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Patient-Driven Groupings Model

The PDGM is a shift away from volume-driven home health payment to a model that focuses on the unique characteristics, needs, and goals of each patient.

Get to Know APTA Pediatrics: An Interview With Academy President Mary Jane Rapport

Jun 3, 2025/Podcast

At the APTA Combined Sections Meeting in February 2024, students got a chance to ask questions and get advice from section leaders. In this installment, Britton Farnum, PT, DPT, interviews APTA Pediatrics President Mary Jane Rapport, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA. Learn what Rapport says about the skills, settings,

9-Hole Peg Test (9-HPT or NHPT)

Jan 21, 2013/Test & Measure

For people with neurological conditions such as parkinson disease (early/mild, middle/moderate Hoehn and Yahr stages), stroke, brain injury.

Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) for Total Knee Replacement

Jan 22, 2013/Test & Measure

Measures pain, stiffness and physical fitness.

American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Clinical Practice Guideline: Developing a Diabetes Mellitus Comprehensive Care Plan-2022 Update

Aug 10, 2022/CPG

Provides recommendations for developing a comprehensive plan of care for a patient with diabetes, including managing comorbid conditions such as obesity, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.

A Deepening Footprint

Dec 1, 2018/Feature

Across the country, PTs are stepping into primary care roles. The journey to wider integration is under way, but obstacles remain.

An Unwise Move

Feb 1, 2017/Column

A student finds that a simple favor wasn't simple after all.

You Can Be a Military PT

Nov 10, 2020/Podcast

Major Eric Walter, PT, DPT talks about how he decided to become a PT in the military, and why serving as a military PT is different than in the civilian world.

Value-Based Care: Qualifying Participant Threshold Under an Advanced APM #17

Jan 26, 2018/Podcast

This is episode 17 of APTA’s comprehensive podcast series that explains the move toward value-based care and how physical therapists can participate in the Quality Payment Program. This episode is “The Qualifying Participant Threshold Under an Advanced APM.”

Supervision of Physical Therapist Assistants Under Medicare

Dec 17, 2024/Article

Understand the basics behind supervision of PTAs under Medicare.