Guest guest Posted July 16, 2001 Report Share Posted July 16, 2001 Hi everyone..... People misrepresenting themselves as PTs & OTs is very common atleast in the Detroit area. I used to work there back in the mid 90's and I ran into scores of aides who represented themselves as PT even to Doctors and other professionals. No one bothered to check. The problem is worse now I believe. Aides performed evals and treatments with absolutely no supervision from a PT. Employers preferred aides over RPTs for fiscal reasons(reimbursement was the same as long as the notes were signed by an RPT). 2 or 3 companies jointly hired one RPT to sit and blindly sign evals and progress notes (very risky but obviously a very viable mode of operation). Eventually RPTs were practically forced to move out or settle for very low renumeration. The problem is that there is no one here to enforce the stringent laws of our practice. There is absolutely no way of knowing if the aide was supervised or not, or even if the aide even knows the therapist. Its not easy to report these individuals or employers because of loopholes in the system and very clever lawers. Scary and illegal is putting it lightly! Leonard Bernard RPT. leo@... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 6/20/2002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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