About Us

Our Mission:

To protect and preserve the rights of physicians to own and provide professional physical/ occupational therapy services as an integral part of their medical group practice.
To protect and preserve the rights of physical/ occupational therapists to practice in physician-based rehab settings.
To protect and preserve the rights of Patient Consumers to receive physical/occupational therapy services within their doctor’s practice.

To establish a national membership base of physical therapists, occupational therapists, physicians, and practice administrators that are providing physician-based professional rehab services.
To provide a common networking forum for our membership to collect and disseminate relevant, timely, and accurate information pertaining to physician-based physical/occupational therapy services.
To provide benchmarking data for patient outcomes, rehab utilization, and aggregate costs, for physician-based rehab services.
To establish a Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for the delivery of physical/occupational therapy service provided in physician-based settings.
To identify and address value-added services to benefit membership in the areas of educating professional development and advancement of APR’s objectives.
To assist in the state and federal lobbying efforts for issues pertaining to physician-based rehab services.