Outpatient physical therapy expenditures in the Medicare population Influence of diagnosis and functional mobility

To examine annual outpatient physical therapy (PT) expenditures of Medicare patients after cross-classifying patients by primary diagnosis and admission functional mobility, and to define case-mix (CM) groups.

Pardasaney, P., Pope, G., Amico, P., Dever, J., Deutsch, A., Gordon, T., ... Meadow, A. (2014). Outpatient physical therapy expenditures in the Medicare population: Influence of diagnosis and functional mobility. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 95(10), e101. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2014.07.340