Tag: Clinician
NSM gains Momentum
May 31, 2022HME News Staff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – National Seating & Mobility has launched NSM Momentum Academy, a series of events designed to educate clinical partners, including physical therapists, occupational therapists and other health care providers, about best practices in mobility solutions and complex rehab technology. “At NSM, our goal is to ensure that more people have access to the most advanced mobility and accessibility solutions available,” said Bill Mixon, CEO of NSM. “Through NSM Momentum,...
CMS opens up telehealth to therapists
May 1, 2020Liz Beaulieu, Editor
WASHINGTON - CMS announced last week that it will allow occupational therapists and physical therapists to provide telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic, a big win for complex rehab stakeholders.The agency has waived the limitations on the types of clinical practitioners that can furnish Medicare telehealth services. Previously, only doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certain others could provide these services.“This has been a major request from us, along...
Stakeholders seek to improve 'pathway' to clinicians
April 10, 2020Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - One-third of clinicians recently surveyed by the Clinician Task Force have seen their seating clinics closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, says Cathy Carver.
The closures are a result of a number of issues, including patients not wanting to come into the clinics and of clinicians being moved to other parts of hospitals to respond to the crisis.
“Access to clinicians in the traditional seating clinic setting is challenging in some areas,” said Carver, executive...
Separate benefit: Committee courts clinicians
September 3, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
A steering committee collecting support for its efforts to create a separate benefit for complex rehab is trying to climb the next rung on the ladder.
Don Clayback, chairman of the steering committee and executive director of NCART, plans to meet with officials from the American Physical Therapy Association and the American Occupational Therapy Association in Washington, D.C., next week.
“First, we want them to be aware of the issue,” he said. “Second, we'd like their input and,...