virtual physical therapy
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How Rehab Therapists Can Use RTM to Optimize Patient Care
CMS has shown that they understand the value and efficacy of remote care as a billable service for rehab therapists—let’s not miss this opportunity to take the best care of our patients while getting paid.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Tech Is Changing Physical Therapy Treatment, but We Still Need a Human Touch
By combining in-home and virtual care, we can meet patients literally where they are. More importantly, we can improve outcomes, reduce costs and help patients get back to a normal life while giving therapists the flexibility and opportunity to provide more customized care for their patients.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Your Health Starts With Your Back and Joints
Many patients see MSK as “just part of getting old,” taking Advil and Tylenol until it’s time for a hip replacement, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Physical therapy (PT) has long been shown to be as effective as back or knee surgery for common conditions.
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Hospital for Special Surgery spins out startup for MSK triage, virtual physical therapy
Hospital for Special Surgery spun out a new startup called RightMove Powered by HSS. The company will offer patients virtual triage services and nonsurgical physical therapy. Along with its launch, RightMove announced a $21 million Series A funding round led by Flare Capital and HSS.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Future-proof the health of rehab therapy with hybrid care
Technology exists today that enables patients to simply use a smartphone to do their physical therapy exercises and get recommendations from their provider based on objective and subjective data.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
The role of digital physical therapy in modernizing MSK treatment
Digital physical therapy services, long offered in Europe but are new in the U.S., offer American patients a new way to access PT and have given U.S. health plans a way to reduce costs compared to conventional PT.
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Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM): A gateway to hybrid musculoskeletal care
A new set of 5 CMS codes introduced for 2022, RTM allows physical therapists and other qualified healthcare professionals to bill for monitoring and managing a patient’s MSK care plan remotely