PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Disability & Risk Management

  1. Physical Rehabilitation’s Role in Disability Management, textbook, 2004, St. Louis, MO, WB Saunders/Elsevier, 459PGS., ISBN 0-7216-8474-2.
     
  2. “Risk Management in Work Therapy”, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Clinics, 1(1), July 1992, 167-176
     
  3. “Managed Workers’ Compensation”, chapt. In Isernhagen, Susan (ed), Comprehensive Guide to Work Injury , Aspen Pub., 1995
     
  4. “Covering the Work Injury Spectrum”, feature story and cover, The Risk & Benefits Journal, Fall 1993
     
  5. “Days, Dollars & Disability”: Managed Care, Case Review journal, Summer 1997
     
  6. “Workers’ Comp: A Plethora of Opportunities: Disability Management Not, Treatment is the Future of Treating Injured Workers, Rehab Management Magazine, Dec 2004
     
  7. “Managed Workers’ Compensation”, Case Review Journal, Summer 1996
     
  8. “Payer-Provider Alliances”, Rehab Management Magazine, Aug/Sept 1996
     
  9. “Setting sail on the U.S. Chronic Care”, Rehab Management Magazine, Aug, 1999
     
  10. “Critical Issues for Determining Successful Work hardening Outcomes”, Physical Therapy Practice, March 1993
     
  11. “Life with Managed Care: In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data”, Advance for Rehabilitation Managers, Sept/Oct 1993
     
  12. “Occupational Shoulder Injury Management”, chapter in Kelley, M. and Clark W.(eds), Orthopedic Therapy of the Shoulder, Phila:PA, 1995
     
  13. "Risk Management in Work Therapy”, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Clinics, 1(1), July 1992, 167-176.
     

Case Management/Peer Review/Reimbursement

  1. “It Can’t Happen to Me. Yes it Can!”, Clinical Management Journal, Dec 1992.
     
  2. “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
     
  3. “Cumulative Trauma”, a four part series, Industrial Safety & Hygiene News, 1993-1994
     
  4. “Preventing Back Injuries: Four Cost Containment Measures”, FOCUS Business J., Jan 1987, Phila:PA
     
  5. “Early Detection Key to Holding Carpal Tunnel Costs”, an intervierw by Bruce Shutan, Employee Benefit News, July 1990
     
  6. “Marketing and Reimbursement of Work Therapy Services”, Orthopaedic  Physical Therapy Clinics, 1(1), July 1992, 133-148
     
  7. “The Role of an APTA (American Physical Therapy Association) Chapter in Reimbursement: Antitrust Considerations”, Reimbursement News/Jersey Jargon, NJ APTA chapter, Winter 2007
     
  8. “National Provider Identifier”, Reimbursement News/Jersey Jargon, NJ APTA, Spring 2008
     
  9. “Is the Threat Within: Workers’ Compensation and Physical Therapy Reimbursement?”, Physical Therapy Today, March/Apr 1995
     
  10. “Paying for Power: A Look at the Costs Associated with Power Operated Vehicles”, Rehab Management, Nov. 2004
     
  11. “Problems and Solutions for Initiating Reimburseable Aquatics”, interview by Carol Apker, Advance for Physical Therapists, July 1995
     
  12. “Outcomes Management: A Scramble for Facts”, an interview by Carol Apker, Rehab Management Magazine, June/July 1993
     
  13. “New Payment for Industrial Medicine”, interview by Carol Apker, Reab Management Magazine, Aug/Sept 1994
     
  14. “Physical Therapy is Now on Payer Radar Screens”, an interview by APTA, Reimbursement News, American Physical Therapy Association, Alexandria:VA, Sept 1996
     
  15. “Legal Issues in Peer Review and Utilization Review”, Part I, Physical Therapy Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Jan 1996
     
  16. “Legal Issues in Peer review and Utilization Review”, Part II, Physical Therapy Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Feb 1996
     
  17. “Making the Grade, Part I,” Case Review journal, Sept 1998
     
  18. “Making the Grade, Part II”, Case Review Journal, Oct 1998
     
  19. “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
     
  20. “Reasonable, Necessary and Appropriate: What do they mean?”, International Assn of Rehabilitation Professionals (formerly NARPPS) Newsletter, Non 2002
     
  21. “Utilization Review: A Friendlier Managed Care?”, Physical Therapy Magazine, Dec 1996.
     
  22. “Utilization Review and management: Physical Therapy on the Radar Screen”, Managed Care Quarterly, Reliance Insurtance Com., Phila:PA, 1996
     
  23. “When to Initiate a Physical Therapy Claims Review”, Mediclaim,a natl newsletter, 1(10), State Farm Insurance, Bloomington:IL
     
  24. “What is Medically Necessary Physical Therapy?”, Reimbursement News/Jersey Jargon, NJ APTA, Winter 2008
     
  25. “Utilization Review in Long Term Care”, Rehab Management Magazine, Aug/Sept 2000
     
  26. "Disability Duration Tables, Part I”, Physical Therapy Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Sept 1997
     
  27. “Disability Duration Tables, Part II”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA,  Nov 1997
     
  28. “Tolerated Treatment Well: May No Longer be Tolerated”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Oct 1995
     
  29. “Review Criteria: Cookbook Medicine or Professional Tool?”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Sept 1995
     
  30. “A Shift Towards Utilization Management”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, June 1995
     
  31. Under the Watchful Eye”, Rehab Management magazine, Dec/Jan1995
     
  32. “PT on The Radar Screen”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria: VA
     
  33. “UR: You be the Reviewer”, PTMagazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA
     
  34. “PT in Now on Payer Radar Screens”, an interview, Reimbursement News, APTA, Alexandria:VA, 1996
     
  35. Evaluating Rehabilitation Networks” a two part series, Case Review, Aug/Sept 2000
     
  36. UR and You”, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Apr 1995
     
  37. “Who’s Watching the UROS? , Part I, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Oct 1996
     
  38. “Who’s Watching the UROS”, Part II, PT Magazine, APTA, Alexandria:VA, Nov. 1996
     
  39. “Physical Therapy’s Value Proposition in the Correctional Health Setting”, currently in submission