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As 2015 comes to a close, SCAPTA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the SCAPTA News a look at the 10 most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 7.
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SCAPTA
From Jan. 8: The next round in the decade-long battle in South Carolina over the issue of physician-owned physical therapy services (POPTS) is scheduled to occur on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, when the South Carolina State Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the Joseph case, in which the appellants are challenging the current state law prohibiting physician referral for profit in physical therapy.
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PT in Motion
From April 30: A patient injures herself during a physical therapy session. What happens next?
The patient faces a longer recovery time, of course. And depending on the physical therapist's approach to risk management, the PT could be facing a potentially costly and career-damaging malpractice claim that might have been avoided. The latest case study now available from Healthcare Providers Service Organization recounts the story of a self-employed contract PT working at a rehabilitation facility.
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Health News Digest
From Oct. 29: It's not just an issue for old ladies-or pregnant ladies, either. Urinary incontinence, or UI, which is the involuntary loss of urine, affects roughly one in four U.S. women. That includes new and expectant mothers as well as young female athletes, all of whom find themselves with inadequate bladder control.
Stress urinary incontinence, or SUI, is the most common form of UI in women under 60, accounting for more than half the estimated 18 million cases.
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PT in Motion
From May 7: For many physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, the time will come for them to take a break from active practice. Sometimes it's relatively brief — time off to care for a new baby, for example — and sometimes it's longer-term. And chances are that sooner or later, most of these PTs and PTAs will want to return to the profession they love. Here are 5 quick tips on preparing for — and returning from — a break in practice.
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WebPT
From Aug. 20: ICD-10 has raised a lot of questions, and with good reason: it differs greatly from its predecessor, ICD-9, after all. One critical question is, "How will ICD-10 affect the way in which I diagnose?" Currently, many physical therapists receive diagnosis codes from referring physicians, and they just carry those over into their notes. But ICD-10 isn't solely about coding patient diagnoses correctly; it's also about coding the correct patient diagnoses. As Lori Purcell, RHIA, CCS, explains in this article, "Service drives payment, but if the diagnosis doesn't match [the services], you won't be paid."
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The Inquirer
From Oct. 1: David Becker writes: "Typically, we exercise to slim down, feel better, and ease our guilt about eating an extra cookie. As a cardiologist, I always remind my patients that including exercise in their lives can also lower blood pressure and decrease the risk of having a heart attack. But those aren't the only potentially lifesaving effects from exercise.
Here are 10 more reason to exercise — effects that go far beyond benefits for the heart — from studies published in the last year."
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Josh Manoharan Blog
From Sept. 17: Long ago, before complexities of healthcare became the templates, movement was the standard medicine. History narrates that early physicians used their hands, heat, and their knowledge of human movement to cure physical dysfunctions. Through the years, the health profession evolved and diversified into highly-specialized components and subcomponents. Nevertheless, principles of these ancient arts of healing had to be passed on for people of today to benefit from. Physical therapists, physiotherapists or PTs are some of the lucky heirs. Arts were thoroughly transformed into science highly influenced by western medicine. Therefore, it is through PTs that people can taste the standard medicine our ancestors used to benefit from, adjusted to suit the modern times.
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HIT Consultant
From June 4: With ICD-10 compliance date less than five months away, there is still an abundance of common misconceptions associated to this transition. For providers, these ICD-10 misconceptions can prove extremely costly and damaging to the implementation.
Pam Klugman, chief product officer of Clear Vision Information Systems specifically warns providers to avoid these five common myths about ICD-10.
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PT in Motion
From Aug. 20: Researchers analyzing data from "a large academic hospital with a chronic stroke center" have found that physical therapist recommendations for patients transitioning to subacute care facilities are being omitted from discharge orders at rates of 54-100 percent, depending on the type of PT recommendation. Authors contend that not only do the omissions create the potential for gaps in care, but that related Medicare readmission data suggest that the omissions may be associated with increased 30-day hospital readmission rates.
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WebPT
From May 14: Collecting copays and deductibles is an important piece of the effort to accurately value the services we provide. And yet, we still hear about practices that routinely waive their patients' deductibles and copays. This article discusses another reason not to routinely waive deductibles and copays.
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