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APTA CSM 2022 On-Demand is Under Way!
Access On Demand In March
If you registered for APTA CSM On Demand, or attended in San Antonio, you have unlimited access to on-demand content through the month of March. Use your APTA CSM Record ID (not your member number) to sign in to the platform. (The Record ID is found in your registration confirmation email, and is also printed on the badges of onsite attendees.) Additional info and FAQs are provided on the conference platform.
Not Registered? Deadline is March 11
An on-demand option will be available March 1-31, with more than 100 recorded educational sessions from the in-person event curated by conference program chairs from each section.
You must register for APTA CSM On-Demand by March 11. All registrations are final. (Registrants for the in-person conference in San Antonio get free access to the On-Demand content without CEUs.)
Choose between on-demand with CEUs or on-demand without CEUs. Given the state of the pandemic, effective Jan. 21 APTA has increased available on-demand CEUs to 1.8 (18 contact hours), up from the original 1.2 (12 contact hours). All content must be viewed and all CEUs must be earned in the March 1-31 virtual conference window.
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APTA, Lawmakers Press for Payment Relief by March 11 Deadline
Remember that old saying, "strike while the iron is hot"? Things are hot on Capitol Hill (and there's still time to act).
With a March 11 deadline looming for passage of legislation to keep the federal government running, APTA and other organizations are pressing lawmakers to include two major initiatives that could have a significant impact on payment for physical therapy: continuation of the pause placed on so-called sequestration cuts, and inclusion of a bill that would address the PTA payment differential system.
The most recent advocacy efforts come by way to two letters sent to Congress that spell out the need for relief — one on the sequester cuts signed by 50 professional and patient organizations, another on the PTA and occupational therapy assistant differential from six bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Though aimed at different topics, the letters share the common theme that now is not the time to squeeze providers and threaten patient access to care.
Both letters arrive on Capitol Hill just as lawmakers stare down a March 11 deadline to craft a spending package to keep the government running.
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Outpatient Therapy Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Calculator
APTA's outpatient therapy fee schedule spreadsheet helps you determine your payment for services under Medicare.
The APTA Medicare Physician Fee Schedule calculator incorporates the 50% multiple procedure payment reduction for values under the Medicare physician fee schedule and applies the overall 2% sequestration cut on Medicare payments as well as the Merit-based Incentive Payment System adjustment factor (beginning in 2021).
The calculator provides participating as well as nonparticipating provider fee calculations, and allows providers to compare the current year’s payment rate with the previous year’s payment rate.
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What is Long Covid? Current Understanding About Risks, Symptoms and Recovery
Washington Post | By Allyson Chiu
The condition known as long covid continues to frustrate its sufferers, baffle scientists and alarm people who are concerned about being infected by the coronavirus. The term, a widely used catchall phrase for persistent symptoms that can range from mild to debilitating and last for weeks, months or longer, is technically known as Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, or PASC. But scientists say much remains unknown about long covid, which is also referred to colloquially as “long-haul covid,” “long-term covid,” “post-covid conditions” and “post-covid syndrome,” among other names.
“This is a condition that we don’t even have an agreed upon name for yet, and we don’t have any understanding really of what’s going on down at a chemical level,” said Greg Vanichkachorn, medical director of Mayo Clinic’s COVID-19 Activity Rehabilitation Program. “So, until we have that kind of understanding, it’s really important that we not make quick decisions about what long covid can or can’t be.”
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CDC Peels Off Mask Recommendations for Most U.S. Counties
MedPage Today | By Molly Walker
After much speculation, CDC unveiled its new criteria on Friday [February 25, 2022] for masking throughout communities based on healthcare indicators, where only 30% of the country would currently be recommended to wear a mask.
These metrics are a combination of new hospital admissions, hospital bed utilization for COVID patients, as well as incidence of cases in a community, combined to indicate either a low risk (green), medium risk (yellow), or high risk (orange) of severe disease in a particular county.
By the most current CDC data, this means that only 28.2% of the population lives in a high-risk county, though 37.3% of U.S. counties would be classified as high-risk. About 40% of counties are classified as medium risk (containing 42% of the nation's population), while 23% are classified as low risk (29.5% of the population).
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