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Aug 21, 2018/News
MedPAC is dead wrong when it says that increases to E/M payment should be paid for by cuts to physical therapy-related payment.
Aug 20, 2018/Roundup
CMS spent its spring and summer issuing proposed and final rules, some of which contain major shifts in payment and reporting.
Aug 13, 2018/News
HHS adopted a final rule on short-term plans, allowing the policies to provide 1 year of coverage, renewable for up to 3 years.
Aug 10, 2018/News
The Center on Health Services Training and Research (CoHSTAR) has opened its latest call for a full-time postdoctoral fellow—this time for a project related to postacute stroke services.
Aug 1, 2018/News
Issues that directly affect PTs, PTAs, and society as a whole—population health, the opioid crisis, innovative delivery models, and much more—will be front and center at the 2018 APTA State Policy and Payment Forum.
The final 2019 rules for SNFs and IRFs are substantially similar to what CMS proposed in the spring, but that's not to say PTs should assume it's a "same rule, different year" situation.
As the payment landscape for 2019 comes into focus, it's becoming clear that PTs will continue coding evaluations according to a 3-tiered system based on patient complexity.
Jul 25, 2018/News
This installment looks at alternatives to participation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
This installment: how the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) would play out for PTs and PTAs under the proposal.
Now available to APTA members: customizable template letters that help make the case for payment. The letters target 3 types of denials.
