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Jun 17, 2025/Article
The Big Picture of Aetna’s Policy Change In response to ongoing advocacy efforts by APTA, Aetna has updated its physical therapy policy to provide unrestricted direct access to physical therapist services. Effective June 17, Aetna will no longer require a referral or signed plan of care for physical
Apr 30, 2025/News
The rule offers limited insight into the new administration's plans for MA policy.
Jun 1, 2023/Feature
Recent DPT grads carry an average of more than $80,000 in student debt. Even if you aren't one of them, here’s why you should care and what's being done to mitigate it.
Aug 4, 2025/News
Physical therapists continue to be at the table for important discussions around the development of CPT codes: APTA members Kathleen Picard, PT, DPT, and Stephanie L. Woelfel, PT, DPT, board-certified wound management clinical specialist, are serving as advisor and alternate advisor with the American
Mar 1, 2018/Magazine
PTs Must Demonstrate Their Value
Mar 8, 2021/News
Expanded CMS resources include more examples. APTA revised its guide and offers additional insight.
Aug 4, 2021/Test & Measure
This summary reviews a questionnaire to measure self-efficacy and contains information on use of it to screen patients or clients in a general clinical setting and reviews the use of this questionnaire with adolescents and adults in a general clinical setting without regard to a specific diagnosis or
Feb 1, 2015/Test & Measure
Measures self-selected or comfortable gait speed (m/s) over a short distance.
Sep 1, 2025/Advocacy Update
We sat down with an APTA health policy specialist to look inside the efforts that led to Aetna’s groundbreaking direct access policy change.
Jul 12, 2021/Test & Measure
The Harris Infant Neuromotor Test (HINT) is a screening tool designed to identify neuromotor or cognitive/behavioral concerns in infants who are healthy or at high risk between the ages of 3 and 12 months.
