Welcome to the Patient Action Center

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and your physical therapist (PT) are active in lobbying Congress to make sure that your services remain covered under programs like Medicare. It is important for patients to also let their voices be heard!

Medicare Therapy Cap

Act NOW! Take action to ensure that the therapy cap exceptions process is extended!

Due to lack of congressional action, physical therapy services are currently under a $1860 Medicare Therapy Cap.  The therapy caps are in effect without the exceptions process beginning on January 1, 2010. The U.S. House health care reform bill (H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act) contains a 2-yr extension of the exceptions process for 2010 and 2011 and the U.S. Senate health care reform bill (H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) contains a 1 year extension of the exceptions process. APTA supports the House's 2 year extension in health care reform and will continue to lobby the parties involved in the negotiations for this provision. In addition, APTA will seek a permanent repeal to the therapy cap as part of any permanent policy change to the physician fee schedule update. The therapy caps represent a beneficiary cut in benefits and must be addressed both in health care reform and in efforts to permanently reform flawed Medicare policies separate from health care reform.

Health Care Reform

What You Can Do in Health Care Reform
Get involved! Send a personalized message to President Obama and your representatives in Congress!

What APTA is Doing in Health Care Reform
APTA is working with Congress to assure that the physical therapy profession has what it needs to provide the best possible care to its patients. See more about what APTA is doing at www.apta.org/healthcarereform.

Other issues affecting your treatment by a physical therapist: