Allied specialty care is a term used by Triad to define the various healthcare disciplines that offer "hands on," therapeutic services to people complaining of a wide class of conditions defined by either pain or loss of physical function.
Allied specialty providers are generally limited in scope to non-surgical, non prescriptive disciplines.
Care is generally rendered by multiple, repetitive sessions over a period of days, weeks or months.
The most commonly utilized forms of allied specialty care are physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy.
These disciplines will often address the same patient with differing treatment philosophies and approaches designed to effect unique, but poorly defined physical causes for complaints of pain and functional impairment.
These disciplines are generally more focused on painful conditions and less invasive in their treatment approach than other medical disciplines. They often produce high quality clinical outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction and loyalty.
Triad manages allied specialty care by the careful measurement of patient pain and function as treatment is delivered. Progressive and sustained improvement is a hallmark of medically necessary allied specialty care. Failure for the care to produce such results usually indicates an endpoint to the value of this type of care.
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