2020 Fall Conference Attendance Survey
As previously announced, the 2020 APTA Colorado Fall Conference will go forward in some form this year. We recognize that predicting how our personal and professional lives will look in one week can be challenging, much less in four months. Despite this uncertainty, we would like to know how this year’s conference can best serve you. Please take a minute or two to complete the following brief survey to better help us plan your conference! We will continue to keep you informed on the decisions made for the conference. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].
CLICK HERE to take the survey! |
Medicaid Colorado Bulletin June 2020: Outpatient Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy Providers
Updates to Visit Documentation Policy
Effective May 1, 2020, the Visit Documentation policy changed from requiring the SOAP format (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) to instead requiring any format which contains all the elements of SOAP, such as APSO (Assessment, Plan, Subjective, Objective) .
This policy is intended to decrease administrative burden by giving providers greater documentation flexibility.
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For Dates of Service Prior to May 1, 2020 |
For Dates of Service On/After May 1,2020 |
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SOAP |
Any format arrangement which has the subjective, objective, assessment and plan elements. |
The Outpatient Speech Therapy Visit/Encounter Note section has been revised to match the Outpatient PT/OT policy for documentation. Details can be found in the Physical and Occupational Therapy (PT/OT) and Speech Therapy billing manuals.
Contact Alex Weichselbaum at [email protected] with questions on the policy. |
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Pain Reframed: An Attorney General Fighting the Opioid Epidemic | Phil Weiser
On this week's episode of #PainReframed, a podcast sponsored by Evidence in Motion (EIM), they hosted Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. He discussed how he is leading our state in holding Purdue Pharma and others accountable for their role in the opioid epidemic.
For more information and to listen to the podcast, CLICK HERE.
About Pain Reframed
The Pain Reframed Podcast is hosted by Tim Flynn, PT, PhD, OCS FAAOMPT, Dr. Jeff Moore, PT, DPT, MTC, Cert-SMT OCS, FAAOMPT, Liz Peppin, PA-C, TPS and Adam Ryan, MD. New episodes air every Thursday. Join the conversation and learn about new episodes by following @eimteam on Twitter.
Tim, Jeff, Liz and Adam are on a mission to uncover how pain is being managed in society and how we, as healthcare professionals, can minimize patient suffering. How is pain described? How do patients experience pain? What can we do to help? Our experts have scratched the surface on pain management and the opioid crisis. We are committed to changing language and practice patterns across disciplines and points of care. Our goal is to reduce the unnecessary suffering that results from the propagation of misinformation, insufficient understanding of the pain experience and the over-medicalization of pain in society. Join Tim, Jeff, and our incredible guests in this sustainable, multidisciplinary, international conversation on pain!
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Self-Mobilization via Telehealth Course
As we continue to navigate through the interesting times of COVID-19 and physical therapists are emerging into telehealth in a big way, many clinicians struggle with not being able to put their hands on their patients. We have heard from many clinicians across the country about their challenges and as manual therapists ourselves have successfully made this transition and have been operating at a full schedule with great patient satisfaction. To help others with utilizing telehealth to encompass the depth and breadth of our skills as manual therapists, the 10 Doctors of Physical Therapy at Rezac PT have put together a 5 hour course covering 9 sections to instruct clinicians in teaching their patients self-mobilization techniques, which we would typically teach patients to complete during in-person sessions, but now adapted to a the telehealth setting.
For more information and to register for this course, CLICK HERE. |
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