Hi Ron, I am sure my employer does NOT want to hire a PT. They have not even begun to look for one (it has been several months) and are turning away medicare patients other than UE because there isn't a PT. I will ask where they got that information from though, and see if I can get a copy of it. Maybe I can find something in the CORF manual.
At 07:24 AM 1/12/2007, you wrote: >Hello Pat: > >I don't have much knowledge of CORF-specific Medicare regulations, >however, I find it highly unlikely that Medicare regs state that only >a PT can treat back and LE pain patients. Medicare does not >distinguish disciplines by body parts that can or can not be treated. > >I think your employer is trying to hire a PT and are using the the >Medicare regs as an excuse. Will you please ask your employer for a >reference to the Medicare regs that they are citing, and then share >that regulation with us? You may also want to contact the >Reimbursement and Regulatory dept at AOTA: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am SURE >they are very interested in this situation!!!!! > >Thanks, > > >Ron > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Subj: [OTlist] UE vs LE & Medicare (new rant) > >P> I have worked in a pain management clinic for over two years. They >P> recently changed the name to functional restoration clinic, but the program >P> has not changed. We recently became CORF accredited, and all of a sudden I >P> am no longer qualified to do the same thing with medicare patients that I >P> have been doing with worker's comp patients for more than two years. The >P> majority of the patients are back and LE patients, and medicare says that >P> only a PT can treat them. I am the one and only OT at the clinic, and >P> there is no PT. Unless and until they hire a PT, we can't treat those >P> medicare patients that we are now accredited to treat. YET... it would be >P> perfectly acceptable to medicare if a new PT grad with far less experience >P> than me were to come in and treat them!!!! Go figure. > >P> Pat > > > > > >-- >Options? > www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com > >Archive? > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >************************************************************************************** >Enroll in Boston University's post-professional Master of Science for OTs >Online. Gain the skills and credentials to propel your career. >www.otdegree.com/otn >************************************************************************************** -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ************************************************************************************** Enroll in Boston University's post-professional Master of Science for OTs Online. Gain the skills and credentials to propel your career. www.otdegree.com/otn **************************************************************************************
