Sadly, my advice to him was not to have a well trained staff, but a good billing agency.
Our conversation continued about the reimbursement changes to insurance and Medicare, prospective payment in some states, and penalty for billing multiple codes.
If you are fed up and saddened by the current state of our profession, here a quick way to help to change it in less than 3 minutes. (it took me 2 minutes 37 seconds)
You and your; patients, family and friends can write your Senators and State Representative regarding the Medicare cap using the APTA legislative action portion of their web site.
Below is the link for APTA members:
https://www.apta.org/aptalogin.aspx?redirectto=http://www.apta.org/apta/advocacy/lac.aspx?navID=10737423155
Non members of APTA and people from the community can the link to this address and advocate.
http://capwiz.com/amerpta/issues/alert/?alertid=62327476
Our future as well as the future of every American citizen is impacted by this legislature.