Aquatic Therapy Denial... Would you pay?
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 Is aquatic therapy more appropriate than land?
A 54-year-old female with a history of fibromyalgia requests reimbursement for her aquatic therapy. Her plan denied these requests based upon a determination that
the therapy was not medically necessary.
Was her aquatic therapy denial overturned?
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Overheard on Social Network...
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 Reader Question: I operate my Aquatic Therapy [practice] out of our local YMCA pool....They renegotiated my contract to charge me directly a flat fee and
they would no longer be collecting from the patients directly. Can I
break down that new fee and charge my patients the balance that they
would have paid to the Y or do I need to consider this a "cost of doing
business" expense? Share your aquatic therapy wisdom ... Join (for free) & help us hit 500 aquatic clinicians by 2010... |
Download of the Week: Borg Scale for Aquatic Exercise in Cardiac Population?
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 Struggling to find actual research PDFs online? Enjoy our new feature: Download of the Week.
Today's Article: The
Borg scale as an important tool of self-monitoring and self-regulation
of exercise prescription in heart failure patients during hydrotherapy (Carvalho; 2009)
DOWNLOAD PDF now...
Excerpt: Exercise guided by the Borg scale maintains the patient's HR between the anaerobic threshold and respiratory compensation point (ie, in the exercise training zone).....
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