Re: Next Rx needed for physical therapy/

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is right and it is just a new prescription. My Doctor will ask me what is

still wrong, ask the PT what I still need work on and they include that as the

treatment plan and she does a new assessment. If it is a different area and does

those accurate measurements to see how I have managed to stretch better, and

bend, and even bring my knee to chest.

Boy, those are goals I work on all the time. I used to take that movement for

granted. My Physical Therapist always sent a " summary " to my Primary Care and

Pain Management Nurse Practitioner so she didn't think I was not doing my

program. I have a real hard time with spasm but the neural blocks helped and the

botox did and we got Medicare to pay for it.

My pain Doctor was complaining that they were denying the injections and I

thought this should not be so I went on the CPT codes (codes they use for

payment ) and found where Medicare paid for muscular skeletal spasm and she

resubmitted with the code information and Medicare paid. She teased me and

said, " Are you sure you can't come back to work? " I said I just would end up on

the floor in a fetal position trying to stay out of pain.

It made me feel good to assist someone but also find out I could get it paid.

Bennie

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Us old nurses end up having just one patient, ourselves. I think we get better

care than average because we know how to research this stuff and how to convince

the doctors to work with us.

Carolyn Eddy

" Sweet Goat Mama "