Category Archives: Physical Therapy EMR

By Jerry Henderson
| on May 7, 2013

Demystifying Medicare Functional Limitation G Codes

Assigning Severity Modifiers   The final July 1 deadline for reporting Functional Limitation Ratings is fast approaching. I have already expressed my opinion in prior blog articles about the flaws in this requirement, but that does not really matter much, since it is the law of the land. This past week, we released a set of features in Insight that make the process for including Functional Reporting Classifications and Severity Modifiers on your documentation and claims easy

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By Clinicient
| on April 12, 2013

Using G-codes for Functional Limitation Reporting Webinar

Functional Limitation Reporting is Just Around the Corner Are you ready?  A Complimentary Webinar from Clinicient Watch our complimentary webinar to understand how Clinicient takes the burden of these new requirements off of therapists, practice managers and owners. Join us to learn: A review of the new functional limitation reporting requirements What therapists will be responsible for What needs to be reported and when Case studies on how to make initial reports, updates and  discharges,

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By Keddrick Stuart
| on April 1, 2013

RACs to Conduct Medicare Manual Medical Reviews in Physical Therapy

Medicare’s latest clarification of Manual Medical Review Well, Medicare has been busy. When CMS decided to keep the Manual Medical Review process for 2013, several questions were left open for clarification. Namely: • Since 2012 was a mad scramble of reviews and appeals, how will the approval process work for 2013? • Who will conduct the review, given that MAC’s are not staffed to manage this? • Is the patient liable for services above the

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By Keddrick Stuart
| on March 13, 2013

Demystifying PQRS in Physical Therapy Medicare Requirements

What to Expect Out of a Physical Therapy EMR or Practice Management System Now that we are 2 months into 2013, the big rush to PQRS adoption for Clinicient users is largely behind us.  Still, I continue to hear a lot of questions about PQRS in discussion groups and from therapists evaluating EMR and Practice Management systems.  Here are some of my thoughts. What is PQRS? The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is a way

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By Jim Plymale
| on February 15, 2013

How Well Are You Selling Your Therapist’s Time in Your Physical Therapy Practice?

Don’t Be Afraid of the “S” Word:  We’re all in Sales  I was talking with @Jerry_DurhamPT at the APTA Combined Sections meeting in San Diego, CA in January and we were discussing the fact that most physical therapists wouldn’t see themselves as salespeople. Jerry recommended a book to me by Daniel Pink called To Sell is Human, which I just started reading. The basic premise of the book is (pretty evident from the title) that we

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By Clinicient
| on February 5, 2013

Home Exercise Program Now Available

Create Personalized Home Exercise Programs Directly from Clincient We know that creating, updating and delivering home exercise programs that patients will comply with can be a time-consuming and frustrating task. With Clinicient’s new Home Exercise Program (HEP) solution we’ve set out to help make it easier and boost your patient’s compliance. The Clinicient HEP solution integrates  the market’s most comprehensive home exercise program into clinical documentation, enabling therapists to quickly and easily create and deliver

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By Clinicient
| on February 5, 2013

Announcing Clinicient Mobile Schedule

View Your Schedule from Smart Phones or Tablets Clinicient is pleased to announce the Mobile Schedule, the first in our family of mobile point of care tools for therapists. Designed from the ground up for smart phones and tablets, the Mobile Schedule enables busy therapists to view their schedules and appointment details on the go from any mobile device including smartphones, ipads or tablets. This makes it easy for therapists to keep track of their

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By Jerry Henderson
| on January 19, 2013

Medicare: Assume Good Intentions

    As someone who is responsible for coming up with practical solutions to comply with complex requirements, I have been observing the online debate over the Medicare PQRS, Medicare MPPR, and Medicare Functional Limitation Reporting programs with a lot of interest. I have got to say, most of the interactions are not helpful and are usually a litany of indignant complaints along the lines of:   How dare Medicare ask us for additional information

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By Clinicient
| on January 14, 2013

Meeting the Medicare PQRS Requirements in 2013

A Complimentary Webinar from Clinicient Thursday, January 17th     1:00 pm EDT / 10:00 am PDT 2013 brings another year of change with the Medicare PQRS requirements. Please join Jerry Henderson in a webinar and learn: What the new requirements are What the timelines are What you should be doing now How Clinicient manages PQRS (at no additional charge) See a short product demonstration on PQRS This webinar has already taken place, but you

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By Keddrick Stuart
| on December 10, 2012

How do the Medicare Functional G-codes Work?

In a previous blog post, I summarized the new functional G-codes and what we can expect in 2013. This article will summarize how they work, how you report the measures and what is critical to remember. CMS has defined categories of functional limitation that address “activity limitations” and “participation restrictions”. They have assigned specific G-Codes for each category.  The categories for 2013 are: Mobility: Walking & Moving Around Changing and Maintaining Body Position Carrying, Moving

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