Thank you @RepCindyAxne for your leadership to allow PTs to utilize #telehealth under Medicare. The ability to utilize telehealth during #COVID-19 has become of paramount importance to ensure the safety of patients and their physical therapy providers. #PTAdvocacy
Commercial Insurers Take the Telehealth Lead
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Thanks to @Aetna@uhc@Cigna for embracing face-to-face telehealth delivered by PTs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients are getting access to care they need without putting themselves or their PTs at risk
CMS should use its 1135 waiver authority to meet the medically necessary needs of Medicare beneficiaries by immediately expanding Medicare coverage of telehealth services to include audiology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology.
Breaking non-COVID-19 news:
DOD has published its final rule to add PTAs and OTAs as TRICARE authorized providers to engage in physical therapy or occupational therapy under the supervision of a TRICARE-authorized PT or OT. 1/
Medicare keeps cutting payment to physical therapy, even though demand is growing. Tell Congress that the squeeze on physical therapy payment must stop. https://t.co/QUIxJIVkn0 #FightTheCut
Our @Choose_PT message in Times Square is visible to more than 2.5 million people a week – giving us national reach in this tourist-filled destination. https://t.co/3bbl3GKgan
“One fix is for insurers to scrub the rules that make it cheaper for patients to continue failed pain treatments, surgeries, injections and medications. Instead, they should push for conservative care, such as physical therapy...”
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A friend snapped this pic of me helping Bud out to his car the other night. 1977 against the 49ers, 4th quarter, Bud walks by and says, rookie, get in there, 3 TD’s later and a 28-27 victory, the rest is history. Love this man.