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SCAPTA
Last month, we notified you that SC Medicaid is beginning to do re-validations of Medicaid participating providers. They are now on the 3rd group. This group begins on August 11, 2015 and ends Sept 9, 2015. This group includes the following:
Individual physical therapy providers who participate in Medicaid located in Berkeley, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, Sumter and Williamsburg counties are in Group 3 and require a site visit. As well as the following: Georgia within Medicaid Service Area, Georgia outside Medicaid Service Area, North Carolina within Medicaid Service Area, North Carolina outside Medicaid Service Area and out of state providers.
Medicaid will be posting the list of group 3 providers within the next few days on the revalidation website:
https://msp.scdhhs.gov/revalidation/site-page/resources
Please note that these will include a site visit. If you are a participating Medicaid provider in these counties, please make sure that you are looking for your re-validation request, and make sure that you complete by the deadline. DO NOT re-validate until you receive your request. If you have never had a site visit, you will want to take a look at those requirements before the Medicaid team shows up in your clinics.
If you have questions, please call the Medicaid Provider Service Center at 888-289-0709, Option 4.
SCAPTA
Held by the South Carolina chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association (SCAPTA) to celebrate October National Physical Therapy Month and benefitting SCAPTA and partial proceeds towards Charleston's Achieving Wheelchair Equality (AWE).
Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015
9:00 a.m.
James Island County Park in Charleston, S.C.
Achieving Wheelchair Equality is a Charleston, S.C., organization that serves the wheelchair using community and mobility impaired population in order to become involved, productive members. They educate and increase awareness to others about accessible resources in our environment for those with mobility impairments whether it be with daily activities with peer support and direct services including building ramps or in participation in recreational activities such as the Lowcountry Wheelchair Sports including and not limited to basketball, tennis, racing with hand cycling, swimming, triathletes, and more!
Watch this page for more information regarding sponsorship opportunities and registration.
SCAPTA
 Section on Pediatrics Annual Conference (SoPAC) will be held Nov. 6–8, 2015, at the Wyndham Grand Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four pre-conference courses will be held November 4-5. The 2015 SoPAC theme is: "Convergence of Knowledge and Research into Practice." SoPAC includes 18 hours of all-pediatric programming with concurrent sessions from all pediatric practice areas. The SoPAC Schedule-At-A-Glance and registration information can be accessed at www.sopac.us.
Today in PT
One out of every 5 U.S. adults has a disability, according to a new study, and the most common functional disability was a mobility limitation — defined as serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs — reported by 1 in 8 adults. This was followed by disability in cognition, independent living, vision and self-care, according to the findings, which were published recently by the CDC.
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Today in PT
Athletes who already have had lower extremity surgeries before going on to play in college might be at a higher risk for another surgery independent of gender and sport, new research suggests. Investigators presented the findings recently at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. "This is the first study to look at the relationship between precollegiate surgery and future injury requiring surgery in collegiate athletes," lead author Dean Wang, MD, from UCLA, said in a news release. "Our results suggest that athletes injured before college might be left with a functional deficit that puts them at risk for future injury."
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PT in Motion
Physical therapists treat all kinds of people with a wide range of backgrounds. But what happens when something in a patient's past stops the PT in her or his tracks, and introduces doubts about whether treatment can continue?
That's the focus of this month's "Ethics in Practice" column in the August PT in Motion, APTA's member magazine. The ripple effects of the scenario don't stop with the PT and her patient. The "Ethics in Practice" article also touches on issues that must be addressed by the PT's supervisor.
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WebPT
Brooke Andrus writes: "In the words of American rock legend Tom Petty, 'Good love is hard to find.' While I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Petty’s wisdom, I think some rehab therapy practice owners might say good employees are even harder to find. And that certainly applies in the billing department. After all, your clinic’s billing operation is crucial to its financial well-being. One bad hire could mean the difference between your clinic achieving private practice rockstardom and hitting rock bottom. But how do you separate the billers with true staying power from the one-hit-wonders?"
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PT in Motion
Long story short: baby, you were born this way.
Researchers have known for some time that vertebrae diameters in adult women are smaller than in men, but now a new study says that those differences occur in the fetal stage and are present at birth — a variation believed to be an evolutionary adaptation that allows females the increased flexibility needed to maintain mobility during pregnancy. The downside to the increased flexibility gained through smaller CSA is a higher risk of vertebral fractures later in life.
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Physical Therapy Products
A study recently published in the journal Stroke suggests that there may be a wide geographical variation in the use of the stroke treatment tPA.
According to a release from the University of Michigan Health System, researchers looked at how tPA was used — or not — in Medicare participants who experienced strokes in each of the nation's 3,436 hospital markets between 2007 and 2010.
Per their findings, only 4.2 percent of the 844,000 stroke victims in the United States during the study period received tPA or another urgent stroke treatment.
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WebPT
Seven dwarves; seven world wonders; 7-Up. These are all totally non-threatening — some might even say smile-inducing — associations with the number seven. ICD-10's seventh character, on the other hand, has caused a lot of frowns — or, at the very least, furrowed brows — among those in the healthcare community. And that's especially true for physical therapists. Here is a compiled a list of seven seventh-character must-knows.
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Physical Therapy
A study recently published in the Journal of Neurotrauma suggests the possibility of blood biomarkers as indicators of brain damage after a traumatic brain injury.
According to a news release from Mary Ann Liebert Inc/Genetic Engineering News, the study suggests that the levels of two proteins present in blood and cerebrospinal fluid increased significantly at different time points following, reportedly confirming their potential value as biomarkers of trauma-related brain damage.
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