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APTA CEO Moore Joins Amputee Coalition Board

Jan 14, 2020/News

APTA Chief Executive Officer Justin Moore, PT, DPT, has been unanimously elected to serve a four-year term on the Board of the Amputee Coalition, a leading national advocacy organization. The Amputee Coalition serves the more than two million Americans with limb loss and limb difference and more than

CMS Coding Reversal Will Apply to Claims Made Beginning January 1, 2020

Jan 29, 2020/News

Details are still emerging around exactly how CMS intends to walk back a decision to change coding methodologies that prevented PTs from billing an evaluation performed on the same day as therapeutic activities and/or group therapy activities. But we know a little more now: namely, that the decision

JAMA: Easing Administrative Complexity, Eliminating Low-Value Care Among Ways to Reduce Health Care Waste and Lower Expenditures

Oct 22, 2019/Review

A review found that the estimated annual cost of health care waste ranges from a total of $760 billion to $935 billion.

CMS, HHS Propose More Exceptions to, Safe Harbors in Self-Referral Law

Oct 15, 2019/News

HHS thinks it's time to bring some Stark law provisions up-to-date in ways that accommodate alternative payment models.

CMS Hospital Discharge Rule Puts the Focus on Patient Choice, Goals in Postacute Care

Oct 2, 2019/Review

The big picture: a better patient discharge process that falls short in some areas.

Senate Report Calls for More Emphasis on Falls Prevention

Oct 21, 2019/News

A Senate committee presses for more concerted efforts to prevent falls among the elderly—including wider access to physical therapy.

Biased? Me? PT in Motion Magazine Takes a Look at Unconscious Cultural Attitudes

Oct 7, 2019/News

Want to get an up-close glimpse at a person with cultural biases? Follow these instructions: 1. Grab a mirror. 2. Look into it. That's one way to summarize the starting point for "Battling Bias's Distorted Images," the cover story for the October issue of PT in Motion magazine. The article makes the

Physician Fee Schedule and QPP: A New Payment World Awaits PTs in 2019

Nov 2, 2018/News

Many PTs will face a new payment landscape beginning in January, now that CMS has finalized a rule that ends FLR and moves certain PTs into the Quality Payment Program.

JAMA Oncology: Telerehab Makes a Difference in Patients With Advanced-Stage Cancer

Apr 8, 2019/Review

"Collaborative telerehabilitation" isn't a regular part of care for patients with advanced-stage cancer, but maybe it should be, say researchers.

New National Academies Report on Pain Management and Opioids Recommends More Public Education, Reimbursement Models Supporting Nondrug…

Jul 18, 2017/News

Recommendations in a new National Academies report on pain management include the need to support nonpharmacologic approaches to pain treatment through better reimbursement models, and the necessity of continued efforts to educate the public on effective alternatives to opioids.