How to Refer a Patient
What physicians and case managers should know
Physicians and case managers may not be aware that Medicare requires that only 60% of acute patients have a CMS-13 diagnosis, which are:
- Amputation
- Brain injury
- Burns
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Stroke
- Congenital deformity
- Hip fracture
- Joint Replacements
- Major multiple trauma
- Neurological disorders
- Multiple sclerosis
- Motor neuron disease
- Encephalopathy
- Critical illness myopathy/polyneuropathy
- ALS
- Parkinson’s disease
- Guillain Barré
- Systemic vasculidities with joint inflammation
- Active rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Seronegative Arthropathies
- Severe or Advanced Osteoarthritis
Other rehabilitation diagnoses and conditions doctors and case managers should consider for rehabilitation may include diagnoses such as:
- Immune Deficiency Diseases
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Cardiac conditions such as
- Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
- Congestive heart failure (CHF)
- Myocardial infarction (MI)
- Laminectomy
- Neuropathy
- Orthopedic injuries
- Pneumonia
- Respiratory failure
- Wound care
- Conditions affecting mobility, activities of daily living (ADL’s), swallowing or cognition/thinking abilities
- Late effects from previous neurological injury or illness, i.e. brain injury, stroke or spinal cord injury
- Other conditions or complications
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To make a referral or for more information, contact our admissions department at 817 370-4760. You will be put in contact with one of our rehabilitation liaisons to perform a pre-admission screening and coordinate transfer to our hospital.
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Everitt stayed at HealthSouth Fort Worth for fifteen days, after which he was walking over one hundred feet with his walker, and his orthopedic surgeon cleared him for surgery.
Leon Everitt
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