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SCAPTA
If you or your company is interested in exhibiting during the 2018 SCAPTA Annual Conference to be held at The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, April 13-14, 2018, please review the variety of opportunities available as outlined on the Exhibitor Prospectus. Please complete the Registration Form and Special Sponsorship Form and submit to southcarolina@apta.org.
SCAPTA
The SCAPTA Research and Practice Committee looks forward to receiving poster presentation submissions for the 2018 SCAPTA Annual Conference, to be held April 13-14, 2018, at The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. Posters will be considered from all areas of practice such as orthopedics,pediatrics, and neurorehabilitation, and from any physical therapy related practice setting. Poster Presentations are reports in which information is summarized using brief written statements and graphic materials, such as photographs, charts, graphs, and/or diagrams. The dimensions of the printed poster should be 3ft x 4.5ft (HxW). Posters will be on display during Exhibit Hall hours. Speakers will be assigned a specific time when they must be at their posters to discuss them with conference attendees. The submission deadline is February 15, 2018. The Poster Application and application guidelines can be found at this link.
SCAPTA
The SCAPTA Nominating Committee is seeking qualified candidates willing to run for office to fill the following vacancies in the 2018 SCAPTA election: Vice President (2 year term) 3 directors (2 year term) Delegate (2 year term), and Nominating Committee member (3 year term). If you are interested in serving or want to nominate a SCAPTA member, please contact a member of the Nominating Committee:
Kristen Vick, chair, kristen.1587@gmail.com
David Morrisette, morrisdc@musc.edu
Logan Andrews, Logan.leigh0614@gmail.com
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SCAPTA
Our PT Advocacy Day in Columbia is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. Mark your calendars now and plan to attend this important event and opportunity to advocate for physical therapy in the statehouse.
SCAPTA
In less than a month, if Congress does nothing, a hard Medicare therapy cap returns on Medicare beneficiaries. In 1997, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act, which created an annual financial limit on physical therapy and speech-language pathology services, and a separate "cap" on occupational therapy, for all outpatient settings. Since 1997, Congress has acted 16 times to prevent implementation of the cap, including the 2006 creation of an exceptions process allowing patients to receive medically necessary services exceeding the annual cap amount. Historically, Congress has passed short-term extensions of the therapy cap exceptions process along with the sustainable growth rate (SGR) extension. In 2015 the therapy cap exceptions process received an extension through December 31, 2017.
Recently the Congressional Committees that handle healthcare agreed to a bipartisan, bicameral policy that would permanently repeal the hard cap on therapy services. This policy will protect patients, provide better care, and allow physical therapists to treat their patients at a higher level. If this is not passed, a hard cap on therapy services goes into effect on January 1, 2018. We need to get this across the finish line and must remind Congress of the importance of this issue. Without repealing the therapy cap, Medicare beneficiaries are at risk of not receiving the needed physical therapy services that our profession provides.
Ask your representative to follow through on repealing the hard Medicare Therapy Cap once and for all. Please also ask your patients to weigh-in on this by having them visit our Patient Action Center and send their own letters to their Members of Congress.
APTA has provided prewritten letters for APTA members on the Legislative Action Center and for nonmembers/patients on the Patient Action Center.
SCAPTA
The House passed H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that include the repeal of the current Student Loan Interest Deduction and would convert tuition assistance and waivers to taxable status. The Senate does not have either provision in their version of the bill. However, the tax legislation conference committee has started, and there is a likelihood that both can be included in a final bill through negotiation; your representative has been chosen as a member of this committee.
As passed by the House, Section 1204 would repeal the current Student Loan Interest Deduction (SLID). Under current law, any individual with income up to $80,000 (or $160,000 on a joint return) repaying student loans can deduct up to $2,500 in student loan interest paid. Eliminating this provision would mean that the cost of student loans for borrowers would increase at a time when affordable college education is increasingly becoming out of reach for many Americans.
In addition, the House legislation would also convert tuition assistance and waivers to taxable status; subsection D of U.S. Tax Code section 117 states tuition reductions and waivers for graduate teaching and research assistants are tax exempt. Elimination of tuition reductions and waivers for graduate teaching and research assistantships would have a negative effect on the physical therapy profession, especially for those who are considering pursuing post-professional graduate degrees.
Log in to the LEGISLATIVE ACTION CENTER and take action today!
PT in Motion
Could high-intensity treadmill exercise slow the progression of symptoms among individuals with Parkinson disease? Authors of a new study say that while more research needs to be done, their randomized clinical trial has proven the intervention to be safe, with indications that sufficiently vigorous treadmill work three times a week slowed severity at six months.
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SCAPTA
The Board of Physical Therapy has partnered with CE Broker and on 10/04/2017, went live with the new CE tracking system. CE Broker will be tracking continuing education for all Board licensees that require continuing education/competencies to maintain their licenses. This is a free service to all licensees, and they can claim their account by following the link below. The service provides licensees with simple CE management, course search, clear notification of changes in CE requirements, automatic reporting by providers, and more. *Upgraded accounts are available from CE Broker but are not required.
All licensees, who intend to renew their licenses (active or inactive), will be required to have an account set up with CE Broker and assure all their continuing education is reported before they will be able to renew from here forward. Please remember, all continuing education has to be completed within the renewal period, so 2018 renewal should have continuing education dated between 01/01/2017 and 12/31/2018. Licensees cannot renew until ALL continuing education is completed and reported.
As always, you can contact staff at the Board of Physical Therapy for answers to your questions concerning laws, policies and licensure requirements. However, if you have questions concerning setting up your CE Broker account or problems with your account, please contact CE Broker’s customer support directly.
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European Jounral of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
Exercise therapy is an effective component of fibromyalgia treatment. However, it is important to know the effects and specificities of the different types of exercise: muscle stretching and resistance training. The aim of this study was to verify and compare the effectiveness of muscle stretching exercise and resistance training for symptoms and quality of life in fibromyalgia patients.
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Medical University of Vienna via ScienceDaily
Personalized medicine or "precision medicine" is the most significant trend in 21st century medicine. "It's all about the right treatment for the right patient at the right time," says Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Head of MedUni Vienna's Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry. And looking into the eye — using digital techniques and analyzing Big Data — also provides an accurate picture of a person's general medical condition, facilitates early diagnosis and treatment and makes for transparent patients. The ART-2017 specialist conference is characterized by these digital developments in personalised medicine.
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HealthAffairs
The five largest U.S. commercial health insurance companies together enroll 125 million members, or 43 percent of the country’s insured population. Over the past decade these insurers have become increasingly dependent for growth and profitability on public programs, according to an analysis of corporate reports. In 2016 Medicare and Medicaid accounted for nearly 60 percent of the companies’ healthcare revenues and 20 percent of their comprehensive plan membership.
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WebPT
Whether you’re managing recent rehab therapist grads or seasoned professionals, their education is never done — nor should it be. After all, new developments in everything from evidence-based care and operational best practices to patient relationship building and referral generation are constantly coming to light. So, the very best way to ensure that your therapists are practicing at the top of their game is by providing them with access to the very best continuing education resources around.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Intense aerobic exercise in the early stage of Parkinson’s disease can at least temporarily avoid the worsening of motor symptoms commonly associated with the affliction, according to a study that involved Pittsburgh researchers and participants.
The findings published in JAMA Neurology suggest that new Parkinson’s patients can benefit from high-paced walking in the same way that they might from starting drugs to combat the disease.
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University of South Florida via Medical Xpress
A new device created at the University of South Florida — and including a cross-disciplinary team of experts from USF engineering, physical therapy and neurology — is showing early promise for helping correct the signature limp experienced by many stroke survivors. Called the Gait Enhancing Mobile Shoe, the shoe attachment is the result of multidisciplinary work and expertise in USF's engineering, physical therapy and neurology programs.
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MobiHealth News
Microsoft may have pulled the plug on Kinect, but research applications for the gaming peripheral continue to trickle out. The latest, from University of Missouri researchers, constitutes a pair of studies suggesting that the technology can be used to power a cheaper alternative to the standard motion analysis equipment used by physical therapists and clinicians.
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By Jason Poquette
 Mergers and acquisitions are the name of the game in healthcare these days. It feels like we are watching a giant game of medical Monopoly being played out before our very eyes. Just a few big players are rapidly rolling the dice and plucking up properties as they move their pieces around board. One of the latest deals is UnitedHealth buying up a physician group from Denver-based DaVita. But another big deal that recently hit the news makes that one look like play money.
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Physical Therapy Products
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act, which is legislation with a focus on standardizing post-acute care data, has passed in both the United States House and Senate. According to a news release from the American Physical Therapy Association, the IMPACT Act would instruct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to standardize patient assessment data, quality, and resource use measures for PAC providers. PAC providers include home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
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