1. (a) A facility that provides physical therapy services must retain, as an employee or under contract as a consultant of the facility, a physical therapist licensed under AS 08.84. If treatment is to be rendered by a physical therapy assistant, the physical therapy assistant must be licensed under AS 08.84, and the treatment must be planned, delegated, and supervised by the physical therapist.
2. (b) A physical therapist may evaluate a patient and establish a treatment program only upon written or verbal instructions from the treating physician. A treatment program and any modification to it must be approved by the referring physician. A physical therapist may accept a verbal order of a physician.

3. (c) A physical therapist shall perform the following duties or, if one or more of these duties is delegated to a physical therapy assistant, the physical therapist shall ensure that the duties are properly performed:

   1. (1) enter each treatment into the patient's medical record;
   2. (2) prepare clinical progress notes;
   3. (3) prepare summaries of care.

(Eff. 11/19/83, Register 88; am 5/24/2007, Register 182)

Authority: AS 18.05.040, AS 47.32.010, AS 47.32.030