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The Good Stuff: Members and the Profession in the Media, February 2018

Feb 14, 2018/News

"The Good Stuff," is an occasional series that highlights recent, mostly local media coverage of physical therapy and APTA members, with an emphasis on good news and stories of how individual PTs and PTAs are transforming health care and society every day.

Spending on Health Care Projected to Increase 5.5% Annually Through 2026

Feb 20, 2018/News

Health care spending is projected to rise by 5.3% in 2018 and continue at about that growth rate through 2026, according to estimates from CMS.

CMS Issues Coding, Other Details on Supervised Exercise Therapy for Peripheral Artery Disease

Feb 13, 2018/News

CMS has released details on how it will process claims made as a result of its decision to cover supervised exercise therapy (SET) in the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD).

Pediatricians' Group Releases 'Choosing Wisely' List of Orthopedic Treatments to Question

Feb 27, 2018/News

The "Choosing Wisely" continues to expand—this time, into pediatric orthopedics.

New APTA Podcast Series Explores Big Picture and Details of Value-Based Care

Feb 13, 2018/News

Everyone's talking about "value-based care," but what does the concept really mean, and how will it affect your practice? That's the subject of a new 21-part podcast series now available for download from APTA.

CSM 2020 Coverage

May 1, 2020/Feature

February seems like a lifetime ago given today's circumstances, but that's when the largest physical therapy conference took over the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

NCCI Code Edits: Your Questions Answered

Jan 16, 2020/News

Background: A surprise coding change issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) caused an uproar in the physical therapy community earlier in January, and for good reason: The new requirements state that CMS won't reimburse for certain activity and evaluation codes if they're used

Small-Scale Study Finds Large-Scale Debt Among Recent DPT Grads

Dec 31, 2019/Review

A limited study finds high debt-to-income ratios among PTs -- higher than newly minted family medicine physicians and veterinarians.

Time to Act: Surprise Coding Complication Ignores Realities of PT Practice and Must be Changed

Jan 2, 2020/News

  NOTE: While comments to this story are welcome, if you want to add your voice to the advocacy effort, please follow the "what you can do" instructions in the last paragraph to contact the NCCI contractor directly. Thanks!    The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled an unwelcome

Public Awareness for Physical Therapy Is Ready to Rock Times Square

Dec 19, 2019/News

When more than a million people gather in Times Square to watch the ball drop and celebrate the beginning of 2020, APTA's ChoosePT message will be there with them. APTA has launched digital billboard advertising in Times Square that will run not only on New Year's Eve but through the end of March 2020.