Decreased rehospitalizations
Proactive oversight that catches deterioration before it becomes a transfer back to the hospital.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), also known as Physiatry, is a branch of medicine that tackles obstacles to therapy and advances patients towards functional goals.
Most specialties own an organ system. Physiatry owns what the patient can do. A physiatrist looks at the whole picture — pain, mobility, medication, cognition, motivation — and asks a single question: what is standing between this person and their next functional milestone?
In a skilled nursing facility that question has a very concrete answer most days. Uncontrolled pain that makes therapy unbearable. A medication regimen that leaves a patient too sedated to participate. A balance deficit nobody has formally assessed. Physiatry exists to find those blockers and remove them.
Our promise
“Surpassing limits, conquering pain.”
Proactive oversight that catches deterioration before it becomes a transfer back to the hospital.
Injections, non-opioid strategies and a structured weaning plan, run by clinicians who do this every day.
Patients who hurt less and progress faster rate their stay higher. So do their families.
At no cost to the facility and without any impact on facility billing.
Core values
Efficiency. Compassion. Impact.
Enhanced capabilities and improved coding accuracy for reimbursement — the clinical work and the documentation move together.
Quality care through a holistic approach to the patient, not a checklist applied to a chart.
Better therapy outcomes and higher patient satisfaction — the two numbers your facility is actually judged on.
Many studies have shown that having a physiatry presence in your facility decreases fall risk, lowers hospital readmission rates, and increases patient satisfaction.
By bringing in a physiatry program, we collaborate with your existing team at no cost to you. Our billing process is separate from that of the facility because we bill as medical consultants, so it does not impact SNF billing. All diagnoses and ICD-10 codes are uploaded directly into PCC/Matrix, ensuring full charge capture for the facility.
We bill as medical consultants. Your revenue cycle is untouched.
Diagnoses and ICD-10 codes land in PCC/Matrix as we document.
Medical oversight maintained on every procedure and treatment we run.
Our teams collaborate with therapists and SNF physicians on shared goals.
Patients, therapists, nurses and administrators, on the difference an American Physiatry team member made.
…Teaching me and my brother about our dad's rehab goals and challenges…
From a patient's family
…Constantly monitoring therapy progress, functional goals and ways to make therapy more effective for my patient…
From a therapist
…Giving my mom joint injections as needed, like in her knees, shoulders, wrists, and ankles…
From a patient's family
…By joining family conferences and care plan meetings to give input…
From a nurse
…Enhancing clinical documentation, which supports therapy, audits, surveys, and boosts CMI…
From an administrator
…Giving me trigger point injections to ease my pain and cut down on the painkillers…
From a patient
…Served as a liaison between the orthopedic surgeon, therapists, nurses, and patient…
From a nurse
…Handling my pain meds, and tapering them off as I got better…
From a patient
A short conversation is enough to scope it.