Kathy Droese

@gawendaseminars @WebPT @APTAtweets @pps_apta @Optimis_PT Sooo disappointing

Governor Newsom vetos CA AB-931 prior authorization bill that would prohibit a health plan or insurer from requiring prior authorization for the initial 12 PT treatment visits for a new episode of care . @WebPT @APTAtweets @pps_apta @Optimis_PT gov.ca.gov/wp-content/upl…

@gawendaseminars @WebPT The exact reason I encouraged my kids to NOT follow in my career footsteps. That’s a financial pit that few can bounce back from…

Almost 20% of DPT students will have debt ranging between $100,000 - $150,000 per @WebPT State of Rehab Report 2023! #Ascend2023

@gawendaseminars Thanks Rick! Appreciate you coordinating this information. Will get my letter submitted right away!

Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Comments gawendaseminars.com/remote-therape…

@jamilastwocents Our oldest did same & hoping the other 2 college kids will follow: No greater gift than to support financial health. Our stipulations were: home living without cost if salary went to 1) student loan payoff, 2) savings account 3) maxing 401K while at home. Debt free & indep now.

Shout out to my parents for letting me live at home for 4 years so I could 1) pay off $83,000 in student loan debt and 2) build up a 6 month emergency fund and 3) save up $6,000 to move out

My Dad has volunteered many hours to help Ascension High School students plan for future careers. We have set up a go fund me page to help the school hire a position to keep this training going. If you would like to make a tax free donation the link is below.

Help Fund Ascension's Career Planning Program gofund.me/bf3e6176

@gawendaseminars @SecBecerra It sure was👍🏻

@DroeseK @SecBecerra That was a good guess!

Do not know why @SecBecerra is waiting so long to extend the PHE that ends today. This is a no brainer!

@nytimes Food for thought....for those concerned about the vaccine....if the risk was so high, hospitals would not start the vaccination process with our health care front line doctors, nurses, and clinicians.

Breaking News: The FDA authorized Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for millions of highly vulnerable Americans to get it within days. nyti.ms/3qRHk79

@jackattackkk Awwww

I wish I could meet the college version of my parents lmao

@MKEBizJournal Way to go Sean!

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@gawendaseminars @HPAAPTA @pps_apta @WebPT @APTA_Geriatrics About that public health emergency....any news on an official extension?

CMS to discontinue exercising enforcement discretion regarding medical reviews beginning on August 3, 2020, regardless of the status of the public health emergency. cms.gov/files/document… @HPAAPTA @pps_apta @WebPT @APTA_Geriatrics

@karenlitzyNYC All but one. And in real-time LOL.

32! How many of these movies from the 80s have you seen?

@amy_hollyfield Parenting teenagers during COVID has been a whole new adventure....and not a fun one. LOL

In the span of two hours, one daughter asked to go to a party with people who may have been exposed to #coronavirus (No) and the other said someone she was at the beach with may have it (what?) #WFH

@gawendaseminars @APTAtweets @pps_apta @AOTAregulatory @ASHAAdvocacy @KaraGainer @Jerry_DurhamPT @FLFPTA @karenlitzyNYC @SandyHiltonPT Encouraging letter that hopefully gains traction! Thanks for sharing.

Take the time to read this letter and forward it to the appropriate people. ftc.gov/system/files/d… @APTAtweets @pps_apta @AOTAregulatory @ASHAAdvocacy @KaraGainer @Jerry_DurhamPT @FLFPTA @karenlitzyNYC @SandyHiltonPT 1/2

@gawendaseminars @Jerry_DurhamPT @SandyHiltonPT @karenlitzyNYC not only our consideration, but our reconsideration - and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.“ Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, pp 120-121

@gawendaseminars @Jerry_DurhamPT @SandyHiltonPT @karenlitzyNYC “For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a cord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve 1/

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@gawendaseminars 2/2 temporary provider based department of the hospital. Examples of such services include counseling and educational service as well as therapy services. This change expands the types of healthcare providers that can provide using telehealth technology. “

My opinion is this applies only to professional claims that r submitted on a 1500 claim form.

@gawendaseminars @HPAAPTA @APTAtweets @AOTAregulatory @ASHAAdvocacy @Jerry_DurhamPT Rick wouldn’t this paragraph potentially mean UB04 is a go? “Hospitals may bill for services furnished remotely by hospital-based practitioners to Medicare patients registered as hospital outpatients, including when the patient is at home when the home is serving as a...

CMS adds PTs, OTs and SLPs as telehealth providers with retroactive date to March 1, 2020. cms.gov/files/document… @HPAAPTA @APTAtweets @AOTAregulatory @ASHAAdvocacy @Jerry_DurhamPT

@JessieFisherPT @APTAtweets “Hospitals May bill for services furnished remotely by hospital-based practitioners to Medicare patients registered as hospital outpatients, including when the patient is at home” ...”as well as therapy services...” SO I think this would be a yes for institutional billing

@APTAtweets Can anyone confirm if we are allowed to submit claims on a UB-04 claim form?

Responding to APTA advocacy, CMS is providing greater flexibility. APTA summary to come, but the interim rule includes PTs among providers that can furnish telehealth services and is allowing the performance of maintenance therapy by a PTA under Part B: cms.gov/files/document…