Alice Bell, PT, DPT, is a senior specialist in health policy and payment at APTA, a role she has held since joining the association in 2016. Her duties include engaging with commercial payers to advocate for positive physical therapy policies and address member issues and challenges, representing APTA on public and private workgroups to advocate for physical therapy, developing member resources related to payment and advancing opportunities for physical therapists in alternative payment models and quality payment programs. Alice received a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, and a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Montana. Her professional activities include serving on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Technical Expert Panels, APTA staff representative to the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), APTA appointee to the NDHI Opioid Crisis Workgroup, National Quality Partnership Opioid Stewardship Action Team, and the National Quality Partnership Opioid Stewardship Steering Committee, member of the National Quality Partnership Leadership Consortium, APTA representative to the National Quality Forum Measure Applications Partnership for Post-Acute and Long Term Care, APTA representative to the MACRA Wave 4 Low Back Pain Cost Measure workgroup, and member of the Battelle Partnership for Quality Improvement Cost and Efficiency Workgroup. Most recently Alice was appointed to the American Institutes for Research®️ (AIR), Functional Assessment Expert Workgroup. Dr. Bell works with public and private payers to promote policy changes to support the delivery of physical therapy. Dr. Bell is engaged in value based and alternative payment model development and clinical innovations in integrating digital health into the practice of physical therapy.