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Oct 26, 2022/Policies & Bylaws
HOD P08-22-13-15: States APTA's supports for direct-to-employer physical therapist services to improve access, increase quality of care, and decrease health care costs.
Jul 21, 2022/Issue Brief
This issue brief summarizes how the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule works and provides APTA's analysis of the impact on outpatient physical therapy for 2023.
Aug 23, 2019/Review
TKA patients who received physical therapy on the same day as their surgeries were able to walk more while in the hospital and had lower rates of opioid consumption during their stay compared with patients who didn't receive physical therapy until the day after their surgeries.
The Student Advocacy Challenge is a contest for PT and PTA students and programs to participate in advocacy activities as a first step in career-long advocacy engagement. Programs compete against each other by conducting advocacy activities throughout the year.
Jun 25, 2024/Resource
In response to the 2021 APTA House of Delegates position and charge related to productivity standards, an APTA Association Leadership Scholars paper was developed based on a survey distributed to members of APTA Acute Care in June of 2022.
Jun 3, 2020/Author
Brad Cooper, PT, MSPT, ATC, MBA, is the founder of the Catalyst Coaching Institute, which provides the only wellness coach certification (CWC) to earn the approval of the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy, the National Athletic Trainers Association, the National Consortium for the Credentialing
Jan 19, 2021/News
The APTA Physical Therapy Outcomes Registry has been approved as a qualified clinical data registry — an important benefit for PTs in MIPS.
Dec 21, 2021/News
If you provide cash-based services or care for uninsured patients, you need to know about the changes coming Jan. 1, 2022.
Feb 5, 2018/News
In the coming months, APTA will add its complete catalog of Learning Center courses to aPTitude, FSBPT's online system that allows PTs and PTAs to search for CE courses and track attendance.
Jan 18, 2019/News
When it comes to federal advocacy for the physical therapy profession, the watchword is "new"—new priorities after the end of the hard cap on therapy services under Medicare last year, new challenges that have surfaced in the wake of rulemaking and other changes, and a new Congress that needs to be well-acquainted