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Benefits of Belonging
Advocacy
- Promoting federal and state legislation to give patients and clients direct access to physical therapists without a referral.
- Preserving the scope of physical therapists’ practice against efforts to restrict or eliminate your ability to practice.
- Prevented a scheduled 10.6% reduction in payments under the Medicare physician fee schedule for 2008 and preventing an additional 5.0% cut for 2009.
Career Center
- Access to DCPTA’s and APTA’s job board
- Ability to market yourself through Find a PT
- Discount on job postings through DCPTA’s Career Center
Continuing Education
- Save 20% on all Continuing Education hosted by the Chapter
- Save 10% on all EDUCATA on line education courses
- More than 1,690 hours of continuing education at a reduced rate via APTA’s Annual Conference, the Combined Sections Meeting, Preview 2020, APTA Learning Center, Advanced Clinical Practice courses, and a host of workshops and seminars on such topics as Reimbursement and Coding, Fraud and Abuse, and Fitness and Wellness Consultation.
Find Answers to Your PT Questions
- Physical Therapy, PT Magazine, the Chapter newsletter The DC Stimulator ($170 value; FREE to members)
- PTA’s Consulting Service that links members with qualified consultants who can provide personalized guidance
- 24-hour access to information via www.apta.org
Networking
- 24 hour access to the chapter’s and national’s member directory
Reimbursement and Regulation
- Updates on payment and policy issues
- Links to major payers in DC (including United HealthCare, BCBS, CMS, Work Comp regulations etc.
- Link to APTA Payment Policy Pages for Private Payers, Medicare, Medicaid