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Coding Reform, to Payment Reform, to Health Care Reform

Apr 1, 2016/Feature

APTA is committed to the triple aim of health care. The association's proposed coding reforms are just one way-but an important one-of achieving it.

Life-Cycle Costing: A Valuable Tool for Big-Ticket Purchases

Aug 1, 2017/Feature

Life-cycle costing involves identifying all the costs associated with owning an asset. Here's how PTs can apply it to their practices.

Patient Specific Functional Scale (PSFS)

Oct 2, 2014/Test & Measure

Used to assess functional ability to complete specific activities.

When to Use Group Therapy Under the Patient-Driven Payment Model

Jan 1, 2020/Article

Hearing that some SNFs have incorrectly used this provision to mandate 25% group therapy, APTA has developed guidance.

Beginning Oct. 1: Stop Using This ICD-10 Code for LBP

Sep 29, 2021/News

In a continuing press for codes that are more specific, a single, general LBP code has been replaced with several.

Physical Therapy in Emergency Care: Research on the Value of Physical Therapy

Understanding the value of physical therapist services in emergency care.

Practicing Ethically In Today's Health Care Environment

Apr 1, 2018/Feature

This APTA Magazine article recaps results from an APTA member survey that explored the amount of time PTs spend engaging in coordination-of-care activities without receiving payment.

How to Develop an RFP

Aug 1, 2017/Feature

A request for proposal, or RFP, is a tool practices can use to make informed purchasing decisions.

Coming Out Made Me a Better PT. Your Journey, Whatever It Is, Can Do the Same

Jun 8, 2021/Open Access

We all go through transitions. It's what we do with those experiences that matters.

Defining Moment: What More Could I Wish For?

Jun 1, 2022/Podcast

A home visit to a patient with an intriguing background leads a PT back to the profession.