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This webinar will discuss advocacy efforts at the state level to ensure occupational therapy practitioners across all settings are able to both provide and be reimbursed for services provided via telehealth during the COVID-19 emergency. Topics include working with state OT boards and the Governor’s office to allow occupational therapy services via telehealth, Medicaid reimbursement for OT services provided via telehealth, and the ability for OTAs to provide services via telehealth. To sign up and for more information, please visit: http://www.aota.org/Conference-Events/Coronavirus-COVID19.aspx

This webinar will feature the following state association presidents and leaders to discuss their state advocacy efforts and successes.
Ability for occupational therapy services to be provided via telehealth:

• Lisa Lowery, OTR/L – Montana
• Evelyn Andersson, PhD, OTR/L, RYT; Wade McDowell, OTR/L; and Veda Collmer, Esq , OT/L – Arizona

Medicaid reimbursement for OT services provided via telehealth:

• Cindy Blackwell, OTD, OTR/L – Tennessee
• Sarah Gassman, OTR/L – South Carolina
• Nicole Boyington, OTD, MOT, OTR/L, CLT, ECHM, ADHD-CCSP – Wisconsin

Ability for OTAs to provide services via telehealth:

• Becky Finni, DHS, OTR/L, RAC-CT – Ohio
• Flo Hannes, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA and Jeff Tomlinson, OTR, MSW, FAOTA – New York
• Becky Crenshaw, MRC, CRC – Arkansas

Following each panel there will be time for Q&A.