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Focus On Outpatient Therapy In The Home To Reap Big Rewards

Published on Tue Aug 03, 2010

Act now on this growing trend -- before your competition does. If you aren't providing outpatient therapy in patients' homes, you're missing out on a lucrative, wide-open market that pays off in both patient improvement and a booming bottom line. Once patients are no longer homebound, many therapists and their patients assume patients must go to a clinical setting where the patient arrives at a certain time and the therapist stays put. However, getting to and from a therapy appointment often leaves patients frustrated and fatigued, points out PT Lynn Steffes with Steffes & Associates in New Berlin, Wis. Better: Patients who have been used to receiving therapy in their home can continue to do so under the Part B therapy benefit. HHAs can offer Part B therapy as a separate business line. That service can help patients who barely make it to their appointments and keep therapists from nagging [...]
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