Jim Mecham is interviewed in Advance for Occupational Therapy
OccuCare Systems and Solutions is proud to announce the recent release of an article in Advance for Occupational Therapy Practitioners April 26th, 2010 issue. Jim Mecham, MS, OTR/L, AEP was interviewed for a work and industry article in this publication. The article was titled "A New Approach: Worker's Comp could become a driving force behind profitability in OT". The article focused on today's tumultuous health care and specifically on reimbursement cuts for Occupational Therapy services. The catch is however, worker's compensation reimbursement continues to rise throughout the United States and OT clinics that focus on specializing in treating the work comp patient will remain ahead of the game in regards to profitability. Many rehab professionals and their management think you require Functional Capacity Evaluations to perform industrial rehab? The key is to implement a full array of return to work services for your worker's compensation patients and begin performing functional re-assessments as early as acute outpatient therapy. Clinics that treat until full duty return to work is achieved, and not just until traditional 5/5 and full range discharge, are clinics that specialize in the treatment of the injured worker.
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Mr. Mecham is the primary developer of OccuCare Systems and Solutions comprehensive suite of industrial rehab software. This is the only software system that entire rehabilitation departments have implemented. All outpatient therapists and industrial therapists use OccuCare's Online Assessment Application. The testing OccuCare teaches rehab departments span from acute outpatient return to work functional testing all the way to full Functional Capacity Evaluations following a work hardening/conditioning program. This approach helps turn clinicians into return to work specialists and thus helps to greatly improve profitability since the clinic and clinicians expand their services within the highest paying reimbursement system within the United States.Jim greatly enjoys talking with other clinicians about comprehensive return to work testing or how you can be a specialist in the treatment of the injured worker so feel free to contact him at 866-470-4440 or e-mail him at jmecham@occucare.net.
