APTA ToolKits


Choose PT Toolkit

Use the following resources to raise awareness about the benefits of physical therapy and physical therapists' role as movement experts.

Choose PT Toolkit


Managed Care Contracting Toolkit 

APTA staff experts have created this toolkit for physical therapists new to the concepts of practicing under managed care as well as those who want to expand their knowledge and expertise. You’ll find practical guidance, applications, and key considerations that will impact and enhance your everyday practice. 

Managed Care Contracting Toolkit


Pediatric Clinical Instructor Toolkit 

The Pediatric Clinical Instructor Toolkit is a resource for all clinical educators seeking teaching ideas and resources to enhance their ability to educate others. It is a living resource and invite you to share your teaching strategies and resources with others by completing this form to add to the Toolkit!  

Pediatric Clinical Instructor Toolkit


Private Practice Monthly Marketing Toolkit 

The monthly toolkit is made up of free, ready-to-Share, professionally written, content for marketing your physical therapy practice to your community. We have monthly newsletters/blog posts, social media posts, and press release templates that can be copied and pasted, or customized to your practice with some simple edits.  

Private Practice Monthly Marketing Toolkit


Utilization Management Toolkit 

Insurers are increasingly contracting with third-party vendors of utilization management programs, or "UM," to administer the rehabilitation benefit. This can create both challenges and opportunities for physical therapists in the commercial sector. 

APTA provides strategies to mitigate the current and future impacts of UM use, including restrictive prior authorization policies, and ways to foster cooperation between providers and UM vendors so that both parties benefit. 

The ultimate goal is the provision of patient-centered care at the lowest cost and maximum outcomes.

Utilization Management Toolkit


State Payer Advocacy Resource Center 

Now available as an APTA member benefit: a suite of payment advocacy tools to help PTs address the overuse of prior authorization and utilization management. APTA and PPS collaborated to curate the collection, housed on the PPS website, as part of a joint initiative known as the State Payer Advocacy Resource Center, or SPARC.

State Payer Advocacy Resource Center