Don't let the Aliens Control Your Direct Access to Physical Therapy!

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Don't let the Aliens your Direct Access to Physical Therapy!

Lowering Healthcare Costs

IT’S A GRAY AREA:
Lowering costs of health care

By JAMES P. GRAY -- Daily Pilot

I will get this fact out of the way at the beginning: My wife is a physical therapist, and she owns and manages her own physical therapy practice in the City of Orange. So maybe I have a bias.

Having said that, I want to call your attention to a change that should be made that will reduce the costs of effective health care and increase the general fairness of the health-care system. What is that change? Allow “direct access” for physical therapy in California.

What does that mean? Today patients who are covered by health insurance can go for evaluation and treatment to their chosen chiropractor, acupuncturist, marriage and family counselor, or psychologist and have those visits reimbursed by their health insurers without being first required to obtain a prescription from a physician. But to go to see a physical therapist, patients must first obtain that prescription. This, of course, requires patients to spend extra time and money before they can obtain their physical therapy.

How did this disparity occur? Click here for more.