NOW Available on PTManagerBlog: Managing Physical Rehabilitation in a Managed Care Environment - 2011 Update

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*Managing Physical Rehabilitation in a Managed Care Environment*

*About the 2011 Revision*

This book was originally written in the mid 1990’s – a time of great turmoil

for rehab professionals. It was also a time with much discussion of

alternate delivery systems and re-structuring of the health care world.

Sound familiar?

At the time, there was precious little written about managed care for the

working therapy manager, practice owner or front line clinician. Managed

care was seen as a big scary creature, poorly understood, but definitely

ominous. Sound familiar?

Now it is 2011. What the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 was for the original

edition of this book, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is to this

revision. What

Managed Care Organizations were to the original edition, Accountable Care

Organizations are to this revision. The vocabulary has changed

substantially, the concepts have changed marginally.

As was the case in 1997, rehab professionals need to get up to speed on

these concepts and work to assure the profession a place at the negotiation

table as new forms of health care delivery are envisioned and implemented. To

be left out of those discussions could prove disastrous for our professions.

In an effort to get this revision into the hands of those who need it most,

we’ve made some rather unusual decisions related to this book:

- We are not creating an entire new publication, but rather editing OUT

those parts that just are no longer relevant to today

- We are not creating a hardcopy version – only a PDF for quick and

inexpensive distribution

- We are not selling this version – we are releasing it to the public

domain under a Creative Commons License that allows anyone to distribute it

as long as they don’t sell it and as long as they credit it appropriately.

- We are posting the PDF to PTManagerBlog.com and PTManager list serve –

both entities that did not even exist at all when the original edition was

created.

- We are seeking feedback and discussion as thoroughly as possible in as

timely a manner as possible because we believe the professions involved in

rehab REALLY need to engage this discussion, understand the issues and

background, and find a way to get to the table for discussions in integrated

health systems – currently existing or otherwise.

Thanks for taking a look at this publication. We hope you find it valuable.

As always, we wish you all the best

Kovacek, PT, DPT, MSA

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