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CMS: Minimal Changes to MIPS, Advanced Alternative Payment Models for 2021

Aug 7, 2020/Review

The Quality Payment Program would see mostly minor changes and some shifts to respond to COVID-19-related challenges.

Prior Authorization Win: CMS Finalizes Tighter Payer Rules

Jan 24, 2024/Review

The APTA-backed changes put needed guardrails on prior authorization processes.

New CMS Nursing Home Recommendations Stress Collaboration, Consistent Staffing Assignment

Apr 3, 2020/News

The new recommendations underscore existing CDC and CMS guidance and call for extensive use of masks and other PPE.

Aetna Drops Prior Authorization in Five States

Feb 15, 2023/News

The decision offers PTs the opportunity to show how reduced administrative burden can be good for everyone (payers included).

Three-Dimensional Instrumented Gait Analysis for Children With Cerebral Palsy: An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG+)

Apr 1, 2024/CPG

Best practice statements provide guidance for clinicians about the preferred characteristics of 3-dimensional instrumented gait analysis laboratories, including instrumentation, staffing, and reporting practices.

Coronavirus Update: March 27, 2020

Mar 27, 2020/News

A Medicare payment increase, PT telehealth for UnitedHealthcare, APTA tracks telehealth payment changes, and more.

Updated APTA Clinical Summary on Stroke Features Latest Information for Practice

May 10, 2024/News

The three-part resource covers the fundamentals of evaluations, interventions, and more based on high-quality evidence.

JAMA Neurology: Telerehab Program Works as Well as Clinic-Based Program for Improved Arm Function Poststroke

Jul 5, 2019/Review

The findings lend further support to the ideas behind APTA's efforts to increase telehealth opportunities for PTs and their patients.

Coronavirus Update: May 24

May 24, 2022/Roundup

One million deaths, long COVID in older adults, boosters for children, health care worker burnout, and more.

Viewpoints

Jun 1, 2021/Column

View letters to the editor, online comments from readers, and responses to timely questions that APTA poses for member response.