From list at ptidaho.org Fri Apr 10 12:35:40 2009 From: list at ptidaho.org (PTIdaho.org List) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:35:40 -0600 Subject: [List] Items from APTA Message-ID: <20090410123540.vao9k8x39c48co04@webmail.ptidaho.org> From Jill Cooper, IPTA Executive Director Here are some items from APTA that may be of interest to you. TO REPLY TO THIS EMAIL PLEASE USE OFFICE at PTIDAHO.ORG. NEW RED FLAG RULES DEADLINE IS MAY 1 The Federal Trade Commission has indicated that physical therapists and other healthcare professionals providing services to patients without requiring them to pay in full at the time of service will need to comply with new "Red Flag Rules," requiring that they develop an Identity Theft Prevention Program by May 1, 2009. Medical identity theft occurs when someone uses another persons name or insurance information, without consent, to obtain medical services or goods, or to make false claims for services or goods. With the May 1 deadline looming, the American Medical Association has requested that the FTC suspend application of the red flag rules to physicians and other health care professionals. SPREAD THE WORD TO YOUR MEMBERS ABOUT PT 2009 Members can save $60 by registering early for PT 2009. This year's Annual Conference will offer many new topics and events aimed to refresh connections, energize thinking, and encourage the sharing of opinions for debate. Invite your members to attend the Oxford Debate, Coffee With the Stars, the newly formatted poster hall, and the exhibit hall. Attendees this year will hear from keynote speaker Newt Gingrich, author of Saving Lives & Saving Money: Transforming Healthcare in the 21st Century, and the 2009 Maley Lecturer Helene M Fearon, PT. WCPT Launches New Website The World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. WCPT President, Marilyn Moffat, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA, sums up the project's objectives by saying, "Our primary goal is for the WCPT website to be the primary international portal for information about the profession and WCPT. We want to provide visitors around the world with user-friendly, reliable, and timely information. We feel this has been achieved and packaged in a very attractive and eye-catching design." ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20090410/2fb70f01/attachment.html From list at ptidaho.org Wed Apr 15 10:19:36 2009 From: list at ptidaho.org (PTIdaho.org List) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:19:36 -0600 Subject: [List] please send your comments on healthcare reform to Senator Crapo Message-ID: <6E26C3EA574C4AABA6B43EFAD2313F14@THOWELL> Hi everyone, I am encouraging everyone to attend the forums on healthcare reform around the state that Senator Crapo is sponsoring and to discuss how physical therapy is an important part of reform. If you cannot attend, Senator Crapo is asking for comments. You can email comments to: healthcare_forums at crapo.senate.gov I have sent comments that discussed how physical therapy is a low cost alternative to surgery, how direct access to Medicare clients would save costs and how PT is a big part of preventative care. Senator Crapo sits on the Senate Finance Committee which will have a big role in discussion and passage of any reform bills. I feel that it is important that we keep open a discussion with him and let him know how important PT is in the push towards reform. Tom Howell, P.T., M.P.T. Howell Physical Therapy Eagle, ID thowell at fiberpipe.net This email and any files transmitted with it may contain PRIVILEGED or CONFIDENTIAL information and may be read or used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of the email or any of its attachments, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, printing or copying of this email or any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately purge it and all attachments and notify the sender by reply email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20090415/4088b235/attachment.html From list at ptidaho.org Fri Apr 17 09:48:41 2009 From: list at ptidaho.org (PTIdaho.org List) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:48:41 -0600 Subject: [List] Opportunity to be featured in a magazine Message-ID: <20090417094841.tohh5e8yoksck0ko@webmail.ptidaho.org> To reply to this email either contact the name at the bottom of the article, or office at ptidaho.org. Please do not use the "reply" button. Thanks. Jill Cooper, IPTA I just wanted to let you know that NEWS-Line is currently looking? > for PTs to feature in NEWS-Line for Physical Therapists & PT? > Assistants. If you or one of your colleagues would like to share? > your work and experiences with other PTs around the country, I'd? > love to hear from you. I even make it really easy for you to be? > featured - we do all of the work (well, most of it at least). > > If you are interested, feel free to contact me and I would be happy? > to mail you a packet of information explaining the feature process,? > and then walk you through, step by step, until publication. > > And if you know of someone else who might make an interesting? > subject, feel free to send me their contact info or forward them? > mine. 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URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20090417/b519fd1e/attachment.html From list at ptidaho.org Mon Apr 20 14:46:02 2009 From: list at ptidaho.org (PTIdaho.org List) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:46:02 -0600 Subject: [List] FW: [HPA] Senate Finance Committee-Health Care Reform Roundtables Message-ID: <30719922A52142BAA7500FF77B6D00F3@THOWELL> Hi everyone, The first hearing is tomorrow at 8am and is available at webcast through the Senate Finance Committee webpage: http://finance.senate.gov This is the committee on which our Senator from Idaho, Senator Mike Crapo sits on. Now that the hearings are started and the plan is to work on legislation in June, it is imperative to contact Senator Crapo and all our congressional representatives and let them know that physical therapy is a low cost, effective health care treatment and should be included in any discussions on health care reform. Let them know about direct access and IDEA, eliminating the therapy caps and any other issue regarding improving the delivery of PT. Thanks! Tom Howell, P.T., M.P.T. Howell Physical Therapy Eagle, ID thowell at fiberpipe.net This email and any files transmitted with it may contain PRIVILEGED or CONFIDENTIAL information and may be read or used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of the email or any of its attachments, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, printing or copying of this email or any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately purge it and all attachments and notify the sender by reply email. _____ From: hpa-list at yahoogroups.com [mailto:hpa-list at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill McGehee Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 9:27 AM To: hpa-list at yahoogroups.com Subject: [HPA] Senate Finance Committee-Health Care Reform Roundtables SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 04/14/2009 - 06:53PM Contact: Erin Shields (Baucus) Jill Gerber (Grassley) (202) 224-4515 BAUCUS, GRASSLEY ANNOUNCE DATES FOR ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS IN FINANCE SERIES ON HEALTH CARE REFORM Discussions to focus on health care delivery system reform, coverage, and financing Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today announced the schedule for the Finance Committee's series of roundtable discussions on health care reform. The roundtables, which will cover health care delivery system reform, coverage, and financing, will take place throughout April and May. The roundtable series is intended to facilitate discussion between Finance Committee Members and health care policy and industry experts, and to inform the development of a comprehensive health care reform bill, which the Finance leaders have said they intend to mark up in June. "These roundtables are designed to spark a dialogue on the health care solutions that Americans need now," said Baucus. "Working closely with my colleagues on the Finance Committee has been a priority throughout the health reform process. These roundtables are another opportunity for Members to bring their ideas on health care reform to the table and to hear from experts about those ideas as the health reform process moves forward." "There's a lot to fix and a lot to consider," Grassley said. "Congress should understand that every action to reform health care could have a reaction somewhere else. The experts can help us understand the complexities and challenges ahead." The roundtable series will be open to the public and webcast on the Finance Committee website, www.finance.senate.gov. The schedule announced today follows here. * April 21, 2009 - Reforming America's health care delivery system: this discussion will focus on improving the quality and efficiency of care through establishing value-based purchasing programs and strengthening the role of primary care, better managing patients with chronic illnesses, facilitating the use of comparative effectiveness research and other tools that support evidence-based care, reducing hospital readmissions, reforming payments to private plans in Medicare, and increasing transparency and reducing fraud and abuse in federally financed health care programs. * May 5, 2009 - Increasing access to health care coverage: this conversation will focus on potential policies to expand health care coverage to all Americans including proposals to strengthen the health care safety net, expand public health care programs, expand access to private health coverage by creating premium subsidies for low-income Americans and reform the individual and small group health insurance markets, create tax credits for small businesses to afford insurance, make it easier to shop for and find affordable coverage options, and focus on the prevention of disease and promotion of healthy lifestyles. * May 14, 2009 - Financing comprehensive health care reform: this discussion will focus on policies to finance the cost of investing in comprehensive health care reform. A list of participants for each roundtable will be released prior to the discussion date. The Finance leaders have also said they will hold closed-door policy "walk throughs" in the days following each roundtable discussion to provide Members with a further opportunity to discuss specific policy options. Bill McGehee __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Calendar More HPA resources are available from the "Files" and "Links" pages of the listserv website: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/hpa-list/ For more HPA information & Resources: http://www.aptahpa.org Yahoo! Groups Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity * 2 New Members Visit Your Group Give Back Yahoo! for Good Get inspired by a good cause. Y! 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Click on _About Us_ in the banner and scroll to _awards._ Because the dealine is near, if you wish to nominate someone send their name now to office at ptidaho.org and then complete the paper work by the end of May. Thank you. Jill Cooper, IPTA Executive Director -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20090420/429105dc/attachment.html From list at ptidaho.org Tue Apr 21 11:18:00 2009 From: list at ptidaho.org (PTIdaho.org List) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:18:00 -0600 Subject: [List] Senate Finance Committee Roundtable Discussions Message-ID: <2E1DDD06C08448CC811E781343191010@THOWELL> Hi everyone, After listening to the Senate Finance Committee Roundtable on Healthcare Reform this morning, it is clear that a push to improve primary care access may be a big part of reform. In my opinion, our profession must push that PT's are low cost primary care providers for many impairments and disabilities. We could play a large part in reform by pushing to Congress that we, as well as nurse practitioners, can provide the needed services within our scope of practice and immediately impact the ability to move towards a model of care that puts more emphasis on primary care involvement. We should partner with the nursing community to lobby for this and lobby hard for this. Second, there was a lot of talk on incentives for healthy behavior. PT's are in a very unique position, because of the large amount of time we spend with clients, to play a large role in this kind of incentives. Again we need to lobby this role to Congress and why we can play a big role in it. Thirdly is partnering with the American Hospital Association who is strongly for reducing and for making better Medicare regulation, to lobby with them for this issue that we agree with as well. Fourthly I agree with pretty much a consensus that CMS needs to be tweaked to allow more innovation, less regulation and faster implementation of demonstration projects and things learned by those demonstration projects. There certainly was a lot more information presented. I think my first two points are something that we need to be writing/emailing/calling our representatives in Congress about asap. Tom Howell, P.T., M.P.T. Howell Physical Therapy Eagel, ID thowell at fiberpipe.net This email and any files transmitted with it may contain PRIVILEGED or CONFIDENTIAL information and may be read or used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of the email or any of its attachments, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, printing or copying of this email or any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately purge it and all attachments and notify the sender by reply email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20090421/237ec864/attachment.html From list at ptidaho.org Tue Apr 21 15:20:36 2009 From: list at ptidaho.org (PTIdaho.org List) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:20:36 -0600 Subject: [List] Senate Finance Committee Roundtable Discussions In-Reply-To: <2E1DDD06C08448CC811E781343191010@THOWELL> References: <2E1DDD06C08448CC811E781343191010@THOWELL> Message-ID: <3df8fcde0904211420u15ace179uc1d7fd07397df54e@mail.gmail.com> I just emailed Senator Crapo my thoughts on this - thanks for the updates! Jacob Roberts, PT Eagle Rock Physical Therapy On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM, PTIdaho.org List wrote: > Hi everyone, > > After listening to the Senate Finance Committee Roundtable on Healthcare > Reform this morning, it is clear that a push to improve primary care access > may be a big part of reform.? In my opinion, our profession must push that > PT?s are low cost primary care providers for many impairments and > disabilities.? We could play a large part in reform by pushing to Congress > that we, as well as nurse practitioners, can provide the needed services > within our scope of practice and immediately impact the ability to move > towards a model of care that puts more emphasis on primary care > involvement.? We should partner with the nursing community to lobby for this > and lobby hard for this. > > > > Second, there was a lot of talk on incentives for healthy behavior.? PT?s > are in a very unique position, because of the large amount of time we spend > with clients, to play a large role in this kind of incentives.? Again we > need to lobby this role to Congress and why we can play a big role in it. > > > > Thirdly is partnering with the American Hospital Association who is strongly > for reducing and for making better Medicare regulation, to lobby with them > for this issue that we agree with as well. > > > > Fourthly I agree with pretty much a consensus that CMS needs to be tweaked > to allow more innovation, less regulation and faster implementation of > demonstration projects and things learned by those demonstration projects. > > > > There certainly was a lot more information presented.? I think my first two > points are something that we need to be writing/emailing/calling our > representatives in Congress about asap. > > > > > > Tom Howell, P.T., M.P.T. > > Howell Physical Therapy > > Eagel, ID > > thowell at fiberpipe.net > > > > > > This email and any files transmitted with it may contain PRIVILEGED or > CONFIDENTIAL information and may be read or used only by the intended > recipient.? If you are not the intended recipient of the email or any of its > attachments, please be advised that you have received this email in error > and that any use, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, printing or > copying of this email or any attached files is strictly prohibited.? If you > have received this email in error, please immediately purge it and all > attachments and notify the sender by reply email. > > > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List at ptidaho.org > http://lists.ptidaho.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > From list at ptidaho.org Fri Apr 24 14:26:13 2009 From: list at ptidaho.org (PTIdaho.org List) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:26:13 -0600 Subject: [List] opportunity for input on new web site for APTA Message-ID: <20090424142613.v3aiicxr4ks4o8ko@webmail.ptidaho.org> This email sent by to ListServ? by Jill Cooper, IPTA, office at ptidaho.org.? TO COMMENT PLEASE USE THE EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TEXT. APTA is in the beginning stages of revising the architecture of APTA's website.? As you can imagine it's a big project and we need your help.? We'd like to hear from members about how they would organize the site and to do this have created an easy web exercise. ? This is a terrific opportunity for all members -- PTs, PTAs, students, new professionals, seasoned practitioners -- to express their opinions. We plan to close this portion of the process on June 1.? For further information on the web exercise visit www.apta.org/cardsort.? You can also easily find this page using search words, "card sort." ? Thanks for your help. ? Lisa Lisa Ruane, CAE Sr Director, Member and Component Relations American Physical Therapy Association (703) 706-3231 lisaruane at apta.org www.apta.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ptidaho.org/pipermail/list/attachments/20090424/7131ba86/attachment.html