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Feb 1, 2025/Column
How becoming the patient changed the clinical perspective of this clinician.
Apr 1, 2024/Column
A physical therapist finds meaning and purpose through politics.
Mar 1, 2024/Column
One PT takes a risk by opening a private practice with a mission to serve all.
A Second Opinion for a Second Chance
Feb 27, 2024/Resource
Note: Resource originally created Dec. 22, 2020 and updated on Feb. 27, 2024. Weighting Each of the four MIPS categories — quality, improvement activities, promoting interoperability, and cost — is weighted to determine how much influence it has on a clinician's final score. The weights of each category
Jun 1, 2024/Feature
How productivity standards affect quality of care in physical therapy — and what can be done about it.
Mar 1, 2024/Feature
Direct-to-employer physical therapy companies take out the insurance middleman.
Aug 3, 2026/Article
The American Physical Therapy Association has published an updated clinical practice guideline for physical therapist management of patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, or TKA, for osteoarthritis. The guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for preoperative education, postoperative
Jul 27, 2026/Article
The APTA Payment Advocacy Summit brought together 450 physical therapy advocates, business leaders, and payment experts at a critical moment in APTA's fight to advance physical therapy payment policies that support practice sustainability and patient access to care. Building on the momentum of recent
Jul 24, 2026/Article
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimates that physical therapy codes could see an overall payment increase of 1-3% under the Calendar Year 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule. Although CMS proposes a 1.68% decrease to the conversion factor for most clinicians, including
