Getting paid by Medicare and other government and commercial payers on time, in full, is clearly easier said than done. An alternate lies in a cash based practice that holds out the promise of faster and more lucrative cash flows.
Ensuring the financial health of the physical therapy clinic requires payments posting to be done at a regular cadence, among other things. Playing a pivotal role is the Physical Therapy EMR that connects the dots across these disparate streams of transactions to post payments and keep track of them.
That documentation is not a popular task for anyone including for physical therapists is well known. But if the documentation helps improve outcomes and if EMR automation tools make it faster and easier to perform documentation then therapists are more likely to come on board.
