We’re excited to officially announce our partnership with Patient360 for MIPS reporting via their QCDR beginning January 1, 2023. We chose Patient360 because of: We had our first Lunch & Learn on Wednesday, December 21st. During this session we went over With OptimisPT, we make MIPS reporting easy for clinicians Read more…
As rehab providers, one of our biggest challenges is patient adherence to a Home Exercise Program. What if you received extra money for helping the patient to be adherent to their HEP? Did you know that you can? That is what the five codes for remote therapeutic monitoring are designed Read more…
Every year Medicare brings about new rules that impact rehab providers. Below is a summary of those changes. The final CY 2023 PFS conversion factor is $33.06, a decrease of $1.55 to the CY 2022 PFS conversion factor of $34.61. Annual Therapy Threshold: $2,230 for PT and SLP combined, and Read more…
Read about the ICD-10 Updates for 2023 below! On May 26, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the ICD-10-PCS code and guidelines changes for FY 2023. On October 1st of every year the new codes go into effect. For 2023 there are 1,176 new codes, 28 Read more…
What all Rehab Therapists need to know What is RTM? Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) codes were specifically designed to monitor non-physiologic data related to the respiratory or musculoskeletal systems. It also covers monitoring patient adherence and response to therapy, including home exercise program compliance. What makes these codes different, however, Read more…
Diagnosing a concussion is not always an easy task. A physical therapist will generally rely on multiple tests to evaluate the physical deficits, cognitive deficits and emotional symptoms being experienced by the patient.However, in relation to athletes, there is something that could make diagnosing a concussion a bit easier for a physical therapist. This is the administration of pre-participation neurocognitive screenings.
OptimisPT is the best in class rehab specific EMR on the market. Our embedded clinical decision support is just one of the features that sets us apart from the competition. In addition, we include all of our other great features such as scheduling, the patient portal, patient engagement app, embedded HEP, and embedded outcomes measures, just to name a few. Another way we are different from our competitors is how easy it is to implement OptimisPT as your new EMR.
August has been recognized as National Dog Month. In observance of National Dog Month, we wanted to take the opportunity to recognize the benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy, in which dogs play a huge role.
Outcome measures are the validated functional tools used to measure a patient’s participation restrictions and activity limitations. These tools can be used to measure the success of rehab therapy interventions in relation to individual patient management and collectively, as a profession, to help determine which intervention pathways comprise best clinical practices. Learn how OptimisPT can help streamline your Outcome Measures Process.
Most practices are coming to realize that there are definitely more problems and concerns in the continued use of paper charts than benefits. The decreased security and efficiency of documenting on paper makes it difficult to justify continuing with this method. We’ve compiled 4 key elements why an EMR is better than paper charts.