Upcoming Seminars:

Documentation and Payment Issues in Outpatient Physical Therapy: Assuring Compliance & Avoiding Fraud and Abuse
October 16-17, 2008 — Great Wolf Lodge, Mason, Ohio
Payment & Policy Challenges in Outpatient Physical Therapy: Tools for Success in 2008 & Beyond!
October 24-25, 2008 — Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
Audio Conference: The Advanced Beneficiary Notice: How to Legally Collect Cash from a Medicare Patient
September 9, 2008 — Partnership with APTA Chapters
Audio Conference: The OIG Self Disclosure Protocol: Should You Notify the Government if you suspect a Problem, and How to Minimize Your Risk of an Audit
October 7, 2008 — Partnership with APTA Chapters
Audio Conference (2 Part): Part 1: Establishing a Fee Schedule for your Facility: Using the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) as a Guide
November 11, 2008 — Partnership with APTA Chapters
Audio Conference (2 Part): Part 2: Determining Your Cost per Visit: Understanding Basic Financial Statements and Answering the Question: Should I Sign This Payer Contract?
November 18, 2008 — Partnership with APTA Chapters
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Website Redesign and Upgrade Scheduled for September 2008!

To enable the Rehabilitation Consulting & Resource Institute (RCRI) to continue its focus on ensuring that physical therapy providers have the most current and comprehensive resources available to them in the areas of coding, documentation, Medicare compliance, and government/agency reports, audits, and investigations, as well as related practice management and reimbursement issues, we will be redesigning and converting our website to a subscription service that will go live this September. Our new website address will be:

www.myrehabconsultants.com

Those clients and individuals who have visited our site tell us that what they most value is the availability of so many resources all in one place, representing a broad spectrum of topics related to rehab practice. They have provided feedback that specifically acknowledges the ability to easily find information and references related to coding, billing, and documentation, as well as government/public agency reports, up-to-date web links, and timely posts of breaking news items. Although some areas of the website will continue to be available to anyone visiting the site, the new website design will offer many new features and resources available only to subscribers, including:

  • Resource information on a broad range of areas, which can be sorted by category and date
  • Tips on coding, billing, and documentation from national experts
  • Opportunities to ask questions of experts in the field and receive timely responses
  • Blast emails containing related breaking news as it occurs
  • A monthly electronic newsletter with valuable and current information
  • Discounts on RCRI sponsored educational seminars
  • Discounts on online education modules
  • And much more!

The nominal annual subscription fee will allow us to focus the resources necessary to keep the site dynamic and current, and enable RCRI clients and website subscribers to find many new and exciting features available to them. Through the use of additional technology that will be incorporated into the new site, RCRI will be able to "push" updated breaking news and key information directly to our clients and subscribers in a timely fashion. As a result, our clients and website subscribers can eliminate any worries about not being aware of changes in national payment policy or federal regulations when they occur!

We will continue to provide more news and information about our new website as we approach its launch, which is anticipated to be early fall of 2008. We encourage you to return to this page frequently to follow our progress in this area. If you are interested in subscribing to the new website or wish to be added to the RCRI database so that you will be notified when the website is converted to its new design, just send an email to us at:

subscriptions@myrehabconsultants.com

Once we receive your information, we will add you to the RCRI database which will allow us to forward you information about subscription rates and services via email as these details are finalized. You will not automatically be subscribed to the site, but will be notified of progress in this area so that you can view the new site when launched and make your subscription decisions at that time.

We wish to sincerely thank our clients and the rehabilitation community for their past support and ongoing encouragement as our company takes the next steps toward remaining the premiere rehabilitation consulting group!

Helene M. Fearon, PT and Stephen M. Levine, PT, DPT, MSHA
Principals, Rehabilitation Consulting & Resource Institute