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Students' Privacy Rights: Where HIPAA and FERPA Intersect

Sep 1, 2020/Column

Familiarize yourself with these protections - and know your ethical responsibilities.

Proposed Fee Schedule Rule Wrestles With PTA, OTA Services Delivered 'In Part'; Includes Changes to MIPS

Jul 30, 2019/News

Despite serious questions and criticisms from APTA, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), and other stakeholders, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to move ahead with its plans to require providers to navigate a complex system intended to identify when therapy

In Praise of Low-Tech Tools

Aug 1, 2019/Feature

In an increasingly technological age, mainstay items of physical therapy such as exercise balls, foam rollers, and elastic resistance bands retain their therapeutic value-and will continue to do so, these PTs say.

New Technology: Keeping It Ethical, Keeping It Legal

Nov 1, 2019/Feature

Advances in health care technology raise legal and ethical issues. Here are some situations you soon may encounter, if you haven't already. How should you respond?

APTA Websites and Forums Terms and Conditions

The following Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and all other stated rules govern the use by you of APTA's websites.

Short-Handed: Workforce Projections Predict Profession Shortages

Jun 1, 2025/Feature

A new APTA report outlines forecasts of a supply shortage of physical therapists through 2037.

Beyond Borders: US Physical Therapists Working Overseas

Jul 1, 2025/Feature

How U.S.-trained PTs are helping to transform global health and the role of physical therapy therein.

Shockwave Therapy in Physical Therapy: The Sound of Healing

Dec 1, 2025/Article

Exploring the benefits, evidence, and potential drawbacks of using shockwave therapy to support patient recovery.

Position Paper: The Promoting Integrity In Medicare Act

Mar 1, 2020/Position Paper

H.R. 2143 removes the health care services most susceptible to overutilization and and misaligned incentives from this exception.

COVID-19 Events

Access recordings from live webinars and Facebook Live events hosted by APTA on topics related to Coronavirus (COVID-19) impacting health care, practice, and your patients. Additional recordings will be posted here as they become available.