Your Career

Your Practice

Patient Care

Advocacy

APTA and You

I want to...

For Students
For Early-Career PTs and PTAs
For PTAs
For Educators

APTA

Join / Renew

Your Career
Your Practice
Patient Care
Advocacy
APTA and You

APTA

Join / Renew

Site navigation

Your Career
Your Practice
Patient Care
Advocacy
APTA and You
I want to...

For Students
For Early-Career PTs and PTAs
For PTAs
For Educators

By using this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. To find out more visit our privacy policy.

Search

Clear

Filter by Type

Activity

Advocacy Update

Analysis

Annual Report

APTA Live

APTA Social

Article

Awards

Column

Comment Letters

Course

Deadline

Event

Feature

Form

Handouts

Infographic

Interview

Issue Brief

Live Webinar

News

Open Access

Perspective

Podcast

Policies & Bylaws

Position Paper

Report

Report (Open Access)

Resource

Review

Roundup

Statement

Strategic Plan

Success Story

Summary

Template

Video

White Paper

Filter by Topics

Administrative Burden Advocacy

APTA History

Blood Flow Restriction Training

Career Advancement

Careers in Physical Therapy

Cash Practice

Collegiate Standards

Compliance

Continuing Competence

Coronavirus

COVID-19 (ChoosePT)

Digital Health Technology

Direct Access Advocacy

Direct Access in Practice

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Documentation

Dry Needling

Education and Workforce Advocacy

Emergency Department

Emergency Preparedness

Essential Health Benefits Advocacy

Ethics and Professionalism

Fair Physical Therapy Copays Advocacy

Financial Management

For Clinicians

Genetics

Health Information Technology Advocacy

Health Information Technology and Patient Privacy

Healthy Workforce Promotion

Home Health

Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospital Readmissions

Hospitals

IDEA & ESSA Advocacy

Imaging

Interventions

Licensure

Locum Tenens Advocacy

Medicaid Advocacy

Medicaid Payment

Medicare

Medicare Alternative Payment Models

Medicare Coding & Billing

Medicare Denials, Audits, and Appeals

Medicare Enrollment

Medicare Opt-Out Advocacy

Medicare Payment - Home Health

Medicare Payment - Hospital

Medicare Payment - Skilled Nursing Facility

Medicare Physician Self-Referral Advocacy

Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

Movement System

Nutrition

Outcomes Measurement

Pain Management

Patient Screenings

Patient-Driven Groupings Model

Patient-Driven Payment Model

Practice Models and Settings

Prevention and Wellness

Primary Care

Private Practice

Pro Bono

Productivity

PTA Differential

Public Health and Population Care

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Referral for Profit

Regenerative Rehabilitation

Robotics and Sensors

Safe Pain Management Advocacy

Safe Patient Handling and Movement

School-Based Physical Therapy

Scope of Practice

Skilled Nursing Facilities

Specialist Certification

Supervision and Teamwork

Supervision Under Medicare

Telehealth Advocacy

Telehealth in Practice

Term and Title Protection Advocacy

Travel Physical Therapy

VA & TRICARE

Value-Based Payment Models

Virtual Reality

Volunteer Opportunities

Workers' Compensation

Filter by Symptoms & Conditions

Filter by Year

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2006

2004

2003

APTA Search

Includes articles, courses, and CPGs. Unlimited access for APTA members.

APTA Working for You: Federal Advocacy Updates, October 2018

Oct 23, 2018/News

APTA helps its members by staying on top of changes and bringing the physical therapy profession's voice to the table on a wide range of payment and care-related issues.

Massive APTA-Supported Opioid Bill Ready for President's Signature

Oct 5, 2018/News

Expansive legislation aimed at battling the opioid crisis will soon become law, complete with provisions that echo APTA's recommendations.

Research Roundup Underscores 'Go4Life' Healthy Aging Message

Sep 24, 2018/Roundup

Go4Life is an ongoing effort to connect the public and health care providers with information and resources related to healthy aging.

Celebrate National Physical Therapy Month: Support #ChoosePT

Oct 3, 2018/News

October is National Physical Therapy Month (NPTM), an opportunity to amplify and promote the benefits of physical therapy, and to make more people aware of APTA’s #ChoosePT campaign.

What's New at MoveForwardPT.com, Fall 2018

Oct 5, 2018/News

APTA's consumer information website, MoveForwardPT.com, is a continually expanding resource where patients learn about the many conditions and patient populations PTs treat.

US House Members Echo APTA, Coalition Members' Call for Reduced Use of Prior Authorization by Medicare Advantage Plans

Oct 15, 2018/News

A bipartisan group of 103 legislators signed on to a request for investigations around the use of prior authorization in MA.

Jeanne Fischer, Pediatric Physical Therapy Pioneer and Distinguished Mentor, Dies at 94

Oct 3, 2018/News

One of the first school therapists in Washington State and a lifelong advocate for persons with disabilities.

Updated MedPAC 'Payment Basics' Series Provides Medicare Payment System Overview

Oct 15, 2018/News

Now available for free download: MedPAC's latest version of "Payment Basics," a series of informational sheets that describe the need-to-know elements of 20 different Medicare payment systems.

The 2019 Fee Schedule, Part 2: Quality Reporting Options Other Than MIPS

Jul 25, 2018/News

This installment looks at alternatives to participation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).

The 2019 Fee Schedule, Part 1: 5 Things You Need to Know About What MIPS Might Look Like for PTs Next Year

Jul 25, 2018/News

This installment: how the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) would play out for PTs and PTAs under the proposal.