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A special offer for continuing education courses. Registration has been extended until January 31, 2025!

This course bundle gives you unlimited access to a curated selection of over 200 courses. Earn over 30 CEUs, or 300 contact hours, by completing as many courses as you like within 90 days of registration. To explore all included courses, click on the Content Tab and browse the full selection of offerings.  

Key Features:

  • Purchase Information: $169 for members/post-professional members, $59 for students, $399 for non-members
  • Unlimited Access: Enjoy a curated selection of over 200 courses.
  • Earn Over 30 CEUs: Complete as many courses as you like within 90 days of registration.
  • Flexible Learning: Activate and complete courses at your own pace.
  • Explore Courses: Click on the Content Tab to browse the full selection of offerings.

Once registered, you have 90 days to complete as many courses* as you want. To access the courses of your choice, simply click the "Activate" buttons next to the courses you wish to take.

*Certain exclusions apply, including lecture series, conferences, certificate programs, component courses, and some advanced-level courses.

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  • Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits

    (LMS-MHS-2) This course helps clinicians apply stress-informed principles to physical therapy assessments and interventions using trauma-informed and biopsychosocial care models. As Part 2 of the Reframing the Complex Patient series, it focuses on translating stress science into practical, patient-centered clinical strategies. This course is available until 12/31/2026. (0.3 CEU / 3 contact hours)

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    This course is Part 2 of the Reframing the Complex Patient series, available for individual purchase, and builds on stress science to help clinicians apply an integrative, stress-informed approach to physical therapy care. Participants will learn how to adapt PT assessments and interventions by viewing patients through the lens of stress physiology, trauma-informed care, and biopsychosocial models. 

    Interested in the full three-course series? Click here to explore the complete Reframing the Complex Patient program.

    Key Features

    • This course is available until 12/31/2026
    • Cost
      • $99 for PT, PTA, Post-Professional, and Student Members
      • $149 for Non-Members
    • Earn CEU: 0.3 (3 contact hours)

    Sarah Wenger

    PT, DPT

    Sarah Wenger, PT, DPT, FNAP and Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist is the Physical Therapy Services Director for the Philadelphia Department of Health. In this role she is developing and directing a new program through the city’s Ambulatory Health Services that provides physical therapy to city residents who are uninsured or otherwise have limited access to services. She is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions where she was previously a professor for 17 years. She teaches the pathophysiology series where she develops students’ reasoning skills in the context of chronicity and complexity across the biopsychosocial spectrum. Dr. Wenger enjoys working with chronic biopsychosocial dynamics and teaching others how to care for patients with complex needs. Her treatment focuses on interprofessional collaboration, patient education, and building self-efficacy that empowers patients to manage their chronic conditions as independently as possible. As part of an interprofessional team, Dr. Wenger developed a chronic pain clinical reasoning model and psycho-education program called Power Over Pain. Dr. Wenger has published and presented on a range of topics related to her areas of expertise in chronic pain, complexity and chronicity, trauma-informed care, under-resourced populations, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional care and education.

    Andra DeVoght

    PT, MPH

    Has been a physical therapist since 1995. After a decade working at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle’s level 1 trauma hospital, she was inspired to pursue a master’s degree in public health that radically changed her approach to physical therapy and led her to open a private practice, Insight Physio PLLC. Andra’s clinical practice at Insight Physio focuses on a biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain, women’s health, and pediatrics. She collaborates with mental health professionals for the care of complex patients. She teaches therapeutic yoga and mindfulness classes for people experiencing chronic pain or other chronic illnesses.

    Andra has focused on continuing education course work that integrates a mind-body approach to health care. These include yoga teacher certification with specialty in trauma informed yoga, mindfulness instructor training, NEAR sciences (neuroscience, epigenetics, ACEs and resilience) teacher training, Explain Pain, Postural Restoration Institute courses, Center for Mind Body Medicine facilitator training, and most recently the advanced level course work with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

    In addition to clinical practice Andra collaborates on community-based projects teaching about the social determinants of health and a biopsychosocial approach to health and healthcare. She has developed curriculum and guest lectures for teachers/special-ed staff and middle school, high school , and midwifery students. Central to her biopsychosocial model is a deep understanding of the stress response and the health effects of stress and adversity. When we view patient care through the lens of the stress response, we begin to connect important dots between symptoms, beliefs, behavior and life circumstances.

    Course Instructions

    1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
    2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
    3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
    4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

    Need Assistance?

    For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

  • Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits

    (LMS-VA-13) This course offers recommendations to help develop rapport with Primary Care staff as well as ways to increase the Primary Care PTs caseload.

    Primary Care physical therapy offers many challenges and opportunities for physical therapists.  This course offers recommendations to help develop rapport with Primary Care staff as well as ways to increase the Primary Care PTs caseload.


    Learning Objectives:

    1. Analyze the most common communication options in Primary Care.
    2. Share examples of a musculoskeletal review class that can be shared with Primary Care staff.
    3. Discuss the benefits of discussing injuries with staff in Primary Care.
    4. Highlight the benefits of Primary Care staff/students observing the PT in Primary Care.
    5. Provide example handouts that may be used in Primary Care to build rapport with staff.
    6. Discuss beneficial Primary Care meetings for the PT to attend.
    7. Highlight ten strategies to increase Primary Care caseload.
    8. Review the importance of issuing durable medical equipment (DME) in Primary Care.
    9. Review sample case scenarios highlighting strategies to build rapport with staff.

    Brandon I. Peterson

    DPT, Cert. MDT, ATC

    Dr. Brandon Peterson has practiced physical therapy at the Sioux Falls VA Healthcare system since 2013.  He created a Primary Care (PACT – Patient Aligned Care Team) physical therapy program at the Sioux Falls VA in 2016 and has since worked in Primary Care full time.  In 2017, he was appointed the Chair of Embedding Physical Therapists into Primary Care across VISN 23 (Veterans Integrated Services Network).  Due to the success of this program, Dr. Peterson and other members of VISN 23 submitted the Primary Care PT program into the VA Shark Tank competition.  In 2020, the program was awarded a promising practice and later a national diffusion project.  Dr. Peterson currently serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Primary Care Physical Therapy National Diffusion project through the VA Diffusion of Excellence.   The goal of the project is for every VA or CBOC (Community Based Outreach Clinic) to embed physical therapists into their PACT team by 2025.

    Course Instructions

    1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
    2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
    3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
    4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

    Need Assistance?

    For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

  • Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits

    (ABPTRFE-AW22) Throughout this workshop, we will review the steps in seeking renewal of accreditation, and offer some guidance to provide programs with the best possible opportunity for success.

    Congratulations on beginning to prepare for renewal of accreditation from ABPTRFE. ABPTRFE strives to provide comprehensive support to Program Directors throughout this 11-month long process. This Accreditation Workshop is designed to remind you of the process and provide helpful hints as you prepare the Self-Evaluation Report and corresponding Exhibits. Throughout this workshop, we will review the steps in seeking renewal of accreditation, and offer some guidance to provide programs with the best possible opportunity for success.

    Course Instructions

    1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
    2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
    3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
    4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

    Need Assistance?

    For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

  • Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits

    (ABPTRFE-CW22) This Candidacy Workshop is designed to familiarize you with the process and provide helpful hints as you prepare the initial Self-Evaluation Report and corresponding Exhibits. Throughout this workshop, we will review the steps in seeking candidacy and offer some guidance to provide programs with the best possible opportunity for success.

    Congratulations for taking the first step in initial accreditation by applying for, and seeking, candidacy from ABPTRFE. ABPTRFE strives to provide comprehensive support to Program Directors throughout this 23 month long process. This Candidacy Workshop is designed to familiarize you with the process and provide helpful hints as you prepare the initial Self-Evaluation Report and corresponding Exhibits. Throughout this workshop, we will review the steps in seeking candidacy and offer some guidance to provide programs with the best possible opportunity for success.

    Course Instructions

    1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
    2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
    3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
    4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

    Need Assistance?

    For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

  • Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits

    (ABPTRFE-RCI) This training course is required for all individuals who will complete the APTA Resident Competency Evaluation Instrument. This course familiarizes users with the evaluation instrument and consists of 5 modules: (1) introduction, (2) core competencies defined, (3) rating scale and definitions, (4) significant concerns - providing comments, and (5) instrument administration and copyright laws.

    This training course is required for all individuals who will complete the APTA Resident Competency Evaluation Instrument. This course familiarizes users with the evaluation instrument and consists of 5 modules: (1) introduction, (2) core competencies defined, (3) rating scale and definitions, (4) significant concerns - providing comments, and (5) instrument administration and copyright laws.

    Course Instructions

    1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
    2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
    3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
    4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

    Need Assistance?

    For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

  • Contains 6 Component(s), Includes Credits

    (DEI-FDN) This course equips participants with practical tools to recognize unconscious bias, understand power and privilege, and respond to microaggressions in healthcare and professional settings. Learners will build skills in allyship and bystander intervention to help create more inclusive and equitable environments. This course is available until 12/31/2026. (0.6 / 6 contact hours)

    This course examines how unconscious bias, power, privilege, and microaggressions shape experiences in healthcare, education, and professional settings. Participants gain practical tools to recognize bias, reduce harm, and build more inclusive and equitable environments through everyday actions and allyship.

    Key Features

    • This course is available until 12/31/2026
    • Cost: 
      • $100 for PT, PTA, Post-Professional, and Student Members
      • $300 for Non-Members 
    • CEU: Earn 0.6 CEUs 

    Course Details

    • Video 1: Unconscious Bias in the Health Professions
      • Explores where unconscious bias comes from, how it influences clinical and professional decision-making, and practical strategies to reduce its negative impact.
    • Video 2: Power, Privilege, and Microaggressions
      • Examines identity, power dynamics, and dominant cultures, and how these factors contribute to microaggressions in healthcare and professional environments.
    • Video 3: Responding to Microaggressions through Allyship
      • Provides allyship and bystander intervention frameworks to help participants respond to harm, support others, and foster respectful, accountable workplaces.

    Diana Lautenberger

    MA

    Diana Lautenberger, MA, manages the Association of American Medical College's gender equity portfolio as co-lead of the AAMC's Gender Equity Lab. She also serves as a faculty member for the AAMC's leadership development seminars for junior and midcareer women and directs research projects related to faculty and staff workplace issues, specifically focused on diversity and inclusion, gender equity, and culture and climate.

    Previously, she led various leadership and workforce engagement initiatives aimed at faculty development for AAMC. Responsible for curriculum design and implementation, she oversaw two leadership development programs for faculty to equip them with leadership skills needed to deal with the impending changes of the academic and health care environments.

    She holds a masters degree in art education, with a focus on curriculum design and creative thinking as a driver of equity and solution to address systemic oppression. She is part of several organizations in the Washington, D.C. area, that use artistic expression to explore concepts of racism, sexism, and social justice.

    Course Instructions

    1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recordings.
    2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
    3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
    4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

    Need Assistance?

    For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

  • Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits

    (LMS-MHS-1) This course introduces the science of stress and its impact on complex patient care, helping clinicians apply a stress-informed, integrative approach in physical therapy practice. As Part 1 of the Reframing the Complex Patient series, it lays the foundation for understanding stress physiology, chronic stress effects, and key risk and protective factors that influence patient outcomes. This course is available until 12/31/2026. (0.2 CEU / 2 contact hours)

    This course is Part 1 of the Reframing the Complex Patient series, available for individual purchase. This course introduces a stress-informed, integrative approach to caring for complex patients by placing stress science at the center of clinical decision-making. Participants will explore stress physiology, the health effects of chronic stress, biobehavioral coping mechanisms, social determinants of health, and key concepts such as allostatic load and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), with direct application to physical therapy practice.

    Interested in the full three-course series? Click here to explore the complete Reframing the Complex Patient program.

    Key Features

    • This course is available until 12/31/2026
    • Cost
      • $99 for PT, PTA, Post-Professional, and Student Members
      • $149 for Non-Members
    • Earn CEU: 0.2 (2 contact hours)

    Andra DeVoght

    PT, MPH

    Has been a physical therapist since 1995. After a decade working at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle’s level 1 trauma hospital, she was inspired to pursue a master’s degree in public health that radically changed her approach to physical therapy and led her to open a private practice, Insight Physio PLLC. Andra’s clinical practice at Insight Physio focuses on a biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain, women’s health, and pediatrics. She collaborates with mental health professionals for the care of complex patients. She teaches therapeutic yoga and mindfulness classes for people experiencing chronic pain or other chronic illnesses.

    Andra has focused on continuing education course work that integrates a mind-body approach to health care. These include yoga teacher certification with specialty in trauma informed yoga, mindfulness instructor training, NEAR sciences (neuroscience, epigenetics, ACEs and resilience) teacher training, Explain Pain, Postural Restoration Institute courses, Center for Mind Body Medicine facilitator training, and most recently the advanced level course work with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

    In addition to clinical practice Andra collaborates on community-based projects teaching about the social determinants of health and a biopsychosocial approach to health and healthcare. She has developed curriculum and guest lectures for teachers/special-ed staff and middle school, high school , and midwifery students. Central to her biopsychosocial model is a deep understanding of the stress response and the health effects of stress and adversity. When we view patient care through the lens of the stress response, we begin to connect important dots between symptoms, beliefs, behavior and life circumstances.

    Sarah Wenger

    PT, DPT

    Sarah Wenger, PT, DPT, FNAP and Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist is the Physical Therapy Services Director for the Philadelphia Department of Health. In this role she is developing and directing a new program through the city’s Ambulatory Health Services that provides physical therapy to city residents who are uninsured or otherwise have limited access to services. She is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions where she was previously a professor for 17 years. She teaches the pathophysiology series where she develops students’ reasoning skills in the context of chronicity and complexity across the biopsychosocial spectrum. Dr. Wenger enjoys working with chronic biopsychosocial dynamics and teaching others how to care for patients with complex needs. Her treatment focuses on interprofessional collaboration, patient education, and building self-efficacy that empowers patients to manage their chronic conditions as independently as possible. As part of an interprofessional team, Dr. Wenger developed a chronic pain clinical reasoning model and psycho-education program called Power Over Pain. Dr. Wenger has published and presented on a range of topics related to her areas of expertise in chronic pain, complexity and chronicity, trauma-informed care, under-resourced populations, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional care and education.

    Course Instructions

    1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
    2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
    3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
    4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

    Need Assistance?

    For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

  • Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 10/07/2022

    (LMS-HIPAA-TH) Learn to comply with HIPAA when using telehealth services.

    A rising trend in the practice of physical therapy is the use of telehealth and mobile health technology. However, maintaining patient privacy is an important consideration that must not be overlooked. Physical therapists need to know how to comply with regulations established by HIPAA as well as the APTA Code of Ethics.

    Learning Objectives

    1. Clearly identify the legal and ethical implications for technology application in practice

    2. Recognize need to address legal/ethical concerns in technology use in practice

    3. Comprehend strategies to ensure HIPAA compliance

    Kara Gainer

    JD

    Kara is the director of regulatory affairs at APTA. She joined APTA in 2017 and provider leadership and strategic direction to the regulatory affairs team on key programs, initiatives, and policy development in the federal regulatory space. She has extensive knowledge and experience working on policies related to Medicare, Medicaid, health care reform, and provider billing and reimbursement. Prior to joining APTA, she was a health care consultant with Drinker Biddle and Reath, where she developed and executed comprehensive public policy strategies for her clients that integrated legislative, regulatory, and communications efforts. She also served as an attorney advisor for the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, and she clerked with the US Senate Sergeant at Arms. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Montana and law degree from the University of Montana School of Law, and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

    Matt Elrod

    PT, DPT, MEd

    Matt Elrod, PT, DPT, MEd, is lead specialist in APTA’s Practice Department. He is liaison to various external organizations, contributes to policy development in the advancement of the profession, develops member resources in evidence-based practice, ICD-10 transition, telehealth, adoption of electronic health records, and integration of the Physical Therapy Outcomes Registry. He has more than 20 years of experience in the physical therapy profession, and earned a physical therapy degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, a doctor of physical therapy degree from Marymount University, and a master of education degree from the Citadel in exercise physiology. He is a board-certified clinical specialist in neurologic physical therapy.

    Course Instructions

    1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
    2. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
    3. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 


      Need Assistance?

      For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

    1. Contains 5 Component(s), Includes Credits

      (LMS-Documentation-1) This is Part 1 of the Medicare Documentation series. You can purchase Part 2 here.

      This course will focus on compliant documentation utilizing the Medicare’ Documentation Requirements as published in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual and the APTA Defensible Documentation. It will not only address specific content requirements but also the consequences of not complying with these regulations. Special attention will be afforded to effective drafting of Plans of Care, differentiating the evaluation from a progress report, the purpose of the treatment encounter note and ultimately how to document in a way that tells the ‘whole’ story without writing a book.

      Learning Objectives:

      1. Explain the difference between the "evaluation in the initial examination with that" in the progress report

      2.Articulate when and how to use the "Delayed Plan of Care" provision

      3. Execute a compliant Treatment Encounter Note

      4. Capture relevant evaluative findings and document to justify skilled intervention

      5. Identify documentation deficiencies that lead to denials, refunds, and/or sanctions


      You can purchase Part 2 here.

      Mary Daulong

      PT, CHC, CHP

      Mary Daulong, PT, CHC, CHP, is owner of Business & Clinical Management Services Inc, providing consultation for small- to medium-sized private practices and billing companies. For 2 decades she has guided private practitioners, rehab agencies, and therapy-specific billing companies through the maze of health care regulatory change. Daulong earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch, SAHS, has master’s-level business management education, and has over 1,500 hours of postgraduate education in health care-related matters. She is certified in health care compliance and is credentialed by the HIPAA Academy as a HIPAA privacy professional. Her past career includes self-employment as a private practitioner, and senior and mid-management employment in diverse settings, and she has specific expertise in health care regulation including OIG guidance; Medicare payment, documentation, and coverage regulations; OSHA; ADA; Department of Labor; HIPAA/HITECH; professional practice regulatory compliance; and operational integration

      Daulong has been recognized by her profession and community, regularly speaking in both national and state venues. She has been honored by academic institutions, state agencies, and professional, community, and civic associations as well as by her peers, and she continues to be an active volunteer in her professional associations.

      Course Instructions

      1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
      2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
      3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
      4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

      Need Assistance?

      For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

    2. Contains 5 Component(s), Includes Credits

      (LMS-Documentation-2) This is Part 2 of the Medicare Documentation series.

       You can purchase Part 1 here.

      This course will continue the discussion on compliant documentation utilizing Medicare’ Documentation Requirements as published in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. It will, not only, address specific content requirements but also the consequences of not complying with these regulations. Special attention will be afforded to effective drafting of Plans of Care, differentiating the goals of an evaluation and progress report’s assessment, the purpose of the treatment encounter note and ultimately how to document in a way that tells the ‘whole’ story without writing a book.

      Learning Objectives:

      1. Explain the difference between the "evaluation in the initial examination with that" in the progress report

      2.Articulate when and how to use the "Delayed Plan of Care" provision

      3. Execute a compliant Treatment Encounter Note

      4. Capture relevant evaluative findings and document to justify skilled intervention

      5. Identify documentation deficiencies that lead to denials, refunds, and/or sanctions

        

      Mary Daulong

      PT, CHC, CHP

      Mary Daulong, PT, CHC, CHP, is owner of Business & Clinical Management Services Inc, providing consultation for small- to medium-sized private practices and billing companies. For 2 decades she has guided private practitioners, rehab agencies, and therapy-specific billing companies through the maze of health care regulatory change. Daulong earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch, SAHS, has master’s-level business management education, and has over 1,500 hours of postgraduate education in health care-related matters. She is certified in health care compliance and is credentialed by the HIPAA Academy as a HIPAA privacy professional. Her past career includes self-employment as a private practitioner, and senior and mid-management employment in diverse settings, and she has specific expertise in health care regulation including OIG guidance; Medicare payment, documentation, and coverage regulations; OSHA; ADA; Department of Labor; HIPAA/HITECH; professional practice regulatory compliance; and operational integration

      Daulong has been recognized by her profession and community, regularly speaking in both national and state venues. She has been honored by academic institutions, state agencies, and professional, community, and civic associations as well as by her peers, and she continues to be an active volunteer in her professional associations.

      Course Instructions

      1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
      2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
      3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
      4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

      Need Assistance?

      For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org.