March Newsletter

APTA CT Newsletter

March 2022

APTA CT President Message

Stefanie Bourassa, DPT, CSCS, FMSC and special guest, Tom

Action Alert

Support for H.R. 5536, the Stabilizing Medicare Access to Rehabilitation and Therapy Act, or SMART.

This bipartisan legislation would mitigate the impact of the impending 15% cut under Medicare Part B when services are provided by a physical therapist assistant.

Please stay up to date on this issue and it's impact on patients and the professions.

Follow and ADVOCATE on the APTA Action App or through this link: https://www.apta.org/advocacy/issues/pta-differential

Upcoming Events

Virtual Residency Panel

March 23, 2022

7 - 9pm

Panel on PT Management of Non-Ambulatory Duchenne MD

March 30, 2022

7 - 8:30pm

Considerations for Assessment and Return to Programming for the Overhead Fitness Athlete

March 26, 2022

12 - 2pm

Ranfone Training Systems, Hamden, CT

CSM Debrief

April 27, 2022

7 - 8pm

Re-cap of:

"Double Impact: Aging with a Progressive Neurological Disease"
"A Motor Control-Based Framework for Movement Analysis of Tasks Across Patient Populations"

LAMP Leadership 101

June 25 and 26

MCPHS, Worcester MA

Early Bird Rates end June 1

Save the Date

Join us for an afternoon at Dunkin Donuts Park for a Hartford Yard Goats vs Somerset Patriots

April 24

1pm

Bring your family, friends and colleagues.

Click on this graphic to be directed to a collaborative continuing education and SIG calendar with our surrounding states. Everyone invited.

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The APTA of CT DEI Committee is looking to establish a list of clinicians (both PTs and PTAs) who are interested in getting involved in DEI efforts across the state. Specifically, we are creating a high school outreach program aimed at increasing awareness and recruitment of under-represented groups to the field of PT and want to find PT/PTAs who would like to assist with this program.

If you have questions or are interested in these goals, contact Tom Kassan

Updates

A dozen organizations including APTA have joined together to press Congress to take action on the 15% payment cuts rolled out this year for services delivered by PTAs and occupational therapy assistants under Medicare.
APTA and our Fee Schedule Coalition partners continue to push Congress for large-scale reforms to the Medicare Fee Schedule and MIPS.
Do you provide services via telehealth? Get up to speed on anticipated changes to the codes you’ll use.

For more information and links to advocate - click here

On 3/9/2022, the U.S House passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package to fund the federal government through September 2022.
On the downside, the House-passed Consolidated Appropriations Act did not include language from the SMART Act, APTA-supported legislation aimed at mitigating the impact of the PTA/OTA differential.
The PREVENT Pandemics Act also includes language from the APTA-endorsed Improving Social Determinants of Health Act (S.104) which requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a program to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequities by coordinating activities across the CDC.

For more information and links to these - click here

The APTA Academy of Acute Care PT presented the First Annual Katherine Harris Educator Award at CSM 2022 to Dr. Laurie Neely from UCF and Dr. Kim Levenhager from St. Louis University.

This award is presented to an outstanding educator/ acute care clinician.

In November, Steve Tepper, PT, PhD, FAPTA gave the Katherine Harris Keynote Address at the 2021 Northeast Physical Therapy Conference. As a good friend of Dr. Harris', Steve shares our goal of endowing the Dr. Katherine Harris Professional Development Fund at Quinnipiac University.

Please read what Steve has to say about his friendship with Dr. Harris below and consider joining him in making a gift to Kathy's fund. Read More

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