Category Archives: Physical Therapy EMR

By Keddrick Stuart
| on April 11, 2012

ICD-10 Likely Delayed with Good News Buried in the Announcement

The long expected news of a delay to the implementation date for ICD-10 became a little more official this week.  HHS has formally announced a proposed rule change that would effectively slip the effective date from Oct. 1, 2013 to Oct 1, 2014. ICD-10 promises to improve electronic communication by adding specificity to both diagnosis codes and CPT codes. The codes are fundamentally different because they carry within the code additional information that characterizes anatomic

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By Clinicient
| on March 16, 2012

Helping to Heal People is Really What Physical Therapy Business is About

We just had a really great call from an old patient of our Chief Physical Therapist, Jerry Henderson.  She had a horribly twisted back that doctors thought was Scoliosis. Jerry didn’t agree and helped her with some treatments and exercises that fixed her back for good. She hasn’t had pain for 6 years. She tracked Jerry down to get a recommendation. Very cool story about Jerry and how he was helping people, but also a

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By Jerry Henderson
| on March 6, 2012

Measuring No Shows in Physical Therapy Practice Management

I did a recent series of blogs on improving your no show rates based on interviews with Paul Christensen, DPT, OCS, ATC, FAAOMPT, who is on the Clinical Advisory Group for Clinicient.  Working on these blog articles reminded me of an important problem: there is not an accepted standard for counting no shows and cancellations.  To get meaningful metrics on failed appointments across different organizations, everyone must use the same standards and policies and have a common reporting infrastructure. 

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By Jerry Henderson
| on February 28, 2012

Physical Therapy Practice Management: Reducing Patient No Shows in Physical Therapy, Part 4 of 4

This is the final blog in a 4 part series of articles based on an interview with Paul Christensen, DPT, OCS, ATC, FAAOMPT.  Paul is the founder of OPTM Physical Therapy Group with office in San Jose and Los Gatos California and is on the Clinical Advisory Group for Clinicient. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Paul and ask him how he manages the no show rate at his clinics.  In prior

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