Ladies and Gents,
The SB 46, Direct Access bill has passed in Kansas and will take affect July 1,2013.

What is SB 46 anyway?
It means patients don’t need prescriptions from physicians to receive physical therapy. For more info click here.

What this means for Kansas PTs:
•Patients no longer need a Rx to come and be treated!
•You can market to people instead of (or as well as) Physicians
•Evals just got a whole lot more important–diligence and attention to detail

What this means for patients:
•You don’t need to go to the physician first! You can come straight to a highly qualified musculoskeletal specialist (physical therapist) and be treated.
•the barrier between patients and care just got a lot cheaper and easier

Where do we go from here?
Educate, Educate, Educate!
Most PTs don’t even know that Kansas has direct access, even less of the general public does. Patients with mild to moderate back pain or knee pain who never would have gone to the physician for it can walk into a physical therapy clinic, be evaluated and treated for much less! This is huge for patients and for the profession as a whole.

As a student it excites me to see Legislation favoring effective means of patient care. I’m excited for the future, hope you are too!