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May 5, 2021/Article
As with other documentation of PT services, you must show the need for the care you provide and equipment you recommend.
Jul 9, 2021/Review
Post-COVID-19 patients referred to rehab report poorer overall health and greater functional limitations at baseline.
Jul 27, 2021/Roundup
APTA "leading the way," COVID-19 effects in children, long-term changes in heart rate post-infection, and more.
Jan 19, 2014/Clinical Summary
PTs help people with DBMD improve their quality of life.
Aug 31, 2017/Test & Measure
Measures the influence of visual, vestibular, and somatosensory input on standing balance.
Dec 20, 2015/Test & Measure
Evaluates the integrity of blood supply to the brain.
May 25, 2017/Clinical Summary
PTs can help children and adults with spina bifida gain and maintain mobility and function at their best throughout all stages of life.
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Physical therapists are licensed doctors who work with multiple patient populations impacted by disease, injury, and movement dysfunction. Read more.
A major factor influencing payment for physical therapist services is how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services values and reimburses Current Procedural Terminology, or CPT, codes. CMS uses Relative Value Units, or RVUs, within the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, or RBRVS, payment system
