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Professional Facility Guide

Required documents to open a physiotherapy center

Select a country to see the official documents, licenses, and facility standards needed to open a physiotherapy center.

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United States

Prepared facility-licensing dossier
Licensing authority
State physical-therapy board (practice) + state/local business licence + CMS/NPI if billing insurance or Medicare
Legal form
LLC/PC/PLLC per state professional-entity rules; some states restrict who may own a PT practice
Typical timeline
2–8 months (state board + NPI + payers)
Typical fees
Entity filing + state PT licence(s) + NPI + malpractice + payer enrollment
Area / layout
Local occupancy, ADA accessibility, and any state clinic physical-plant rules
Technical director
State-licensed PT; some states require a designated clinical director
Official & Useful Links
FSBPT — state boards NPPES NPI
Required documents checklist
  • Articles of organization / professional corporation papers for that state
  • EIN from IRS; state tax accounts
  • State PT licences for every treating therapist (compact licence if you use PT Compact)
  • NPI (individual and organizational) if you will bill insurers
  • Malpractice and general-liability insurance
  • Local business licence, occupancy, and fire inspection
  • HIPAA policies, BAA with vendors, and a designated privacy officer
  • Medicare/Medicaid enrollment only if you will bill those programmes (additional survey in some cases)
  • CLIA only if you perform laboratory tests on site
Facility & equipment requirements
  • Licensing is state-by-state. California, New York and Texas have extra corporate-practice and clinic rules.
Staff licensing
  • PTAs must be supervised per that state’s practice act; using the title Physical Therapist without a state licence is illegal.
Licensing steps — in order
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Pick the state, form the allowed entity, licence every PT, then NPI/payers, then open the premises to patients

Important tip

Confirm corporate-practice-of-medicine / PT-ownership rules before a non-PT investor joins. That is a frequent reason banks and payers freeze enrollment.

Guidance only — not a licence. Confirm fees, area minima, and portal names with the official regulator before you apply or spend on fit-out.