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Wrangle Your Outside Therapist Problem With Careful Contracts

Published on Fri Jun 16, 2017

But make sure you’re obeying labor laws. Setting expectations with contract therapists from the get-go may help head off therapy-based denials based on poor or missing documentation. Home health agencies have been under intense scrutiny of therapy services (see story, p. 170), and for many agencies, those services feel out of their control because they are furnished by outside therapists. [...]
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