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Jul 28, 2026/Podcast
Listening Time — 26:12 Podcast Platforms Icons Getting into DPT school is a major milestone — but it's only the beginning. In this episode of the APTA Podcast, Noah Ackerman, Ida Hoxha, and Melissa Dreger, PT, DPT, MA, share what it really takes to move from acceptance to confidence as a Doctor of Physical
A major factor influencing payment for physical therapist services is how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services values and reimburses Current Procedural Terminology, or CPT, codes. CMS uses Relative Value Units, or RVUs, within the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, or RBRVS, payment system
May 1, 2016/Column
Remember, you can’t spell "realistic" without "real."
Jul 9, 2021/Review
Post-COVID-19 patients referred to rehab report poorer overall health and greater functional limitations at baseline.
Jun 5, 2017/Test & Measure
Measures the degree to which an individual is able to perform upper extremity and lower extremity functional activities.
Jun 1, 2016/Feature
Clinician-scientists bridge a key gap between research and clinical practice, these PTs say. But there simply aren't enough of them.
Jul 25, 2025/News
After five years of cuts, CMS proposes an increase in the conversion factor but devalues physical therapy codes.
Apr 30, 2025/News
The rule offers limited insight into the new administration's plans for MA policy.
Aug 22, 2017/Test & Measure
This is an eight-item scale that examines a person’s level of function when performing activities that are related to Upper Extremity Disorders.
Jan 5, 2024/Test & Measure
Measures limitations and unidimensionality of prior existing functional status outcomes such as the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS).
