American Physical Therapy Association of Delaware
// by John McInerney
The House of Delegates will meet September 11 and 12 in Washington, D.C., at the Omni Shoreham Hotel as part of APTA’s Centennial Gala Weekend.
The House of Delegates is an APTA policy-making body comprised of voting chapter delegates, non-voting delegates (the Board of Directors and section, assembly, and PTA Caucus delegates), and consultants.
Your Chapter delegates (Lynne, Sue … Read full post
// by John McInerney
Click here to register for APTA Delaware’s Ethics Course on Wednesday, July 28 @ 6:30 pm
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// by John McInerney
UHC is the first of the largest insurers to make the move advocated by APTA.
In a major win for the profession and patients, UnitedHealthcare has become the first of the country’s largest private health insurers to adopt a permanent telehealth policy that includes PTs. APTA has made educating insurers on the value of permanently covering PT- and PTA-delivered telehealth … Read full post
// by John McInerney
The following message contains information regarding second doses; please read all information carefully.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has partnered with DPH to hold drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination sites for six days beginning Saturday, February 20, 2021.
These second-dose appointments will only be available for those who received a first dose from the Division of Public Health at one … Read full post
// by John McInerney
State of Delaware announces plans to administer second doses
WILMINGTON, Del. – Governor John Carney, the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH), and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) on Tuesday announced updates to the State of Delaware’s COVID-19 vaccination program, with a focus on administering second doses for Delawareans who received first doses at state-operated vaccination events in January: … Read full post
// by John McInerney
// by John McInerney
1) Effective January 1, 2021 there is a new fee schedule. You can find it on Navinet. While the reimbursement for each code has changed (and in most cases dropped), the daily cap has not. Reimbursement for evaluations has dropped significantly. We encourage you to reach out to your provider representative and share your disappointment and then encourage them to … Read full post
// by Stacie Larkin
The change, pushed for by APTA, will allow PTs to use many commonly paired codes for services delivered in the same day.
After an on-again, off-again approach to rules affecting the billing of code pairs that represent common, appropriate physical therapy practice, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced it will accept many of the pairs it
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