#StopTheCap on Medicare B Therapy Benefits

TSPTA PT Delegate, Joshua Hill, has been working hard representing Texas students at the delegate conference calls and wants YOU to be a part of advocacy efforts to #StopTheCap on Part B Medicare therapy benefits.

What this means is once the cap is met (just $2010 for PT AND Speech Therapy COMBINED and $2010 for OT), individuals in Long Term Care will not be able to receive physical therapy unless they pay out of pocket. This forces many patients to stop receiving the physical therapy that they need to live long, healthy lives.

Please consider contacting the Texas legislators representing your area, or at least help spread awareness by sharing this post on your social media, to make our elders a priority and #StopTheCap

PS. Follow the FB page below to keep up to date on this issue:
https://www.facebook.com/Stop-the-Medicare-Therapy-Cap-29…/…

$250 Travel Scholarship for APTA's Federal Advocacy Forum due February 28th

GOOD EVENING TEXAS!

It's my pleasure to introduce myself. My name is Daniel Millar. I'm a second-year DPT student at the University of Texas at El Paso, and I am the APTA Texas Core Ambassador for the 2018 Academic Year. My role is really to connect SPTs and SPTAs across Texas to opportunities to get involved with the APTA. Below you'll find my promo for an opportunity coming up next month:

The TSPTA is offering FOUR $250 travel scholarships to attend the Federal Advocacy Forum! It will be in Washington DC on April 29 through May 1st! All SPTs and SPTAs in Texas are eligible to apply.

This is a really great opportunity to get involved in this profession as students. You'll get see first-hand how our advocacy efforts shape the conversations being had at the national level regarding policies that dictate how we practice. You will get the chance to network with other students, practicing PTs and PTAs, and policy-makers that are equally as passionate about this profession as you are. The student perspective is so valuable because many of the people making decisions on our profession have little to no knowledge about our education level or our profession as a whole. So I strongly encourage you to consider applying!

Below you'll find the PDF for the application:
https://d2zhgehghqjuwb.cloudfront.net/accounts/11725/original/2018_FAF_Scholarship_Application.pdf?1513263859

All applications are due no later than 5 pm on Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 to Cambria Carson at tspta.president@gmail.com.

Thanks for reading! You can find us on Facebook by searching the "Texas Student Physical Therapy Association", on Twitter at @TSPTA, and on Instagram by following "texasspta".