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What is Medicare Thinking?
Try to put yourself in Medicare’s shoes for a few minutes. Health care costs are increasing. Outpatient therapy services are poorly understood and are rising faster than other costs. In fact, from...
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Documentation According to the World of Manual Medical Review – Complimentary...
Wednesday, November 7th 1:00 pm EDT / 10:00 am PDT Recent Medicare changes with the therapy cap and manual medical reviews have made it critical for all therapists to understand exactly how to...
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What Is Medicare Thinking – Part 2
Medicare recently released proposed revisions in payment policy rules for 2013. If you would like to review the entire 1300 pages, here is a link: Proposed Rules. The information that is important...
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Medicare Functional Limitation Reporting with Physical Therapy Documentation
As I indicated in some prior posts linked at the bottom of this post, we have the attention of Medicare. Under the Microscope To review, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has made it...
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Medicare G-Codes and Functional Limitation Reporting
Every holiday season is a blur for me because it coincides with the annual end of year “scramble to support new CMS policies” event. But this year really takes the cake. With the dust barely settled...
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How do the Medicare Functional G-codes Work?
In a previous blog post, I summarized the new functional G-codes and what we can expect in 2013. This article will summarize how they work, how you report the measures and what is critical to remember....
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Take Action: Stop the Therapy Cap
The therapy rehabilitation community has been judicious in determining the best time to activate our grassroots efforts regarding the therapy cap…and the time is NOW! Congress has been very clear: it...
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Medicare: Assume Good Intentions
As someone who is responsible for coming up with practical solutions to comply with complex requirements, I have been observing the online debate over the Medicare PQRS, Medicare MPPR, and...
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Announcing Clinicient Mobile Schedule
View Your Schedule from Smart Phones or Tablets Clinicient is pleased to announce the Mobile Schedule, the first in our family of mobile point of care tools for therapists. Designed from the ground up...
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Home Exercise Program Now Available
Create Personalized Home Exercise Programs Directly from Clincient We know that creating, updating and delivering home exercise programs that patients will comply with can be a time-consuming and...
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Demystifying PQRS in Physical Therapy Medicare Requirements
What to Expect Out of a Physical Therapy EMR or Practice Management System Now that we are 2 months into 2013, the big rush to PQRS adoption for Clinicient users is largely behind us. Still, I...
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RACs to Conduct Medicare Manual Medical Reviews in Physical Therapy
Medicare’s latest clarification of Manual Medical Review Well, Medicare has been busy. When CMS decided to keep the Manual Medical Review process for 2013, several questions were left open for...
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Using G-codes for Functional Limitation Reporting Webinar
Functional Limitation Reporting is Just Around the Corner Are you ready? A Complimentary Webinar from Clinicient Friday, April 19th 12:00 pm PDT / 3:00 pm PDT Join us in a complimentary webinar to...
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Demystifying Medicare Functional Limitation G Codes
Assigning Severity Modifiers The final July 1 deadline for reporting Functional Limitation Ratings is fast approaching. I have already expressed my opinion in prior blog articles about the flaws in...
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My 104 Year Old Patient and Functional Limitation Reporting
All of the controversy surrounding Functional Limitation Reporting somehow reminded me of a charming 104 year old patient that I had the privilege of treating years ago. I saw her once a week because...
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Using an EMR to Reduce Medicare Audit Risks
Amanda Somers, APTA board member of the Private Practice Section, tells the story of her practice’s Medicare audit success using Clinicient’s EMR In a recent webinar with Medicare compliance expert...
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Clinicient EMR Simplifies Medicare Functional Limitation Reporting for...
Intelligent and integrated reporting capabilities automate, streamline and enforce new CMS functional limitation reporting requirements. Portland, ORE. – May 29 2013, – Clinicient, Inc., a leader in...
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Free Webinar: Last Chance to Learn Functional Limitation Reporting Basics
A Complimentary Webinar to Learn Medicare Requirements for G-codes and Severity Modifiers with Medicare Compliance Expert Nancy Beckley Tuesday, June 11th 1:00 pm EDT / 10:00 am PDT Effective July...
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Physical Therapy Documentation Should Be Hard
How a Well-Designed Physical Therapy EMR System Makes it Easier When we were setting up Clinicient’s first office in my garage ten years ago I remember complaining that setting up a computer on our...
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Measuring the Value of Your Physical Therapy Referrals – Part 3
Important Metrics for Measuring the Value of Your Referrals? This is part 3 of a 4 part blog series on Measuring the value of referrals. In part 1 of this series, I noted that the average referral is...
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