<p><b>IPTA Newsletter at www.ptidaho.org.</b></p><p>The Aug. Idaho Insight is
now online. A hard copy should be arriving in your mailbox next
week.</p><p><b>IPTA Annual Meeting/Continuing Education.</b></p><p>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. </p><p><b>
CMS Seeking Volunteers for Demonstration</b>
</p><p>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@rti.org. Final selections will be made in fall 2007.
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