Comments

• Thank you to the KPTA Board of Directors, the Legislative Committee, and all others who helped and/or contacted their legislators for their persistent work to make this happen!

  Posted by C Wisdom on 4/5/2013 1:08 PM

• And then there was was Illinois. Our politicians are too busy digging a deeper financial hole for the state, delaying a solution on the state's pension programs, and buddying up to the IL State Medical Society to relent to direct access for PT.

  Posted by Greg Given on 4/5/2013 3:53 PM

• I wish Kansas would regulate state wide massage licensing!

  Posted by Lance Rupert -> ANX`>O on 4/5/2013 5:55 PM

• I take every opportunity to discuss importance of direct access to physical therapy services, with my PT coworkers. I have seen and experienced it working well for the benefit of general population while working in India, prior to migrating to U.S. I strongly advocate direct access to P T services and also Prefix of Dr. for Physical Therapist's name.Congratulations to my PT friends in Kansas state. Sanjay Patil, PT

  Posted by Sanjay Patil on 4/6/2013 12:16 AM

• Why would a PT seek a referral from someone else if a patient was not progressing as the Kansas statute requires? A why would anyone grant such permission to continue ineffective treatment. From the APTA press release: If the patient is not progressing toward such goals within 10 visits or 15 business days, treatment may continue after the physical therapist obtains a referral from a physician or other appropriate licensed health care practitioner.

  Posted by Ed Scott PT, DPT, OCS on 4/6/2013 2:52 AM