Fwd: FW: California PT Notes **Special Edition** SB 543 - POPTS END RUN BY LEGISLATURE

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Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011

Subject: FW: California PT Notes **Special Edition** SB 543 - POPTS END RUN

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Tim Richmond

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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:06:14 -0500

Subject: California PT Notes **Special Edition** SB 543

California PT Notes

An electronic memo produced by the California Physical Therapy Association <

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Mark your calendar for the 2011 CPTA Annual Conference September 22-23 in

Long Beach

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Physician Referral for Profit

Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg is seeking to add language to

SB 543 to prevent the Physical Therapy Board of California from enforcing

the law pertaining to physical therapists that are employed by medical,

chiropractic and podiatric corporations. Physician-owned physical therapist

services or “POPTS,” have repeatedly shown in medical literature that a

lower quality of care is often provided while allowing millions of dollars

in inappropriate billings to occur. Four states have now banned POPTS, and

Medicare is looking carefully into new rules that will significantly

restrict such practices. Further, this practice has resulted in thousands of

independent physical therapy practitioners and their staff being shoved out

of business, into bankruptcy, and into the unemployment line. Doctors are

now using their advantage in the marketplace to:

• Refer patients only to the physical therapy services they own, including

NOT giving the patients the diagnosis slip they need to see a different

physical therapist. They say they “can’t control the quality of care THAT

physical therapist provides” or other similar excuses to “capture” the

patient and bill for physical therapy services.

• Seek to hire community-based physical therapy clinic owners, and

threatening to put out of business those that don’t “get on board.”

• Get around watered down federal and state conflict of interest laws that

previously prevented physicians from self-referral and obvious conflict of

interest.

The ethical, business and legal aspects of these types of relationships are

being closely scrutinized in terms of restraint of trade and competition,

and interference with consumer choice.

We need your help! Here is what you can do:

Email the Physician Referral for Profit OPPOSE letter through the CPTA

Legislative Action Center <

http://www.congressweb.com/cweb2/index.cfm/siteid/cpta>.

Your letters will protect California consumers and the future of the

physical therapy profession. Thank you for participating in our efforts!

For more information on Physician Referral for Profit and how you can get

involved in our efforts contact Tameka Island at tisland@... or

<tel:>.

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