The Central District is currently seeking a secretary to serve on its Board. Primary responsibilities include attending the periodic Board meetings and taking the minutes (notes) at the meetings. No prior experience needed! This is a great opportunity to enhance your resume and give back to the association! If you are interested in this position, please email vpta@apta.org.

Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2018

Site: PIVOT Physical Therapy; 751 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News

Speaker: Brian Edmunds, PT, DPT, NCS 

Topic: Vestibular Therapy with Considerations for Post-Concussion Rehab

The Northern District holds monthly meetings, networking events, and participates in charity events, between September and May. Meetings consist of social networking time, a business meeting to update members on Virginia Physical Therapy news, and an educational presentation. They are held at clinics in the Northern District. Meeting notifications are sent out to Northern members' APTA-listed emails.

Download the Spring Conference brochure Here.

The VPTA is happy to introduce our members to a great new benefit called CEU Locker.

CEU Locker provides an easy and convenient method for tracking your CEU requirements in our state, searching for approved courses that meet state requirements, and being assured that the courses you are taking provide quality content for our specialty.

VPTA will be providing the easy-to-recognize official seal for all approved courses. As a CEU Holder, you only need to look for this seal when searching for your courses to be assured that they have been vetted and approved and that they meet state requirements. After you have completed an approved course, simply type the CEU Locker number into your online dashboard; the course information instantly will be archived for safekeeping.

As an additional benefit to your practice, our website will begin featuring a robust, searchable listing of approved courses that meet state requirements.

Find all this here.

Usage of the CEU Locker service is an exclusive benefit of your VPTA membership. Thank you for being a member, and please let us know how much you like using CEU Locker!

We have great news! Effective December 18, 2017, Humana no longer requires preauthorization for outpatient physical, speech and occupational therapy services for patients with commercial and Medicare Advantage (MA) coverage. For additional details, visit Humana.com.

By now, most physical therapists (PTs) have heard the news: The final 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) released in early November by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included some significant variations from the PFS proposed in July. Instead of finalizing CPT code values that were the same as—and occasionally larger than—current values, CMS opted to offer up a more complicated combination of cuts and increases that could affect PTs in different ways, depending on their case-mix and billing patterns.

So Here are APTA's top 4 suggestions.

CMS has published the proposed physician fee schedule for 2018, and the news is good!

Out of approximately 19 CPT codes used frequently by physical therapists, the Relative Value Unit (RVU) will remain the same. The remaining 6 codes will undergo an increase relative to the RVU established for the 2017 fee schedule.

While it is important to remember that this is an initial proposal and not final for 2018, it is a very good sign for physical therapists using these codes who have witnessed more fee schedule decreases than increases in recent years.

It is also important to recognize that this type of positive change does not happen by luck nor does it occur without input from primary stakeholders. The APTA has worked tirelessly with the Health Care Professional Advisory Committee to the American Medical Association over the past year to assure that the care provided by physical therapists is not undervalued.

You can find more information about the proposed rule HERE.