June 16, 2016: In a step that it hopes will help educate home health agencies (HHAs) and prevent improper payment, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon require HHAs in 5 states to participate in a pre-claim ...
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June 15, 2016: After a sometimes-contentious struggle, individuals in Louisiana now have improved direct access to physical therapist (PT) services. Source: APTA Feed Improved Direct Access to PTs Now Law in Louisiana
Read MoreJune 15, 2016: PTJ looks at how to incorporate PTs into hospital transition-of-care processes. Source: APTA Feed From PTJ: PT Input Key to Reducing Hospital Readmissions
Read MoreJune 15, 2016: Local media coverage of physical therapy and APTA members, June 2016 edition. Source: APTA Feed The Good Stuff: Members and the Profession in Local News, June 2016
Read MoreJune 14, 2016: An effort to provide better service to the homeless population in Mobile, Alabama, has helped a university physical therapy department teach its students lessons in the value of community, the challenges of interprofessional collaboration, and the importance ...
Read MoreJune 14, 2016: These 2 aspects of performance—productivity and accountability—will continue to play off each other in the shift from fee-for-service-based payment to value-based payment in health care. The move toward value-based models, however, makes it a challenge for physical ...
Read MoreJune 14, 2016: Not long after they began their June 10 presentation on why outcomes measures are essential in physical therapist (PT) practice, NEXT conference presenters Heidi Janenga PT, DPT, ATC/L, and Troy Bage, PT, DPT, MBA, asked a packed ...
Read MoreJune 13, 2016: Nancy Sharby, PT, DPT, MS, remembers when, a few years ago, a fellow physical therapist (PT) questioned the profession’s movement toward taking a more active role in addressing the societal changes necessary to improve overall health and ...
Read MoreJune 13, 2016: At the NEXT conference Oxford Debate on June 10, a team of Star Wars stormtroopers overcame “Galileo” and his cohorts to defeat the resolution: “Technology will advance the physical therapy profession more than our hands and eyes ...
Read MoreJune 13, 2016: Increasing diversity in the boardroom and other groups results in better decisions. That was the take-home message from the NEXT 2016 session “Beyond Women in the Boardroom: Cognitive Diversity in Private Practice. Source: APTA Feed News From ...
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