Email Newsletters & Patient Retention for PT Clinics

Email Newsletters & Patient Retention for PT Clinics

What are the two most important things about running a PT Clinic? First, attracting new patients and secondly, retaining them. Retaining your patients is actually even more important, because it costs less to retain a patient than to find a new one! What’s more, recent data has revealed that more than 41% of patients skipped…

When the Roadblock to Patient Care Is…a Physician’s Signature?

When the Roadblock to Patient Care Is…a Physician’s Signature?

When it comes to treating patients, the roadblock to timely patient care often comes down to a delay in obtaining the physician’s signature. Denise Norman, president of Transitional Care Management, provides a great summary of what providers face on a daily basis: “Anybody who’s been in therapy knows that physician signatures and the plan of…

Merit-based Incentive Payment System: 2019 Changes

Merit-based Incentive Payment System: 2019 Changes

Terminology Changes The CMS has created new MIPS terminology that more accurately reflects how clinicians and vendors interact with the QPP, namely MIPS. The new MIPS terms include Collection Type, Submitter Type, and Submission Type. Collection type: a set of quality measures with comparable specifications and data completeness criteria including, as applicable, electronic clinical quality…