UPDATE: Re: New Michigan PT Administrative Rules (11/29/10)

[Guest guest]

Memo from the AG's office (found on the MATS webpage) 12/27/10, from the

licensing and regulation division of the MDCH:

http://data.memberclicks.com/site/mats/AG_Memo_PT_-_AT_issue_R3387139.pdf

http://www.matsonline.org/

It is designated as a momorandum so I don't know what legal weight it carries.

Points out that (as many of us seemed to have feared) that licensed and

unlicensed is not clearly defined.

Points out that if you interpret the rules to apply only to PT's and PTA's, then

preventing delegation to unlicensed individuals does not apply to ATC's.

However if you do include ATC's, then they are not considered unlicensed.

Either way the rules are interpreted, they aren't limiting to licensed ATC's.

I also found it a little disturbing that they state that the MPTA's opinion goes

against the joint statement by the APTA and NATA from 2009.

It also states that it is " advice " not a formal opinion, so can anyone explain

what if any legal weight it carries?

> Mr. Nanzer, ATC's would not be allowed to provide physical therapy

> interventions. They would be able to perform tasks and acts delegated

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> a PT or PTA.

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> Rick Gawenda, PT President Section on Health Policy & Administration

> APTA

> Supervisor

> Ingham Regional Medical Center

> SportsMed & Physical Therapy Center

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