Hyatt is Honoring Healthcare Heroes

Healthcare workers across the country are selflessly and tirelessly caring for their communities every day in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a token of appreciation Hyatt Place Keystone is extending their Friends & Family Rate to you and your Family. Book January 1September 12, 2021. 

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Parent Child Relationships: The Key to Facilitating a Joyful and Sensitive Environment to Foster Development

This course is sponsored by the APTA Colorado Pediatric SIG. The course will cover theoretical and clinical evidence on the importance of attending to the parent-child relationship during pediatric physical therapy practice. We will explore the intertwined relationships between motor and social emotional development, provide evidence for the role of the parent-child relationship from birth to three on children’s development, and highlight the implications of childhood disability on the parent-child relationship. We will then provide suggestions and practical applications of parent-child relationship focused intervention to enhance pediatric physical therapy practice, children’s global development, and family well-being.

When: Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
            6:00pm - 8:00pm MT

Where: Zoom Virtual Meeting

CE: This course is offering 1 point of Category I education.
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PT During and After Cancer Mini-Series: The PT's Role in Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue and Lymphedema in Patients with Head and Neck Cancers (Part 1)

Local Cancer Center physical therapist, Jeff Eagan, will discuss the role of exercise in managing cancer related fatigue and future research with CSU looking at the benefits of high intensity exercise and fatigue. He will also discuss the basics of oncology related lymphedema, and specifically lymphedema management in the head and neck cancer population. This event is sponsored by the APTA Colorado Northeast District.

When: Tuesday, January 26, 2021
            6:30pm - 7:45pm MT

Where: This event will be held via Zoom. 

CE: This event will count for .5 pt of Category II education. 

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 APTA CO - Vaccine Roll Out 12-24-20 Update

The first shipments of the Moderna vaccine have been received in Colorado. It is currently planned that all hospital staff will be vaccinated by early January, and long term care facilities will be completed in the same timeframe.

The CDC has changed some guidelines on the priority of vaccination and the state of Colorado is seeking to identify the specific impacts of this to the current rollout timeline. Currently, the focus of the State of Colorado/CDPHE is on employees of hospitals and long term care facilities.

At this point, it is unclear from week to week how much vaccine supply will be provided to the State of Colorado. As such, planning the vaccination schedules for more than one week out is difficult. Currently, the advance notification in place is approximately four days. It is expected that by mid-January there will be more advanced notification and detail of future supply. 

From the information available, it is not anticipated that another vaccine will be approved until at least February (Johnson, AstraZeneca, or others).

At this time in the State of Colorado, PTs, PTAs, and students are considered within the umbrella of Tier 1A and Tier 1B depending on setting and exposure risk.

For Phase 1B, it is the current understanding that some on-site vaccination will be completed employers health plan coverage. APTA CO recognizes the challenge inherent in verifying the order of vaccination under this scheme in terms of vaccination priority between Tiers. We also recognize that a primary issue is the unknowns within the current supply chain.

APTA CO will continue to provide updates as we receive or identify new information.

 

Win: CMS Will Lift Several Code Pairing Restrictions

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 had barred for use, or required to be accompanied a modifier if they were used on the same day. The changes, pressed for by APTA, are expected to reduce use of code modifiers that were creating confusion and sparking claim denials.

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