[QUOTE who="PTAguy-retired in Fresno, California"]Do Surgical Tech. The pay is better and there will always be jobs available. Also, you can advance your career to Nursing if you want and you can apply that experience as an ST for college credit . PTA/OTA will become a thing of the past once the new Medicare Reimbursement system kicks in.
I was a PTA for 30+ years before I retired due to lack of job opportunities.[/QUOTE]
Now I'm kinda scared. Im currently at my community college and my major is PTA. I only have to take A&P 1 and 2 and then ill be able to apply to the program. I didn't have any idea about this medicare reimbursement thing until I had come across this forum. Im reading online and it says by 2022 the medicare reimbursement will be 85% for PTAs and I'm sorta confused on what that means. Does this mean the pay will go down for PTAs in the future? I'm actually expected to graduate in 2022. I'm kinda scared, I feel like I'm in a career crisis now lol. I keep thinking about switching my major but the only other career I could MAYBE see myself in is respiratory therapy. And if I were to switch to that, the program prereqs are literally the exact same so I wouldn't be behind or taking extra classes. Im just stuck.
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