Medical Rehab Matters

In our final episode of season 4, we look ahead to 2025 and beyond, with AMRPA's policy team. Our guests are Kate Beller , President of Government Relations and Policy, Troy Hillman , Director of Quality and Health Policy, and Joe Nahra , Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Policy. Read more about AMRPA's Policy Priorities on our website. This episode is hosted by P atricia Sullivan ,...

Meet AMRPA's first Chief Clinical Officer, Dr Karl Sandin. In this episode, Dr. Sandin talks about the how's and why's of this new role. Our other guest is AMRPA President Kate Beller. Hosted by Patricia Sullivan, AMRP A director of communications . Email Dr. Sandin at cco@amrpa.org . https://amrpa.org/podcast/

  Each October, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) celebrates National Physical Therapy Month. In this episode, AMRPA Board Chair Chris Lee talks his career, which started in physical therapy, the importance of physical therapy in inpatient medical rehab, and how his training in PT impact s his work both as the vice president and chief operating officer of Madonna Hospitals and with...

National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, Sept. 16-22, 2024, is an initiative started by the National Rehabilitation Awareness Foundation and held during the third full week in September of every year. In this episode, we talk about what it is, why AMRPA is involved, and how you can participate as well. Our guest is Adam Robertson , senior marketing manager for AMRPA. Hosted by Patricia Sullivan, Di...

Our fourth season kicks off with a discussion and update on the Review Choice Demonstration or RCD as it expands into Pennsylvania in June. Our guests are Dr. Alberto Esquenazi , Chief Medical Officer at MossRehab in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and a member of the AMRPA Board of Directors; Andrew Baird , Senior Vice President of Public Policy, Legislation, and Regulations at Encompass Health and co...

Recorded at the 2023 AMRPA Fall Conference and Expo, we present a panel discussion looking ahead ‎at the future of inpatient medical rehabilitation featuring Kate Beller, JD , EVP for Policy Development and Government Relations, AMRPA ; Anthony Cuzzola , Vice President, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute ; Troy Hillman , Director of Quality and Health Policy, AMRPA ; and Joe Nahra , Director of...

Meet  Wayne Moorehead , the Patient Perspective Speaker at the 2023 AMRPA Fall Educational Conference and Expo. Wayne is joined by two members of his care team at TIRR Memorial Hermann,  Kristin Reeves, PT, MS , Physical Therapist, and  Vinay Vanodia, MD,  Director, Limb Loss program, Amputee Rehabilitation and Prosthetics and Orthotics,  TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital.

Meaningful Data in Medical Rehabilitation: The Value of eRehabData for AMRPA's Advocacy Efforts is a panel discussion featuring  Sam Fleming , from Fleming AOD,  Chris Lee , from Madonna Rehab Hospitals,  Joyal Pavey  from Mary Free Bed Advisory Group,  Shaun McNelis  from Select Medical, and AMRPA's  Kate Belle r and  Troy Hillman . Recorded at the AMRPA Fall Educational Conference & Expo.  

In this episode we're talking about the AMRPA Medical Rehabilitation Managment Certification -- or MRMC. We talk with two of the team that created and manages the program, and two people who earned their MRMC in 2021, Scott Littig , MBA, MRMC, MA, CCC/SLP, and Renee Lomax, MSN- Admin, BSN , RN, CRN-C10, MRMC. And certificants     Misty A. Brady , PT, DPT, MRMC, and Belinda Lemcool , MSN, RN, CRRN,...

CMS ' Review Choice Demonstration will begin   impa cting inpatient medical rehab hospitals and units in Alabama summer 2023. We discuss possible implications for patients , including possible access to care issues . T his episode is intended to be e ducational as we approach the start of the program . Additional information was released while we were recording. And we'll address that, and other u...

This episode features two speakers from the AMRPA Spring Conference . Theirs are stories of serious injuries, hope and advocacy .  Jamie MoCrazy , founder and CEO of MoCrazy Strong , and Sam Porritt , the founder and board chair of the Falling Forward Foundation . Jamie was a professional skier who experienced a serious accident in a competition. Sam was seriously injured while on vacation in Ital...

We're celebrating Nursing Week with two rehab nur ses who exemplify the profession : Amanda Hansen, RN , is the nurse manager of acute rehab, and Terasa Farlin, BSN, RN, CRRN, is vice president of patient care and chief nursing officer at Madonna Rehab ilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska.     Co-hosts: Dr. Robert Krug, former chair of the AMRPA Board of Directors, and AMRPA Communications Dire...

In this episode, we address a proposal by CMS to cover seat elevation equipment in Group 3 power wheelchairs. Our guests are Joe Nahra, Co-Coordinator of the ITEM Coalition, and Ali Ingersoll, a disability strategy consultant, Ms. Wheelchair America 2023, and a day trader. Co-hosts are Patricia Sullivan, AMRPA Director of Communications, and Kate Beller, AMRPA Executive Vice President for Governme...

Welcome to Medical Rehab Matters. Our guest in this episode is Leela Baggett , a Senior Ass ociate at Powers Law, who talks with co hosts Dr. Robert Krug , and Kate Beller , about one of AMRPA's top policy priorities in 2022, the 3 Hour Rule modernization bill. You'll learn what the three hour rule is, its history, and what it means for inpatient medical rehab care. 

In this episode we're celebrating AMRPA's 25 th anniversary with a panel discussion recorded at our 2022 Fall Conference. You'll hear about how AMRPA was founded, the changes in the field, and a look ahead to what the next 25 years may bring. This session was moderated by Dr. Bruce Gans , AMRPA Chief Policy Officer and AMRPA Board Chairman from 2009-2011, 2014-2017. Our panelists are Kate Beller ,...

In this episode, we hear from Richard Diegel , the Patient Perspective Speaker at the 2022 AMRPA Fall Conference . Rich overcame the worst of what COVID-19 could throw at him and then transitioned to St. Mary's Rehabilitation Hospital. Rich is joined by his wife Donna , and Carly Bixler , his physical therapist.   

In this episode, we discuss the value inpatient medical rehab brings to health systems and learn about a new physical medicine and rehab residency program that started in Connecticut in July. Our guests are Subramani Seetharama , MD , Program Director of the PM&R Residency Program at UConn and chief of the Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and medical director at Hartford Healthcare R...

In this episode, we're talking the value of AMRPA. In the first segment we talk with Doug Baer , President and CEO of Brooks Rehab, and Amanda Osborne , Vice President of Operations and Administrator for the Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital – University Campus. In the second segment we talk with John Ferraro , AMRPA Executive Director. Our cohosts are Robert Krug , MD, former chair of the AMRPA Boar...

In this episode of Medical Rehab Matters, we talk about pediatric rehab. Our guests today are Doug Henry, MD, the director of the Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital pediatric program; and Andrea Dennis, DPT, manager for the Mary Free Bed Kids Outpatient Therapy Program. She graduated from Grand Valley State University with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy. She joined the Mary Free Bed team in 20...

In this episode, we're talking about the policy work AMRPA does every day. We talk with three guests about the policy work they do for AMRPA in particular, and the inpatient medical rehabilitation field and patients, in general. Our guests are Kate Beller , AMRPA Executive Vice President for Government Relations and Policy Development; Jonathan Gold , Director of Government Relations and Regulator...

In this episode we talk with Miguel Escal ó n , MD , about physical medicine and rehab physician s, how they 're trained and their work in an inpatient medical rehabilitation hospital or unit. Dr. Escal ó n is a physiatrist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, as well as chair of the Resident Fellow Program Directors Council of the American Academy of Physiatry. He is also t...

In this episode, we talk with former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her speech pathologist, Fabi Hirsch, PhD. On January 8 , 20 11, the Arizona congresswoman was shot in the head at pointblank range when an assailant opened fire during a constituent event outside a grocery store in Tucson.   Eleven years after the shooting , she still lives with aphasia, a communication disorder frequently assoc...

In this episode we continue our discussion of Medicare Advantage plans and prior authorization with a focus on the impact of prior auth on the health system at large. Our guests are Vishwa Raj, MD, Medical Director at Carolinas Rehabilitation; and David Storto, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Growth Officer for Well Force and a former member of the AMRPA board of directors.    Our co...

In this episode we look at Medicare Advantage plans and prior authorization and a recent report by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General . Our guests are Robyn Pauker , an attorney , and her husband, David Honig , a healthcare attorney , who talk about Robyn's father's experience with prior authorization, and Dr. Brian Moore , Chief Medical Officer for Physic...

This is the second of two episodes on a report on The Role of IRH/Us During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.    As we discussed in our last episode, in 2021 AMRPA retained ATI Advisory (to conduct quantitative and qualitative research on the role of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals (IRHs) during the pandemic. A presentation and panel discussion were held during the 2022 AMPRA Spring Confere...