So many great resources and fact sheets!

Handout updated on my website. This is one I've found helpful for patients.

Nice conversation here about chronic pain and pelvic pain 👍👍

APTA is extremely disappointed that the physician fee schedule final rule will cut physical therapist payment in 2021, with no rationale or response from CMS to thousands of letters opposing the cuts. These cuts are a dire threat to patient access and safe alternatives to pain.

.Administrator Seema Verma CMSGov The 8% cuts to PTs in the face of mounting evidence for our roles in healthy aging, fall prevention, and stark reduction in opioid exposure and overall costs is inexplicable and irresponsible. Our US citizens & publicly supported health system deserves better.

i am yielding to the scientists. #hcldr

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This is great. Familiarize yourself with these 4 simulations. Press and watch. There is only one implication: extreme social distancing or an overwhelmed health care system. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…

Watch this and #retweet. #SocialDistancing #COVIDー19

Social distancing is an effective public health tool for preventing the spread of disease, but it's still important to connect with friends & loved ones. Try video chats or just give them a call. Remember to keep 6 feet between you & others if you do need to go out in public.

Yes!! #SocialDistancing does not have to mean that you are miserable! Get outside and exercise!! (At least 6 ft away from anyone else😊)

Hey Administrator Seema Verma CMSGov I know you're busy today, so I wanna help... ALLOW payment for Physio/physical therapy #telehealth TODAY!!! we will help keep people OUT OF THE HOSPITALS happy Tuesday

** I WILL AGAIN OFFER ANYONE MY TIME** TO chat about the now and tomorrow of your physio/healthcare biz!! Lets help you get some clarity around the work to come out of this WISER and STRONGER! cheers (Zero obligations!). Let's chat And continent don't matter!!!

State of California mandates all health plans shall, effective immediately, pay for telehealth at the same rate, whether a service is provided in-person or through telehealth. APTA Private Practice @HPAAPTA WebPT @APTAtweets dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/Docs…

I wrote about the new coronavirus itself--where it came from, why it's behaving in the way it's behaving, how it infects and kills, and what the summer might bring. It's early days, of course, but this serves as a rough preliminary portrait of SARS-CoV-2. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Karen Litzy, PT, DPT Jason Erickson Diane Jacobs Greg Lehman My outpatient clinics have been converted to Acute / Urgent Injury clinics that are designed to offload our hospital’s ED and Primary Care clinics. We have Ortho on call and are supporting the ED and medicine teams by keeping injuries out of the queue.

Informative for testing, immunity, and the impact on the economy

#cuttheredtape

#EmergencyPT #COVID webinar series encore: Weds, March 25, 8pm CST: Feature Megan Mitchell, PT, DPT, FEMA HERT team lead & Ty Collier, PT, DPT, MBA, emergency mgmt Operations Chief, Prisma Health hospital in Columbia, SC. Free. Registration to follow.

CMS should use its 1135 waiver authority to meet the medically necessary needs of Medicare beneficiaries by immediately expanding Medicare coverage of telehealth services to include audiology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology.