Alliance of Independent Physical Therapists(AIPT)

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AIPT-NYPTA: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Learned
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WHY JOIN the AIPT?

Membership will help you reap these benefits:

• Networking with other practitioners
• Improved communications with insurers
• Influence on reimbursement through our volume
• Practice management tips, workshops
• A voice for your concerns in political action and lobbying efforts

Membership gets you "Start-up Packet" that helps facilitate actions towards reimbursement issues

• Attorney General complaint forms for patients
  
• Data collection spreadsheets to easily track authorization and denial data
  
• Contact List ofspecial project directors
  
• Fact sheet for public relations, media information
  
• Links to NYPTA and APTA information sites
  
• Problem Payer Forms
• Anit-trust brochure from association

Prior activities:

• Letters and meetings with OrthoNet./United Healthcare/Oxford/ BCBS
  
• Data collection sheets
  
• Legal investigation of strategies for action with insureres, AG office
  
• Delineation of projects and strategies
  
• Established coordination with New York Council of Physiotherapists on common goals
• Develop Liaisons in Upstate/Western NY districts
• Analize data of authorizations to see patterns, investigate denials
• Investigate POPTS/HOPTS proliferations

Planned Actions:

• Organize seminar on efficient date and autorizations tracking
  
• Joint AIPT - NYCouncil meeting
  
• Develop references for practice management and growth - Software reps, billing programs, Web site development, personnel management