American Physical Therapy Association of Delaware
APTA Delaware hosted its first in-person membership meeting since before the Covid pandemic. The membership meeting, held on Saturday, October 28 at the University of Delaware STAR campus focused on several key agenda items including revisions to the existing organizational bylaws. Following are the meeting’s proceedings:
APTA Delaware president, Steve Rapposelli opened the meeting began with a warm welcome to … Read full post
Dear Membership – please note Highmark is transitioning from Tivity / Wholehealth to Helion for their Utilization Management. They report the transition will take place in December 2023. They have yet to announce the exact date. Please see the 3 PDF’s to help better understand the transition.
Earlier this year, the APTA Delaware convened a task force to review and update APTA Delaware bylaws. The following are recommendations, approved by the current Executive Committee, from the task force. In accordance with the existing bylaws, voting members have thirty days prior to a vote to review the bylaws.
Special thanks to the members of the APTA Delaware Bylaws … Read full post
Congratulations go out to APTA Delaware Member, Mary Lou Galantino on receiving Fulbright Specialist Scholarship to Wits University in South Africa.
Thank you to APTA Oncology for bringing this to our attention!… Read full post
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Happy Spring to you!
As I write this, I am looking at my daffodils blooming, and the sun is out! It will be 62 degrees today, but since it is Delaware, it may snow in 2 days!
APTA DE has been busy since I last wrote to you, so here are some updates:
On Tuesday, March 28th, APTA San Diego, CA – Please join us in congratulating Mary Lou Galantino, PT, PhD, FAPTA, on receiving the APTA Oncology Research Award for her contribution to the science of physical therapy in oncology.
Additional information on APTA Oncology awards, can be found here – https://oncologypt.org/shortcuts/member-awards/.
Cigna recently announced 2 new policies that included a 4 unit per visit limitation and a 15% payment differential cut for services provided by an OTA or PTA effective October 15th with TX, KY, CO, and OH starting on November 1st.
APTA and AOTA met with Cigna to highlight the adverse impacts of the proposed differential policy … Read full post
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