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11/30/15
Contract Therapy Services
Outsourcing rehabilitation therapy is a sensitive subject for hospitals. Many facilities still have an institutional memory of the early 1990s (before the Balanced Budget Act) when it was almost impossible…
02/17/14
Healthcare Reform – A Therapy Perspective
It is a widely held tenant of planning that as organizations we generally overestimate the amount of change that will occur within the next four years, and we underestimate the…
07/19/13
Darrell’s Rural Rant
Our National Account Executive was on the road today returning from a Rural Hospital conference. We didn’t have a booth at this particular show so Todd spent the majority of…
12/03/12
The Election Is Over. What’s Next For Therapy?
With the election past us, budgets being completed and the impending “fresh start” of a new year, it seems like a good time to take stock and figure out “where…
09/13/12
Exploring Partnerships: Majority or Minority Ownership?
The following article, written by CFO Darrell Metcalf, first appeared in Impact Magazine. It is reposted here with permission by the Private Practice Section, APTA. Every day the financial news…
08/26/11
What Keeps a CFO Awake At Night?
After you get past – who cares?, it is sometimes insightful to understand what worries a CFO. Believe it or not, we CFOs are not as optimistic, upbeat and dynamic…
06/15/11
ACOs – We Already Have Them – It’s Called Your Local Critical Access Hospital
It’s interesting to see the trade periodicals fill with articles about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), how to structure them, how to ensure they don’t run afoul of anti-trust laws, how…
05/02/11
Home Health – More Than Flexible Scheduling
Ah, the Home Health conundrum – do I give up valuable time and productivity to drive to a less than ideal therapy work environment to see a patient I’m not…
03/28/11
Do Clinical Doctorates Make Sense In Light of Lower Reimbursements?
Healthcare cost, Healthcare cost, Healthcare cost… the rhetoric seems almost endless regarding what benefits should be cut, what payments are unnecessary and how much fraud is occurring. I have been…