The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule has faced repeated annual cuts and lacks an automatic inflationary update. As a result, Medicare payments have not kept pace with the rising costs of running a medical practice. This, combined with historic inflation, is putting serious...

Telehealth is a vital tool that many Medicare beneficiaries use to access critical physical therapy care.  Recognizing the importance of telehealth to millions of patients, in March of this year, Congress approved legislation that extended Medicare’s telehealth...

The Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act (H.R. 1517) 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 providers...