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The Pediatric Movement Center strives to provide quality treatment services for your child.
Below are commonly used forms for download and our updated attendance, sickness, hygiene and weather policies.

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Schedule Change

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Therapy Order

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Patient Record
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The Pediatric Movement Center strives to provide quality treatment services for your child. Regular attendance is necessary to establish a positive treatment routine and to ensure progress is made toward your child’s goals. We want your family to view your child’s treatment appointment as a regularly scheduled event. In fairness to children currently waiting for services, please be advised of our updated attendance policy:


MISSED/CANCELLED APPOINTMENT ACTION/FEES

24 hour notice required for a cancellation - No Fee

3 missed/cancelled visits within 2 months (without

reschedule) - moved to flex scheduling.


NO-SHOW ACTIONS/FEES

No show appointment  - $35.00

2 no show appointments in 2 months  - moved to flex scheduling

3 no show appointments - Discharged


TARDINESS ACTION/FEE

Consistent tardiness of 10 or more minutes

for scheduled appointments- No Fee, Removed from scheduled therapy and placed on weekly call list for therapy treatment


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The Pediatric Movement Center will be closed in all locations to observe the following holidays. 


• New Year’s Day

• MLK Day

• Presidents' Day

• Good Friday

• Memorial Day

• Independence Day

• Labor Day

• Thanksgiving

• Christmas Eve

• Christmas Day


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The Pediatric Movement Center is a multi-disciplinary pediatric therapy clinic. Due to the medical needs of our

clients and in consideration of health of our staff/therapist, we require that parents/caregivers cancel treatment

sessions for the following reasons:


• Illness symptoms within the last 24 hours

• Fever: child must be fever free (no temperature greater than 101 degrees) for the last 24 hours

• Diarrhea: Five or more loose, watery stools within 24 hours

• Vomiting within the last 24 hours

• Sore throat or difficulty swallowing

• Rash or spots on skin; ringworm infection

• Severe itching

• Mouth sores

• Eye discharge

• Unusual nasal discharge

• Uncontrolled coughing

• Difficulty breathing, wheezing

• Wounds that are not properly covered


SOILED CLOTHING

If you child has child has urinated or defecated in their clothing during a treatment session and does not have a proper change of clothes, the session will be ended at that time.


HEAD LICE

The Pediatric Movement Center supports the Head Lice Policy of the American Association of Pediatrics. If you know your child has live crawling head lice, begin a treatment to kill live lice before coming to therapy. We advise seeking professional care of lice and nit removal. Child must be cleared of nits and lice prior to returning to therapy clinic to support containment of lice and reduce risk of spreading to others and on therapy equipment.


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In the case of inclement weather, Pediatric Movement Center (PMC) facilities may close, delay opening or close earlier than usual. PMC will follow the weather delay/closure decisions of the local County Public School System in which each PMC clinic is located. All cancelled or missed therapy appointments are expected to be rescheduled in accordance with the PMC therapy attendance policy.The severe weather policy is detailed below:


DELAY


If the local county public school system has a delayed start time, PMC facilities will open at 11:00am. 

Therapy Clients: All scheduled patient appointments prior to 11:00 am will be immediately converted to telehealth visits. 

KidMotion Clients: Students enrolled in weekly classes or a program are entitled for a free make-up class or account credit.


CLOSES EARLY

If the local county public school system closes early, PMC will close at 1:00pm 

All scheduled patient appointments after to 1:00 pm will be immediately converted to telehealth visits. 

KidMotion Clients: Students enrolled in weekly classes or a program are entitled for a free make-up class or account credit.



CLOSURE

If the local county public school system is closed, PMC will be closed. 

All scheduled patient appointments will be immediately converted to telehealth visits. 

KidMotion Clients: Students enrolled in weekly classes or a program are entitled for a free make-up class or account credit.


CLOSED FOR EVENING ACTIVITIES

If the local county public school system closes evening activities, PMC will close at 4:00pm. 

All scheduled patient appointments after 4:00 pm will be offered as telehealth visits. 

KidMotion Clients: Students enrolled in weekly classes or a program are entitled for a free make-up class or account credit.


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Insurances

Below is a list of insurance networks accepted by the Pediatric Movement Center. If your insurance provider is not on the list, please feel free to call our office to explore out-of-network benefits, as some insurances will cover services provided by one of our licensed clinicians.


Participating Insurances*

• Aetna

• Humana

• United Healthcare

• Maryland Medicaid

• Medicare

• Maryland Physician’s Care

• Carefirst/BlueCross Blue Shield

• Priority Partners

• Cigna

• John Hopkins Health Care

• Kaiser Permanente

• Tricare (typically out-of-network benefits)

• UMR

• Wellpoint (formerly Amerigroup)

• West Virginia Medicaid


* Some insurances may need a referral prior to services. The Pediatric Movement Center requires all patients to have a prescription requesting an evaluation for physical, occupational and/or speech therapy.



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