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New legislation adds PTs to NHSC Loan Repayment Program
The Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act (S.970/H.R.2802) was recently updated and reintroduced. This bipartisan legislation seeks to add physical therapists to the list of providers eligible to participate in the National Health Service…
Impact of the election on therapy issues
More than 47% of the eligible voting population voted in this year’s midterm election, a 52-year high! As a result, the Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate and the Democrats regained control of the…
PTPN comments to CMS on physician referral, FLR, PTAs, MIPS
In August, PTPN submitted comments to CMS on a variety of topics important to therapists. Here are the highlights. MEDICARE FEE SCHEDULE PROPOSALS PTPN applauded CMS for proposing to repeal Functional Limitation Reporting! Capturing…
Congress repeals therapy cap!
On February 9, 2018 Congress passed, and the President signed, a spending bill to keep the government operating for two years. Included in the bill was a permanent repeal of the Medicare therapy caps on…
CMS scales back bundled payment programs
On November 30, 2017 CMS cancelled both the mandatory hip/femur fracture (aka SHFFT) and cardiac bundled payment models which were pending for 2018. In addition, CMS scaled back the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR)…