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Jul 30, 2019/News
Despite serious questions and criticisms from APTA, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), and other stakeholders, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to move ahead with its plans to require providers to navigate a complex system intended to identify when therapy
Aug 12, 2019/Review
A study of military health care adds to the evidence that including PTs as primary care providers is working, both in terms of patient safety and reduced health care utilization.
Jul 19, 2019/News
What constitutes a "typical" amount of improvement given comorbidities and other individual patient factors?
Aug 2, 2019/News
The CMS IRF final rule established a 2.5% payment increase in the 2020 fiscal year,
Aug 7, 2019/Review
Americans haven't really made a dent in improving physical activity rates, while increasing the amount of time spent on sedentary behavior.
Jul 31, 2019/News
The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is pushing for an outpatient environment in which payments vary less according to who owns a facility, hospitals get a supervision break, and patients have access to clear information on how much they're being charged for items and services. All
CMS' SNF final payment rule proceeds with implementation of the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM).
Aug 6, 2019/News
There's a place for virtual reality treadmills, robotic exoskeletons, and motion-capture sensors—just not in Eva Norman's car trunk. Eva Norman, PT, DPT, president of a mobile wellness practice in Minnesota, is one of the physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapy device industry professionals who
Jul 26, 2019/News
One way to achieve the physical therapy profession's goals of a healthier society is to help that society avoid sickness and injury to begin with. That's why physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) should consider taking part in an upcoming week focused on workplace safety
Mar 27, 2020/News
The $2 trillion stimulus package passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump is comprehensive in its scope.
