PTPN: The Solution for Controlling Workers’ Comp Costs

The problem: Out-of-control workers’ compensation costs.
Workers’ comp costs have increased more than 50 percent over the last three years. How can you get better outcomes from physical and occupational therapy and faster return-to-work, while improving cost control?

The solution: PTPN.
PTPN is a network of the nation’s most highly credentialed private practice physical and occupational therapists. With PTPN, you get:

• No conflicts of interest in ownership that drive up utilization, reduce quality of care and incentivize providers to over-treat, as may be the case with physician- or corporate-owned providers. (For more information, click here.) PTPN members are independent therapists who don’t pay corporate overhead, don’t have to generate returns for shareholders and aren’t driven to create additional income for physicians.
• The only independent rehab network with an ongoing quality assurance program that regularly audits providers and measures patient satisfaction. (For more information, click here.)

We’re experts at managing physical and occupational therapy services, a major

workers’ compensation expense. As the oldest and largest specialty network of therapists in independent practice, PTPN offers payers integrity, stability and quality. With one-third of our business volume in managed workers’ comp, PTPN therapists are experienced in managing and delivering care for these complex cases.

We wanted to partner with PTPN because of its good reputation and ability to provide the scope and high levels of service and quality of care to employer clients participating in the Health Care Organization (HCO) program, which covers nearly 400,000 employees with workers’ compensation insurance. Adding PTPN is one of the reasons the HCO achieved a savings of 25-30% on claims and a large decline in the number of cases going to litigation.
Richard M. Michel CEO, Ventura County Foundation for Medical Care