Info Straight Access Or Not?
In a report conducted to decide whether straight access to physical therapy services provided past times a licensed physical therapist is damage effective, it was institute that:
- The full paid claims for MD referral episodes to physical therapists was 123% or 2.2 times higher than the paid claims for Direct Access episodes. The full paid claims averaged $2,236 for "physician referral" episodes equally compared to $1,004 for Direct Access episodes. When expressed inwards terms of actual reimbursements, the divergence inwards full paid claims per episode was $1,232.
- Physician referral episodes were 65% longer inwards duration than Direct Access episodes.
- Physician referral episodes generated 67% to a greater extent than physical therapy claims in addition to 60% to a greater extent than component visits than Direct Access episodes.
Mitchell Study: A Comparison of Resource Use in addition to Cost inwards Direct Access Versus Physician Referral Episodes of Physical Therapy (.pdf)
Jean Mitchell, PhD, Georgetown University, and
Gregory de Lissovoy, PhD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University, Dec 1994
Last Updated: 1/13/2011
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