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Check out this free, self-paced course on devel­op­ing acces­si­ble materials.

Prac­ti­tion­ers must under­stand what the reg­u­la­tions regard­ing ther­a­py ser­vices for tele­health with Medicare are.

Learn more and take the sur­vey to help Health­care in Iowa!

Dr. Frol­ek Clark is an award win­ner for the 2021 AOTA Awards!

IOTA host­ed a vir­tu­al con­fer­ence this year with the CEU con­tent being able to be com­plet­ed at your own pace. There was live con­tent on Sep­tem­ber 25^th, which has been uploaded and is avail­able for view­ing now. Mem­bers pay less then $10/CEU cred­it hour! Reg­is­ter at the bot­tom of the Mem­ber­ship Page, don’t for­get to reg­is­ter as a mem­ber as well if your mem­ber­ship has expired dur­ing COVID.

IOTA Fall Con­fer­ence 2020 has gone Virtual

In an effort to keep allow greater access to con­fer­ence and allow for tak­ing need­ed pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures, the IOTA 2020 Fall Con­fer­ence will be com­plete­ly vir­tu­al. We need your ideas for pre­sen­ta­tions and posters, which will be record­ed pri­or to con­fer­ence and view­able before and after con­fer­ence. Infor­ma­tion about the con­fer­ence can be found here.

State Asso­ci­a­tions Newsletter

See what is hap­pen­ing across all state OT asso­ci­a­tions and the work being done to pro­tect and advance our profession!

Med­ic­aid Help

We know many of you have been hav­ing dif­fi­cul­ties with Med­ic­aid and want­ed to pro­vide you with some resources for more information.

• IA Health Link: Sum­ma­ry of New Con­tracts and Leg­isla­tive Requirements
• SFY19 IA Health­Link Man­aged Care Rate Devel­op­ment Actu­ar­i­al Certification
• A list of Val­ue-Added Ser­vices bro­ken down by cur­rent Man­aged Care Organization
• Data Rec­om­men­da­tion Subcommittee’s Report
• MAAC 2019 Schedule

Con­cerns with PDPM

Con­tact AOTA with con­cerns and changes you have expe­ri­enced since PDPM was imple­ment­ed so they can advo­cate for change with Medicare!

Con­tact your leg­is­la­tors through resources avail­able from AOTA and NBCOT!