WVOTA Press
- Try This WV 2019 Conference
- State Hill Day 2019
- What is Occupational Therapy?
- Education Reform Bill Status 2/5
- Delegate: Bill Changing Occupational Licensing Law in West Virginia Submitted in Error
- HB2697 and SB492
- Rondalyn Whitney: What I learned from Paperwhites
- Get Involved 2019!
- WVOTA Legislative Day 2019
- Repeal of cap on Medicare outpatient therapy services
- The Amy, Vicky, and Andy Act Passed the Senate - OT Mentioned
- AOTA Continues Efforts to Urge NIH to Focus on Rehab Research
- Occupational Therapy Included in New Law to Address Opioid Epidemic
- AOTA Members Urge Research Institutes and Congress to Protect and Expand Rehab Research Efforts
- Opioids Legislation Including Occupational Therapy Services, Advances in House Committee
- TRICARE to Require Formal Rule Making Process Before Occupational Therapy Assistants Designated as Providers
- Bill Undermining ADA Protections Passes the House
- Message Regarding OTA Payment Changes in Budget Bill
- Therapy Cap Repealed After 20 Years: Message from AOTA President
- Victory in Sight: Permanent Repeal of Therapy Cap in House Budget Bill Being Voted on Today
- The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
- Home Health Changes For Therapy
- Understanding the Proposal to Change OTA Payments
- Therapy Cap in Place Since Jan. 1: Medicare Issues Guidance About Claims
- Therapy Cap to Be Reinstated in 2018: Congress Fails to Take Action
- Access to Therapy Services Threatened if Congress Fails to Act
- Tricare Reimbursement of Occupational Therapy Assistant Services Advances in Congress; Policy to be Signed into Law by End of 2017
- Bill to Designate OTAs as Tricare Providers Signed into Law
- Pain Management Survey Questions Will No Longer Impact Inpatient CMS Hospital Reimbursement Rates
- Important Step Taken to Repeal the Therapy Cap More Action Needed to Guarantee Passage by the End of the Year
- Congress Adopts Budget Resolution with Focus on Tax Reform
- Congress Introduces Medicare Home Health Act
- Congressional Committees Announce Framework for Therapy Cap Repeal
- The Effect of Rescinded Special Ed Guidance on OT Practitioners
- Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act Introduced in House
- AOTA's Centennial Hill Day Recap
- Five Ways the Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill May Affect OT and Your Clients
- Health Care Reform Efforts Revived in the Senate
- AOTA Submits Priorities for Occupational Therapy to Ways and Means Committee as Part of Red Tape Reduction Initiative
- AOTA Supports Coalition Lobbying Efforts to Fund Federal Disability and Rehab Research
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Paperwhites, or Narcissus tazetta, are those fragrant, winter-blooming bulbs that are grown indoors. Inside each bulb is everything that's needed to produce a living bouquet of beautiful flowers. Simply put the bulbs in a container, add water, and they'll be blooming in just 3 to 4 weeks. These lovely flowers are the birth flower for those born in December and symbolizes good wishes, faithfulness and respect. More, for many of us, paperwhites are the bright blossoms of hope, blooms that burst forward in defiance of the winter solstice, midwinter, when earth’s poles tilt to their farthest arc away from the sun. Midwinter, the sun at her lowest as might be one’s spirits too at the longest and darkest of days.
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Hello all WV AOTA members. It has been my pleasure to represent the therapists of WV in AOTA this year. The Fall online meeting ended in early November and a lot of business regarding the entry degree level for OT and OTA was discussed. You can see a summary of the meeting here: at http://www.aota.org/AboutAOTA/Get-Involved/RA/past-meetings.aspx.
Planning as begun for the spring meeting which will be held in New Orleans in April. The call for motions is active and any motions for consideration by the RA are due by January 2, 2019 by 5:00 p.n. EST. Please feel free to contact me with your motions or ideas about a motion. You can access the necessary forms and review the process of writing a motion under the RA information heading at https://www.aota.org/AboutAOTA/Get-Involved/RA.aspx.
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Our WVOTA Legislative Day will be Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at the State Capitol in Charleston.
Contact Mary Hagar at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Sarah Black at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by January 1, 2019 if you plan on coming.
They will coordinate legislative appointments with your representatives and arrange table space as needed the Capitol Rotunda.
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This morning the President signed into law a permanent repeal of the cap on Medicare outpatient therapy services. After 20 years of looming threat, the therapy cap will never again put beneficiaries at risk for being denied essential occupational therapy services.
Many of you have seen firsthand the devastating effects that a cap on occupational therapy services can have on the clients we serve. Like some of you, I lost my job when the cap first took effect in 1999. Today, because of you, this policy is no more! Over the years, you have written hundreds of thousands of letters to tell Congress to stop the cap. You have placed thousands of phone calls to tell Congress why occupational therapy is essential for our clients.
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Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer and Delegate Amy Summers both received awards this past weekend from the WV Occupational Therapy Association. Delegate Fleischauer, D-Monongalia is a former Vice Chair of the House Health and Human Resources Committee. Delegate Summers, R-Taylor, is the current Vice Chair.
The WV Occupational Therapy Association (WVOTA) held its annual meeting at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center in Morgantown on Saturday, October 13, 2018. The organization awarded its “Spirit of the WVOTA Award” to the two delegates because of their work on Senate Bill 273, which relates to reducing the problems of opiate abuse in West Virginia. The Delegates made sure that occupational therapists were among the health professionals who are licensed and compensated to provide care for patients with opioid addiction.
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WVOTA joined AOTA and occupational therapy practitioners, educators, and students across the country as we help others Live Life To Its Fullest by avoiding the pain and injury that can come from heavy backpacks and bags. Students, parents, educators, school administrators, and community members will learn safety tips to stay protected from back pain throughout life. You have the chance to help by organizing local events and educating people of all ages about proper bag usage. Teach others how to properly choose, pack, lift, and carry various types of bags—including backpacks, purses, briefcases, and suitcases.
We typically celebrate AOTA’s National School Backpack Awareness Day annually on the third Wednesday of each September. This year's event will officially take place on Wednesday, September 18, 2019.