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.APTA-South Carolina News
Hello APTA-SC members!
Payers, Payer Policies, Payer Administrative burden, and Payer plan variability continue to evolve and change with lasting impact on our reimbursement. As we explore opportunities where we can make the most impact, The Payment Policy Committee wants to ensure we are focusing our time and effort on the concerns that are most pressing to our members across all Physical Therapy Settings.
Please take a few minutes to take this survey so that we can better understand your perspective and the challenges most affecting your practice setting. This survey will close August 2, 2021.
We would also like to enlarge our committee with emphasis on representation from all practice settings and ask that you include your contact information if you would be willing to help us plan and work toward objectives that will positively impact you, your practice and your colleagues State-wide! The time commitment is 2-3 virtual meetings a year and any actionable tasks we choose to take on as a committee.
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Call for Volunteers
APTA South Carolina is seeking additional volunteers for the following Committees: Membership, Payment & Policy, D.E.I., & Research in the area of Orthopedics. Anyone interested should reach out to Kelly@aptasc.org.
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.HEALTH PROMOTION AND WELLNESS
.INDUSTRY NEWS
5 ways the CDC guidance shows how physical therapy is leading the way in post-COVID-19 care
APTA
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its guidance document "Evaluating and Caring for Patients With Post-COVID Conditions" last month after a year in development, APTA's Cross Academy/Section COVID-19 Core Outcome Measures Task Force was pretty excited: In our guidance document and accompanying algorithm released in October 2020, we had the same or similar recommendations in many instances.
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Dietary supplements: What PTs need to know
Nutritional PT
Three out of four Americans takes some form of dietary supplement every day. From multivitamins to weight loss supplements, the list of dietary supplements is long and the associated costs can be substantial. Physical therapists (PTs) work with a wide range of patient types, many of whom are actively taking supplements for health, to slow aging, or in hopes to reverse a disease state. Obviously these supplements must have some positive impact on our health, right? Doctors of physical therapy (DPTs) are becoming more holistically trained to understand the role of nutrition and dietary supplements: despite this, the answer to above question is convoluted and may even surprise you.
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Payment and regulatory update
APTA
Topics discussed: 2022 Home Health and Fee Schedule Rules, Commercial Payer Update, Telehealth, NCCI edits, Utilization Management, Service Reviews, Payer Resources.
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5 ways to improve patient-provider communication in your practice
WebPT
Research conducted by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation, and Stanford Research Center found that 85% of long-term job success depends on so-called soft skills, such as communication, emotional intelligence, collaboration, and adaptability. Although this concept took awhile to catch on (this study was done way back in 1918, after all), the good news is that today, “soft skills” are increasingly recognized as “power skills” among the general workforce—and within the healthcare community especially.
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The impact of the degree of kinesiophobia on recovery in patients with achilles tendinopathy
Physical Therapy
Kinesiophobia has been proposed to influence recovery in patients with Achilles tendinopathy. However, whether there are differences in outcomes in patients with different levels of kinesiophobia is unknown. The purpose of this study was to compare the characteristics of patients at baseline and recovery over time in patients with Achilles tendinopathy and various levels of kinesiophobia.
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How do patients actually find physical therapists online?
Practice Promotions
Do you understand how people find you online? If you think they found you through your Instagram page…you’re probably wrong.
There are a hundred ways someone could find you online, but some paths to your site are statistically more likely than others. We are ready to bet that your last patient did not find you via a dial-up Internet device.
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3 tips for a thriving, healthy therapy practice today
Net Health
If clinicians around the country were asked to describe their therapy practice over the past 15 months, it’s unlikely that any would use the terms “healthy” or “thriving.” Rehab therapists and clinic owners have faced insurmountable challenges — and chances are, your practice and its revenue have felt the weight. With the world beginning to return to normal, it’s time for your practice to take first priority again.
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5 reasons to work in outpatient physical therapy
Results Physiotherapy
One of the biggest decisions physical therapists need to make is choosing where they'd like to make a difference in their patient's lives. Physical therapists, like many other healthcare professions, have the ability to choose between several different care environments including outpatient clinics, hospitals, home healthcare services, self-employment, and residential care facilities. Take a look at some of the key reasons you should work in outpatient physical therapy at Results Physiotherapy!
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No time to lift? Designing time-efficient training programs for strength and hypertrophy
Sports Medicine
Lack of time is among the more commonly reported barriers for abstention from exercise programs. The aim of this review was to determine how strength training can be most effectively carried out in a time-efficient manner by critically evaluating research on acute training variables, advanced training techniques, and the need for warm-up and stretching.
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