February 2011

Features

• Bright Ideas: PTs as Inventors

  Many physical therapists have invented products to fill an unmet need. They say that if they did it, you can do it, too.

• Bridging the New Grad/Employer Expectations Gap

  Are employers and new hires seeing aspects in each other that don't fit their expectations?

• Health Care Technology Today

  Here's a look at some advances and proposals in the field of health care technology.

Columns and Departments

• Compliance Matters: Medicare: New in Outpatient Therapy Services

  A look at payment and policy changes for 2011.

• Ethics in Practice: Reimbursement's Reach

  Pondering the interplay of clinical determinations and dollars.

• PTAs Today: Enhancing Performance

  Empowered to help athletes help themselves.

• This Is Why: For Reasons Real and Reel

  Inspired more by home than Hollywood.

• In Memoriam

  APTA remembers long-time members.

• PT Resource

  - Health Care Headlines
  - Research Roundup
  - The Funny Bone
  - Business Sense
  - Data Points

• Viewpoints

  PTs Should Advocate For Prevention Reimbursement