fellow small business persons in my community.Two years ago United paid me $40 per patient per day.I was able to keep my doors open because I "cross subsidized" Read the original here: United 'fired' by physical therapist

One of the missions of this blog is to help physical therapists make better decisions diagnosing and treating your patients.Physical therapists aim to be doctor-level decision makers but what are the differences in how physicians and physical therapists decide?Are there similarities, too?What are they?This chart shows the process physicians use to decide which Evaluation and Management (E/M) code See the article here: Do you make doctor-level decisions?

Physical therapists wrestle with clinical competence the way teenage girls look at themselves in the mirror and ask..."Am I pretty enough?"Newly graduated physical therapists come armed with knowledge of tests and measures that can answer painful clinical questions and help patients get better, quicker.We have available free resources - outcomes scales like OPTIMAL, DASH and LEFS that only 48% of See original here: Compliance and competence

Outpatient physical therapists don't often deal with life and death issues.We may help patients with...back and neck painwalking difficultystiffnesssports injuriesbalance problems...to name a few.We make decisions, however, that affect patients' quality of life based on their self-reported activity limitations and their performance on standardized tests and measures.That's why I was surprised Excerpt from: 'Fancy Theory' in Physical Therapy