American Journal of Managed Care
Payers: Embrace the Value of Physical Therapy to Reduce Costs
As our country continues its push to lower the cost of healthcare, especially among the burgeoning population of seniors with age-related disabilities, transitioning to a value-based insurance design (VBID) payment…
Kaiser Health News
Letters to the Editor: Preventing Falls For A New Generation
Your piece “More Seniors Are Dying In Falls. Doctors Could Do More To Reduce The Risk” (June 27) addresses an important yet rarely discussed epidemic that has become increasingly deadly…
Delaware Online
Cut red tape for physical therapists
Patients across Delaware depend upon physical therapy to regain independence and strength following an injury or improve quality of life when managing chronic pain. As a physical therapist, I’ve dedicated…
Denton Record-Chronicle
Colby Pigg: It’s time to truly put patients over paperwork
In October 2017, the Trump administration announced the “Patients over Paperwork” initiative — a plan that aimed, in its own words, to “reduce regulatory burdens on health care providers to…
The Hill
Congress: Expand access to physical therapy for underserved communities
As we have watched the opioid epidemic spread across the United States, we’ve arguably seen small-town Americans hit the hardest. Drug overdose fatalities are at an all-time high and have increased with alarming frequency…
Martinsville Bulletin
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Physical therapists needed
We are in the middle of a national shortage of physical therapists. Estimates show that by 2025, an additional 27,000 physical therapists will be needed to meet the growing demand….
Morning Consult
How Telehealth-Based Physical Therapy Can Save Lives and Money
American seniors are facing an epidemic. It’s an epidemic that strips away their ability to live and function independently, presenting staggering costs to Medicare and America’s broader health care system….
Physical Therapy Products
House of Reps Takes On Physical Therapist Shortage
The Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation (APTQI) commends the introduction of the Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act (H.R. 2802), a bill aimed at addressing the shortage…
Fierce Healthcare
Industry Voices—Where is PT in the national debate over pain management and opioids?
Addressing the opioid epidemic has become the defining health challenge of our time. With tens of thousands of Americans dying every year from substance use disorder, the tragic consequences of this…
Des Moines Register
Expand the opioid debate to include safe, drug-free therapies
Over the past three decades, the question of how to treat chronic and acute pain has been met with a singular and almost monopolistic answer: opioids. After the Food and…