Potential quality reporting system in APTA’s future
Rehab Regs, February 23, 2007
Therapists in the future may have to comply with a quality reporting system, which was one of the critical provisions of the Tax Relief and Healthcare Act of 2006, said Justin Moore, PT, DPT, director of congressional affairs for the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) during its 2007 conference in Boston.
The Physician Voluntary Reporting Program, which is likely to include measures that reflect therapy quality, is a way for Medicare to change its payment paradigm and to integrate quality into the payment scheme, Moore said. Specific measures such as falls prevention will likely be included in the program, Moore said.
APTA is trying to get CMS to allow therapists to participate and choose what and how to measure quality. "The door is open to participate, now we have to get the agencies to let us participate," he said.
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