APTA Flash Action Strategy 2023: Send a letter to your representative to participate. You will be matched with your representative when you supply your address, and a pre-written letter is available for you to customize and send to your representative.Participation in Flash...

The Enabling More of the Physical and Occupational Workforce to Engage in Rehabilitation Act, or EMPOWER Act (H.R. 4878/S. 2459) recently introduced in the U.S. Congress is aimed at reducing administrative burden and improving patient access to outpatient therapy services...

The Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act (H.R. 4829) would include physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program and give Federally Qualified Health Centers, also known as community health centers or CHCs, options and...

Telehealth is a vital tool that many Medicare beneficiaries use to access critical physical therapy care. With the end of the public health emergency, Medicare patients may lose coverage of telehealth visits unless Congress acts. The Expanded Telehealth Access Act (H.R...

The Medicare Fee Schedule does not currently have a built-in annual inflationary update. Medicare reimbursement for providers billing under the fee schedule has failed to keep pace with the true cost of running a practice. Combined with record inflation, year-over-year...

The Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act (H.R. 1617/S.793) was introduced to allow physical therapists in all geographical regions to enter in locum tenens arrangements under Medicare.Locum tenens, meaning “to hold the place of or substitute,” allows eligible...