Good Health and SLU PT Faculty Joins the NEXT Annual Physical Therapy Conference & Exposition in Nashville. Elvonda

The APTA's NEXT Conference and Exposition, held this year in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, offered p...

Good Health and Do doctors of physical therapy need to call themselves 'Doctor'? . Elvonda

I wonder how the rest of the profession should view my physical therapist colleague who, having earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) ...

Good Health and What has the American Physical Therapy Association done for you lately?. Elvonda

Patient stories... Physical therapists hear these stories every day but the APTA is helping to put patient stories where they will do some ...

Good Health and Should Physical Therapists Abandon Direct Access? Vote 'No' on #APTArc20. Elvonda

A recent proposed motion in front of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) House of Delegates threatens to overturn 40 years of p...

Good Health and Medicare Opt-Out for Physical Therapists. Elvonda

Representative Vern Buchanan Washington D.C. Office 2104 Rayburn HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-5015 Fax: (202) 226-0828 Febr...

Good Health and Is there a physician shortage in America?. Elvonda

Uwe Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton and former keynote speaker at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Annual C...

Good Health and Is the Severity-Intensity Model a Roadmap for Fraud and Abuse?. Elvonda

First, I'd like to thank all the hard-working staff and volunteers at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) for the effort th...

Good Health and The Severity and Intensity Model for Physical Therapists. Elvonda

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Smith, but we can't continue your physical therapy - you've hit your Medicare Cap." "But I'm...

Good Health and Low Back Pain guidelines published by Orthopaedic Section of APTA. Elvonda

Just published are the Low Back Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and...

Good Health and South Dakota Passes Patient Protection Law Limiting Physical Therapy Copayments. Elvonda

From the American Physical Therapy Assoication (APTA) Press Release : Last week, South Dakota became the latest state to improve consumer pr...

Good Health and South Dakota Physical Therapy CoPay Legislation Becomes Law!. Elvonda

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed House Bill 1183 on February 27th, 2012 protecting physical therapists' patients with legisl...

Good Health and The Fight for Fair CoPays in PT in Motion. Elvonda

We've addressed physical therapist co-payments on this blog before: Florida CoPay in 2012 Kentucky CoPay in 2011 New York CoPay in 2012...

Good Health and New Electronic Health Records Toolkit available from the APTA. Elvonda

An Electronic Health Records (EHR) adoption toolkit is now available at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) website. Member lo...

Good Health and Why Outpatient Physical Therapy Will Survive and Thrive. Elvonda

This bears repeating... The following is a response to a comment thread on Peter Kovacek's PTManager.com . You need a username and pass...

Good Health and Fair CoPayment Web Page Now Online at APTA. Elvonda

The new American Physical Therapy Assocation (APTA)  Fair CoPayment web page went live on December 7th, 2011. Physical therapists advocatin...