Legislation Episodes

Nick Patel leads APTQI, the alliance of competing community-based rehab practices that used to regroup only when a crisis hit — a Medicare cut, a bad regulation — then quietly fall apart once the fire was out. He helped turn that pattern into something permanent: a standing coalition of 9,000 practice locations that pools research, clinical expertise, and lobbying power year-round. His path into advocacy started with a torn ACL and an offhand comment from his own physical therapist that changed...