While you are fully focused on managing your Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) documentation for your 2019 reporting, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated a number of important resource documents within the full resource library at the Quality Payment Program website. One of these resources is the MIPS Promoting Interoperability Prevention of…
Where do you spend most of your time? If you’re not at home, there’s a high chance you’re at work for the majority of the day, leaving only a small window of time for fun or important non-work activities. One of those relevant activities could be attending a much-needed doctor’s appointment that you’ve been putting…
You’ve got a great website. That’s the first step in building your online presence. But have you set up Google My Business yet? If not, locals looking for your business online may not be able to find you and your beautiful website. It’s a core element of local SEO and super important for your PT…
Setting up a proper Facebook page is critical in properly representing your clinic on the platform and throughout the internet. Below are 7 easy steps to follow to achieve an optimized Facebook page for your PT clinic. 1) Profile Image The profile photo is the first thing that most consumers see. This image is a…
Proper workflows are at the heart of a successful wound care business. Whether you are in the outpatient wound care setting or working as a traveling physician, designing clinical and operational workflows requires close review and customization of current clinical and documentation practices for an efficient outcome. Current practices include the operational processes for registration,…
One of the best — and least expensive — ways of telling your community about a special event at your PT practice is by getting an article in your local community newspaper through a press release. Unfortunately, writing a press release isn’t something that’s taught when you’re studying physical therapy. We’ve put together some simple…
Performing a comprehensive patient assessment is an essential first step toward healing a chronic skin condition or wound. After the clinician has assessed the patient, identified any underlying conditions affecting healing, performed a complete assessment of the patient’s nutrition status, performed the proper tests to provide an accurate diagnosis of the underlying problem, assessed the…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (which is okay if that’s your thing), you may not know that the 19th annual Clinical Outcomes Summit (COS) is right around the corner. Well, October 23rd isn’t exactly around the corner, but hey, we’re already almost HALFWAY through 2019, so it isn’t as far away as it seems….
Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) is one of the initiatives being used to help address the growing issues with prescription drug abuse in the U.S. The definition of EPCS is in the name—it allows practitioners to write and transmit prescriptions for controlled substances electronically and permits pharmacies to receive and dispense the orders. Traditionally,…
The Medicare hospice benefit is, by definition, intended for terminally ill patients with a prognosis of six months or less. But in many cases, it can be difficult to estimate life expectancy, particularly for prolonged illnesses with a less predictable disease trajectory such as dementia (which is one of the fastest-growing primary diagnosis categories for…
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