# Plan of treatment certification

A term used when buying physical therapy practice.

The certification a therapist's plan needs, on a ninety-day clock, and the referral that stands in.

A physical therapy practice is the one medical practice here holding no [controlled-substance registration](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/dea-registration), and the outside authority it does depend on is easy to miss, because the therapist writes the plan. Federal rules let the therapist establish it and then look to a physician or an equivalent practitioner to certify. Since January 2025 the INITIAL certification needs no signature where a written referral is on file and the practice documents that the plan reached the practitioner within thirty days of the initial evaluation. Every ninety-day recertification still needs one. So the outstanding-signature problem is now a recertification problem, and that is the queue to ask for: how many are open, and how old the oldest is.

Part of: Buying a Physical Therapy Practice (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-physical-therapy-practice)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-physical-therapy-practice/terms/plan-of-treatment-certification
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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