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The 60-Day Overpayment Final Rule

Jul 1, 2016/Column

For PTs billing Medicare, the document offers welcome clarity.

A Love of Body Movement Leads to Physical Therapy

Nov 1, 2021/Column

A former ballet dancer sought a more meaningful career that still would keep her on her toes.

Why Isn't Postpartum Physical Therapy Standard Practice? It Should Be

May 9, 2022/Perspective

This is when physical therapy can have a strong impact — during a time of healing, hormonal shifts, and altered body mechanics.

Cash-Based Payment and Medicare Services: No Exceptions to the Rules

Oct 28, 2020/Article

The short answer is that no exceptions allow PTs to bypass these requirements.

Blunt Conversations: Setting Realistic Patient Expectations for Pain

Apr 22, 2018/Interview

Clinicians need to give patients realistic expectations for pain and pain relief. But how?

Payment Win: CMS Reverses Most of Its Damaging Coding Edits, More Details to Come

Jan 24, 2020/News

APTA and its members engaged in extensive advocacy efforts to convince CMS to rethink its decision.

Slump Test

Aug 7, 2017/Test & Measure

A progressive series of maneuvers designed to provide traction to the lumbar nerve roots and to place the sciatic nerve roots under increasing tension.

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in Adults

Jan 10, 2014/Clinical Summary

PTs provide a wide range of rehabilitation services and play a key role in educating and training patients, caregivers, and families in strategies to improve quality of life and prevent medical complications.

From PTJ: Common Activity Trackers May Be Inaccurate for Patients With PD

Aug 6, 2018/Review

Research suggests that PTs may want to think twice about the data they get from patients' commercial activity trackers.

Regulatory Update, Feb. 2, 2022: CMS on Beneficiary Payment for Dry Needling

Feb 2, 2022/Article

CMS still isn't paying for dry needling, but it has provided some guidance on how to successfully bill a beneficiary for the service.