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This week AOTA is writing comments to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) on their report on March 8 about outpatient therapy services in Medicare. MedPAC is an advisory body to the US Congress. The Commission is composed of appointees but the work is generally done by staff. MedPAC is...

Health care may be perceived as on a negative trajectory these days, what with so much discussion of Medicare changes, threats and cuts to state Medicaid benefits, and the Supreme Court arguments over the Accountable Care Act mandate and other issues two weeks ago. (See AOTA's article http://www...

Several issues have come up this week that make me think about how important it is to describe occupational therapy correctly and convincingly. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission had a report at its meeting last week indicating that therapists use very general terms to describe what they do. Private...

One issue AOTA regularly focuses on at the Federal level is the state of rehabilitation research, particularly the state of occupational therapy research. While there are many venues for addressing this critical if not overly sexy topic, a couple of the most well-known are the National Institutes of...

Hello and greetings from the AOTA Division of Public Affairs. Within Public Affairs we have divisions and sections that address and support federal legislation, federal regulatory policy, private insurance policy, state licensure laws and regulations, other state issues, and AOTPAC, the political arm...