Highlights from CSM 2016

CSM 2016 was APTA's largest ever, with more than 11,000 attendees, speakers, and guests. If you were there, here's a recap. If you weren't, here's a sampling of what you missed.

Opening Ceremony Attendees Urged to Facilitate Delivery of High-Quality Services

American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS) opening ceremony speaker Donald D. Straube, PT, PhD, NCS, declared, "As a certified clinical specialist, you have a critical role to play in the facilitation of high-quality physical therapy services in the context of a dynamic health care environment." Straube is immediate past chair of ABPTS.

He observed that "we are currently experiencing an unprecedented amount of change in our professions," citing enactment of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014. These and other laws and regulations are rapidly introducing the concept of value into the health care equation, he noted.

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