HELPFUL LINKS
Foundations and Research Institutes
• Foundation for Physical Therapy
• The American Occupational Therapy Foundation
Associations/ Organizations
• National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)
• Risk & Insurance Management Society (RIMS)
• Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI)
• American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
• American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
• American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)
• Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN)
• International Association of Disability Evaluating Professionals (IARP)
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Disability & Risk Management
- Physical Rehabilitation’s Role in Disability Management, textbook, 2004, St. Louis, MO, WB Saunders/Elsevier, 459PGS., ISBN 0-7216-8474-2.
- “Risk Management in Work Therapy”, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Clinics, 1(1), July 1992, 167-176
- “Managed Workers’ Compensation”, chapt. In Isernhagen, Susan (ed), Comprehensive Guide to Work Injury , Aspen Pub., 1995
- “Covering the Work Injury Spectrum”, feature story and cover, The Risk & Benefits Journal, Fall 1993
- “Days, Dollars & Disability”: Managed Care, Case Review journal, Summer 1997
- “Workers’ Comp: A Plethora of Opportunities: Disability Management Not, Treatment is the Future of Treating Injured Workers, Rehab Management Magazine, Dec 2004
- “Managed Workers’ Compensation”, Case Review Journal, Summer 1996
- “Payer-Provider Alliances”, Rehab Management Magazine, Aug/Sept 1996
- “Setting sail on the U.S. Chronic Care”, Rehab Management Magazine, Aug, 1999
- “Critical Issues for Determining Successful Work hardening Outcomes”, Physical Therapy Practice, March 1993
- “Life with Managed Care: In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data”, Advance for Rehabilitation Managers, Sept/Oct 1993
- “Occupational Shoulder Injury Management”, chapter in Kelley, M. and Clark W.(eds), Orthopedic Therapy of the Shoulder, Phila:PA, 1995
- "Risk Management in Work Therapy”, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Clinics, 1(1), July 1992, 167-176.
Case Management/Peer Review/Reimbursement
- “It Can’t Happen to Me. Yes it Can!”, Clinical Management Journal, Dec 1992.
- “Reimbursement for and Case Management of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome”, in Low Back Injury and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, proceedings of Project Focus 93 Conference on Work-Related Injury”, Aug, 1993, Foundation for Physical Therapy Research, Alexandria, VA
- “Cumulative Trauma”, a four part series, Industrial Safety & Hygiene News, 1993-1994
- “Preventing Back Injuries: Four Cost Containment Measures”, FOCUS Business J., Jan 1987, Phila:PA
- “Early Detection Key to Holding Carpal Tunnel Costs”, an intervierw by Bruce Shutan, Employee Benefit News, July 1990
- “Marketing and Reimbursement of Work Therapy Services”, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Clinics, 1(1), July 1992, 133-148
- “The Role of an APTA (American Physical Therapy Association) Chapter in Reimbursement: Antitrust Considerations”, Reimbursement News/Jersey Jargon, NJ APTA chapter, Winter 2007
- “National Provider Identifier”, Reimbursement News/Jersey Jargon, NJ APTA, Spring 2008
- “Is the Threat Within: Workers’ Compensation and Physical Therapy Reimbursement?”, Physical Therapy Today, March/Apr 1995
- “Paying for Power: A Look at the Costs Associated with Power Operated Vehicles”, Rehab Management, Nov. 2004
- “Problems and Solutions for Initiating Reimburseable Aquatics”, interview by Carol Apker, Advance for Physical Therapists, July 1995
- “Outcomes Management: A Scramble for Facts”, an interview by Carol Apker, Rehab Management Magazine, June/July 1993
- “New Payment for Industrial Medicine”, interview by Carol Apker, Reab Management Magazine, Aug/Sept 1994
- “Physical Therapy is Now on Payer Radar Screens”, an interview by APTA, Reimbursement News, American Physical Therapy Association, Alexandria:VA, Sept 1996
- “Legal Issues in Peer Review and Utilization Review”, Part I, Physical Therapy Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Jan 1996
- “Legal Issues in Peer review and Utilization Review”, Part II, Physical Therapy Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Feb 1996
- “Making the Grade, Part I,” Case Review journal, Sept 1998
- “Making the Grade, Part II”, Case Review Journal, Oct 1998
- “Physical Therapy: Use of ‘Red Flags’ for Utilization Review Activities”, published in Medical Aspects of Claims,(CPCU training manual) James Markham (ed) Insurance Institute of America, Malvern:PA 1991
- “Reasonable, Necessary and Appropriate: What do they mean?”, International Assn of Rehabilitation Professionals (formerly NARPPS) Newsletter, Non 2002
- “Utilization Review: A Friendlier Managed Care?”, Physical Therapy Magazine, Dec 1996.
- “Utilization Review and management: Physical Therapy on the Radar Screen”, Managed Care Quarterly, Reliance Insurtance Com., Phila:PA, 1996
- “When to Initiate a Physical Therapy Claims Review”, Mediclaim,a natl newsletter, 1(10), State Farm Insurance, Bloomington:IL
- “What is Medically Necessary Physical Therapy?”, Reimbursement News/Jersey Jargon, NJ APTA, Winter 2008
- “Utilization Review in Long Term Care”, Rehab Management Magazine, Aug/Sept 2000
- "Disability Duration Tables, Part I”, Physical Therapy Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Sept 1997
- “Disability Duration Tables, Part II”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Nov 1997
- “Tolerated Treatment Well: May No Longer be Tolerated”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Oct 1995
- “Review Criteria: Cookbook Medicine or Professional Tool?”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Sept 1995
- “A Shift Towards Utilization Management”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, June 1995
- Under the Watchful Eye”, Rehab Management magazine, Dec/Jan1995
- “PT on The Radar Screen”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria: VA
- “UR: You be the Reviewer”, PTMagazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA
- “PT in Now on Payer Radar Screens”, an interview, Reimbursement News, APTA, Alexandria:VA, 1996
- Evaluating Rehabilitation Networks” a two part series, Case Review, Aug/Sept 2000
- UR and You”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Apr 1995
- “Who’s Watching the UROS? , Part I, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Oct 1996
- “Who’s Watching the UROS”, Part II, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Nov. 1996
- “Physical Therapy’s Value Proposition in the Correctional Health Setting”, currently in submission