From office at ptidaho.org Thu Aug 16 11:56:19 2007 From: office at ptidaho.org (office at ptidaho.org) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:56:19 -0600 Subject: [List] IPTA Annual Meeting and Continuing Ed. Sept. 15/16 Message-ID: <20070816115619.egtc6qjlvwo8occ4@webmail.boisecomputerservice.net> Brochures about IPTA's Annual Meeting/Elections/Award Banquet and continuing education have been mailed and you should have received a copy. Full info is also available at www.ptidaho.org. You can sign up at a secure site by taking the link to sporg.com or going directly to sporg, event #90403. Adriaan Louw is returning with a two day course on Differential Diagnosis of the Lower Quadrant. Dr. Christopher Owens of ISU is presenting a one-day course on An Overview of Drug Therapy for PTs. Dates: Sept. 15/16, 2007 at ISU, Pocatello. Jill Cooper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20070816/1c8d7ec3/attachment.html From office at ptidaho.org Tue Aug 21 09:34:34 2007 From: office at ptidaho.org (office at ptidaho.org) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:34:34 -0600 Subject: [List] Loophole - Referral for Profit Message-ID: <20070821093434.gwiagfcw00swwow8@webmail.boisecomputerservice.net> PTs and PTAs have an opportunity to convince the federal government to close the loophole in the Stark physician self-referral law and protect PT services as Congress originally intended. APTA urges all PTs and PTAs to submit comments to CMS and call on CMS to remove physical therapy from the "in-office ancillary services" exception to the federal physician self-referral laws. Time is short - you must act now, before the August 31 deadline for comments! In the proposed rule for the 2008 Medicare physician fee schedule, CMS expressed concern that the in-office ancillary services exception to the Stark law is being "misconstrued" and created "a thriving environment for fraud and abuse." The agency said it received "hundreds of letters from physical therapists" warning of this situation and now seeks comments on "whether certain services should not qualify for the exception." What can you do? Submit comments in writing to CMS immediately explaining why physical therapy services should not be allowed under the in-office ancillary services exception. Individualize your comments. Your personal experiences? will provide the most compelling information. Please fax a copy of your comments to APTA (703) 706-3246- but do not "cc:" PPS or APTA on your letter. You may also submit your comments electronically at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/eRulemaking/[1] . Click on the link "Submit electronic comments on CMS regulations with an open comment period." Links: ------ [1] http://www.cms.hhs.gov/eRulemaking/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20070821/4da9b230/attachment.html From office at ptidaho.org Thu Aug 23 12:50:06 2007 From: office at ptidaho.org (office at ptidaho.org) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:50:06 -0600 Subject: [List] CMS Seeks volunteers for demo. Message-ID: <20070823125006.utzn2loc9w08cksc@webmail.boisecomputerservice.net> IPTA NEWSLETTER AT WWW.PTIDAHO.ORG. The Aug. Idaho Insight is now online. A hard copy should be arriving in your mailbox next week. IPTA ANNUAL MEETING/CONTINUING EDUCATION. Choose from two great courses at IPTAAnnual Meeting Sept. 15/16 at ISU, Pocatello. Space is limited in Adriaan Louw's course. Also in Pocatello: annual business lunch, awards banquet, casino night and students' poster presentations.? Download a brochure at www.ptidaho.org. CMS SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR DEMONSTRATION Physical therapists and other health care professionals are being asked to volunteer for a 2008 demonstration project designed to generate recommendations for improving Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payment models (www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/press/release.asp?Counter=2406&intNumPerPage=10&checkDate=&checkKey=&srchType=1&numDays=3500&srchOpt=0&srchData=&srchOpt=0&srchData=&keywordType=All&chkNewsType=1%2C+2%2C+3%2C+4%2C+5&intPage=&showAll=&pYear=&year=&desc=&cboOrder=date). Eligible providers include acute-care hospitals and post-acute-care settings, such as long-term-care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient-rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs), and home-health agencies (HHAs). CMS plans to use the proposed Medicare Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) Instrument in the demonstration(www.cms.hhs.gov/PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRAL/itemdetail.asp?filterType=none&filterByDID=-99&sortByDID=2&sortOrder=descending&itemID=CMS1201543&intNumPerPage=10). The agency will collect data from providers in 10 parts of the country to recruit a sample that is representative of the spectrum of post-acute service providers. Providers interested in participating should contact Barbara Gage, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at the RTI research institute by emailing pat-comments at rti.org. Final selections will be made in fall 2007. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20070823/7363b677/attachment.html