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Utilization Management Toolkit Helps PTs Navigate Difficult Landscape

May 29, 2017/News

APTA's toolkit helps PTs and PTAs understand—and be successful in—the UM environment.

Cochrane Researchers 'Confident' in Pelvic Floor Muscle Therapy as Effective UI Treatment

Dec 12, 2018/Review

PFMT "could be included in first‐line conservative management programs" for women with UI, according to the authors of a recently updated Cochrane systematic review.

10-Meter Walk Test (10MWT) for Parkinson Disease (PD)

Apr 29, 2013/Test & Measure

10-Meter Walk Test (10MWT) (also known as "Gait Speed") for Parkinson Disease

Graded Symptom Checklist (GSC)

May 23, 2017/Test & Measure

Patients self rate the presence and severity of signs and symptoms such as blurred vision, dizziness, drowsiness, sleeping more than usual, easily distracted, fatigue, feeling “in a fog,” headache, and irritability.

When to Use Group Therapy Under the Patient-Driven Payment Model

Jan 1, 2020/Article

Hearing that some SNFs have incorrectly used this provision to mandate 25% group therapy, APTA has developed guidance.

2023 APTA House of Delegates Recap

Sep 6, 2023/Roundup

APTA's representative body took on issues ranging from PTA education to equitable pay.

2023 APTA Benchmark Report: Hiring Challenges Continue in Outpatient Physical Therapy Practices

Oct 11, 2023/Report

This report identifies three main hiring challenges.

New Bill Seeks To Increase Physical Therapy's Role at Community Health Centers

Sep 29, 2021/News

The bipartisan legislation would ease billing and other restrictions to boost patient access to care, especially in rural areas.

HHS Delays Startup of Relief Fund Reporting, Urges Registration Now

Jan 15, 2021/News

Recipients of $10k or more in relief funds were supposed to start reporting to HHS beginning Jan. 15. A new date hasn't been set.

Better Together

Oct 1, 2020/Column

The power of teamwork, dramatically illustrated.