'Vacation' Part Duex aka Patience

This is a continuation of the entry below entitled 'vacation'... I was giving a run down of what was discussed at Lobby Day in Albany, NY just to catch you up. For the record this is attempt two at this post as I wrote a whole entry but because I did not let the page load all the way when I started the entry I lost it all... hence 'patience'...
- Unfair co-pays was another issue we discussed there. Certain companies consider PT under 'specialist' rates which can be $25-40 per visit for the patient. These are the same co-pay rates that neurologists charge. When you see most 'specialists' it is for around 3 visits for the whole episode of care, whereas with PT it can be 3x/wk for a few months. Not many people can afford to pay $75 a week and thus end up not coming in for the care they need. This co-pay setting is very prohibitive. What's more is many primary care practioners co-pay rates are in the $10 range. We as PT's could be considered a 'practitioner of choice' when it comes to musculoskeletal issues.

Bottm line from Lobby Day is there are a lot of issues with reimbursement. Not getting paid at a reasonable rate leads to people not being able to maintain what they would like to be able to do and many PT clinics end up incurring huge financial losses every year until they go out of business.

So now that the worst semester of my academic career is over, there is a lot to do moving forward, I'll keep you all updated :)