Tag: legislation
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The Top 5 Posts of 2025
Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone had a great holiday season and was able to take some much deserved time off. For returning readers, welcome back to The PT Page. For new readers, welcome! 2026 is here and I thought we’d get back in to the swing of things by looking at some of the…
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PT Isn’t ‘Professional’ Anymore – What It Means for All of Us
If you read the legislative update from a couple weeks ago I gave you my initial thoughts about the Department Ed dropping PT from the list of professional programs. I told you you’d be hearing more from me in the near future. I honestly was going to wait till after the new year but I…
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April 2025 Legislative Update
It’s been awhile since a legislative update. The last time we took a look at what’s going on with PT legislation was right at the end of 2024. Since we’re a third of the way into the year already, I figured it was time for a little legislative update. You’ll see some familiar pieces of…
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December 2024 Legislative Update
The year is almost over so I figured it would be most appropriate to close things out with a little legislative update. There are some BIG, extremely positive things happening in congress. Now, I’ll preface that with a warning because not everything is quite over the finish line. I seriously CANNOT stress enough just how…
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The Evolving Role of PTs in Diagnostic Imaging
More states continue to expand PT practice acts to allow us to refer for diagnostic imaging. Maryland, Colorado, Utah, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, North Dakota, District of Columbia, New Jersey, West Virginia, and Arizona all belong to the “PTs allowed to order imaging” club. Iowa just became one of its newest members a few months ago.…
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PT Legislative Update August 2024
I’m very excited to give you the first PT Page legislative update! These legislative updates will be reoccurring just like the research highlights. If you missed the first research highlight I dropped back in June, you can read it here! Keeping up with legislative changes can be a bit tricky. There’s a lot of misinformation…