Guest guest Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hi group, I had an issue come up today that I need some advice on. I had a patient call me stating they were working with a DME company on getting a wheelchair. The DME company requested that a PT perform a wheelchair evaluation. I do these on a regular basis, and the patient called me to request that I get a prescription from the MD to perform this. I send the request to the physician. They called me today and stated they will not refer out their own hospital system. I called the patient and asked him to call the doctor and discuss free choice of providers and that he really wanted me to do the eval. He called the physician, but the physician is adamant that she will not refer outside her own hospital system for PT, and that she will be glad to give him a prescription for PT within the system. The patient is wanting to pursue reporting this illegal behavior. How does he go about doing this. Anything I should be doing about this. I have always known about physicians doing this, just never heard of anybody doing this when the patient is requesting a specific PT and never heard a doctors office just coming out and blatantly stating that they are doing this. Thank you for your advice. Odilia Egbers, PT Rehab Enterprises Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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