Recovery episodes
Recovery measured against
her own baseline.
After an ACL reconstruction, the record fragments: the surgeon sees visits, the PT sees sessions, the family sees a calendar — and after discharge, nobody sees anything. A recovery episode holds the whole arc on one timeline, anchored to the baseline captured before the injury ever happened.
The episode, end to end
Procedure, date, laterality, graft, and concomitant work recorded once, structured. The episode opens with the athlete’s pre-injury baseline already attached.
Symptoms, home-program adherence, and red flags tracked between visits — so the six days a week you don’t see the patient stop being a blind spot.
Standardized reassessment at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months — strength, movement quality, and patient-reported function against the athlete’s own pre-injury normal, not just population norms.
Return to participation, to sport, and to performance tracked as distinct states. Criteria and the clinician’s decision are preserved — the platform informs the call, you make it.
Reinjury, unplanned care, therapy utilization, and time-to-function captured through the full arc — the outcome record that today ends at discharge.
Why each seat at the table wants this
For surgeons
See how patients actually progress after they leave your clinic — including the training months between PT discharge and real return, where most re-injuries brew unseen.
For PTs
Objective milestone anchors, measured home-program adherence, and a structured handoff into supervised training instead of a discharge into the void.
For the athlete and family
One continuous record and one plan across every handoff — with progress they can see against her own baseline, not a stranger’s average.
Billing stays where the license is
The provider bills
Where remote-monitoring or other billable clinical work exists, the provider is the billing entity and certifies medical necessity and work performed. The platform records what happened; it does not bill.
One episode, one owner
Each recovery episode has a single billing owner, conflict-checked — no duplicate claims across surgeon, PT, and other practitioners.
Arm’s-length fee
Better Athlete charges a flat technology and service fee. Never a percentage of reimbursement, never a per-referral payment — the structure is designed to pass a compliance review, not to test one.
Better Athlete supports — and never guarantees — reimbursement. Coverage and payment depend on the payer, the clinical work performed, and applicable policy. Recovery episodes operate under the appropriate provider agreements and consent.