Prompt
You are helping a physical therapist write a Medicare Part B progress report covering visits {{visit_range}}.

Initial evaluation baselines: {{initial_measures}}
Current objective measures: {{current_measures}}
Goals from the plan of care, verbatim: {{goals}}

Write the report in this structure:
1. Objective progress: current versus baseline for each measure, with the change stated plainly. Mark each goal met, progressing, or not met.
2. Functional impact: what the changes mean for the patient's daily function, using only the functional details I provided.
3. Skilled-care justification: why continued treatment requires a licensed therapist — clinical decision-making, progression grading, safety monitoring — not a gym membership. Be specific to the remaining deficits.
4. Plan: what changes in the plan of care for the next reporting period, or state that it continues unchanged and why.

Constraints:
- Use only the measures and goals I gave you. Insert [NEED: item] for anything a Medicare reviewer expects that is missing.
- If a measure is flat or declining, do not spin it — state it, and if skilled care remains necessary to maintain function or prevent decline, justify continued care on that basis (the Jimmo standard) instead of inventing improvement.
- No superlatives. Numbers and clinical reasoning only.

Fill in your details and the prompt updates live — then copy.

What you get back (excerpt)

Objective progress (visits 13-22): Berg Balance Scale improved from 38/56 to 45/56 (goal 48 or higher: progressing). Gait speed improved from 0.6 to 0.8 m/s (goal 1.0 m/s: progressing). TUG improved from 18 to 14 seconds. [NEED: outdoor walker trial status for goal 3] Functional impact: These gains move the patient from household-ambulator range toward the community-ambulation threshold, directly reducing fall risk during essential outdoor mobility. Skilled-care justification: Remaining deficits present in variable, unpredictable environments; progression now requires graded perturbation and dual-task training with real-time safety monitoring — clinical decision-making a home program cannot replicate. Plan: Continue 2x/week for 4 weeks with emphasis on outdoor surface transitions.

The full workflow

  1. Pull baseline and current measures from the flow sheets before drafting
  2. Run the prompt and fill every [NEED] flag from the chart
  3. Confirm the skilled-care rationale describes what you actually do in sessions
  4. Sign the report, and calendar the next one before the 10th visit

Watch out for

Never let AI manufacture progress. A flat Berg score described as 'improving' in a signed Medicare document is a false claim — and unnecessary, since Jimmo v. Sebelius makes honestly justified maintenance care coverable.

HIPAA: measures and goals only. No names, dates of birth, or Medicare numbers in a consumer AI tool.

Where this comes from

Every use case on this site is grounded in real reports from working physical therapists — not invented by us.

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