The Importance of Therapy Assistants and the Dangers of Medicare Cuts: An Interview with PTA Alex Balan
Physical therapy can help patients rehabilitate and regain bodily function, manage pain, prevent injury, and improve mobility, flexibility, and balance – and physical therapy assistants play a key role in ensuring patients are able to receive this care. As ‘boots on the ground’ providers, PTAs delivery care under the direction and supervision of a physical…
Medicare Cuts to PTAs Severely Impact on Rural Areas
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed a 15% Medicare payment cut on the services provided by physical and occupational therapy assistants (PTAs and OTAs) in January, the physical therapy profession warned the impact of these cuts would be most severe in rural and underserved areas. In rural areas, where the workforce…
PTAs Tell Congress: Protect Our Patients and the Physical Therapy Profession
Under the direction and supervision of a physical therapist, physical and occupational therapy assistants (PTAs and OTAs) provide essential services to individuals in need of physical therapy services by helping patients rehabilitate and regain bodily function, manage pain, prevent injury, and improve mobility, flexibility, and balance. However, Medicare cuts are jeopardizing this critical piece of…
A Physical Therapy Assistant’s Perspective: The Role of PTAs and the Impact of Medicare Cuts
Physical therapist assistants (PTAs) play a critical role for individuals in need of physical therapy services by providing care under the direction and supervision of a physical therapist. PTAs are able to help ensure that individuals can receive the services they need to rehabilitate and regain bodily function, manage pain, prevent injury, and improve mobility,…
DEI is Critical for Empowering our Patients, Staff, and Communities
The APTQI Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Steering Committee assists the Board of Directors in creating and supporting initiatives that will empower APTQI’s member companies to promote diversity and equity in the workplace and inclusion in the communities in which they serve. In a new guest blog post, Nick Weber, MSPT, ATC, Chief Operating Officer of Team…
APTQI Continues to Grow, Reaches New Milestone
At APTQI, we represent an aligned group of therapists and practices who share a common vision for the future of our profession. Our goal is to establish physical and occupational therapy as clinically appropriate treatments of choice with the best value for patients and payers. Over the past few months, we have seen our membership…