Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 18 - STATE BOARD OF › Subchapter L - PROSTHETISTS, ORTHOTISTS, PEDORTHISTS AND ORTHOTIC FITTERS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 18.802 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						  subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						  otherwise:
ABC
-American Board for Certification
						  in Orthotics, Prosthetics & Pedorthics, Inc., a Board-approved organization
						  with certification programs accredited by NCCA. The term includes a successor
						  organization.
Accommodative
-Designed with a primary
						  goal of conforming to an individual's anatomy.
BOC
-Board of
						  Certification/Accreditation International, Inc., a Board-approved organization
						  with certification programs accredited by NCCA. The term includes a successor
						  organization.
CAAHEP
-Commission on Accreditation of
						  Allied Health Education Programs, recognized by the Council for Higher
						  Education Accreditation to accredit prosthetic and orthotic education
						  programs.
Custom-designed or custom-fabricated
						  device
-A prosthesis, orthosis or pedorthic device that is designed or
						  fabricated to comprehensive measurements or a patient model or mold for use by
						  a patient in accordance with a prescription and which requires substantial
						  clinical and technical judgment in its design, fabrication and fitting.
Custom-fitted or custom-modified
						  device
-A prefabricated prosthesis, orthosis or pedorthic device to
						  accommodate the patient's measurement that is sized or modified for use by the
						  patient in accordance with a prescription and which requires substantial
						  clinical judgment and substantive alteration in its design for appropriate
						  use.
Hour of continuing education
-At least
						  50 minutes of instruction, including relevant question and answer sessions, in
						  an approved course of continuing education or an equivalent time that an online
						  or correspondence course would be presented live.
ICE
-The Institute for Credentialing
						  Excellence, previously known as the National Organization for Competency
						  Assurance. The term includes a successor organization.
Licensed prescribing practitioner
-A
						  physician, podiatrist, certified registered nurse practitioner or physician
						  assistant, licensed by the practitioner's respective licensing board, who may
						  issue orders and prescriptions to a prosthetist, orthotist, pedorthist or
						  orthotic fitter.
NCCA
-National Commission for
						  Certifying Agencies or its successor.
NCOPE
-National Commission on Orthotic
						  and Prosthetic Education, an organization that approves precertification
						  education courses for pedorthists and accredits residency programs for
						  prosthetists and orthotists.
Orthosis
-A custom-designed,
						  custom-fabricated, custom-fitted or custom-modified device designed to
						  externally provide support, alignment or prevention to the body or a limb for
						  the purposes of correcting or alleviating a neuromuscular or musculoskeletal
						  disease, injury or deformity.
Orthotic fitter
-An individual who is
						  licensed by the Board to practice orthotic fitting.
Orthotic fitter trainee
-An individual
						  who holds an orthotic fitter temporary practice permit issued by the Board and
						  who is authorized to practice in accordance with §
												18.842 (relating to orthotic
						  fitting care experience).
Orthotic fitting
-The fitting,
						  dispensing and adjusting of prefabricated orthotic devices pursuant to a
						  written prescription of a licensed prescribing practitioner.
Orthotic and prosthetic assistant
-An
						  unlicensed individual who, under the direct supervision of the orthotist or
						  prosthetist, assists with patient care tasks assigned by the orthotist or
						  prosthetist.
Orthotic and prosthetic technician
-An
						  unlicensed individual who provides technical support to an orthotist or
						  prosthetist and who may fabricate, assemble, modify and service devices to the
						  specifications of a licensed orthotist or prosthetist.
Orthotics
-The practice of evaluating,
						  measuring, designing, fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting or servicing
						  an orthosis for the correction or alleviation of neuromuscular or
						  musculoskeletal dysfunction, disease, injury or deformity pursuant to a written
						  prescription of a licensed prescribing practitioner.
Orthotist
-An individual who is
						  licensed by the Board to practice orthotics.
Orthotist resident
-An individual who
						  holds a graduate permit issued by the Board and who is authorized to practice
						  in accordance with §§
												18.821 and
						  18.822 (relating to graduate
						  permit; and clinical residency).
Over-the-counter orthoses and pedorthic
						  devices
- Prefabricated, mass-produced items that are prepackaged and
						  do not require professional advice or judgment in either size selection or use,
						  including fabric or elastic supports, corsets, generic arch supports and
						  elastic hose.
Pedorthic device
-
(i) Therapeutic shoes, shoe modifications
						made for therapeutic purposes, partial foot prostheses, foot orthoses and
						below-the-knee pedorthic modalities.
(ii) The term does not include the following:
(A) Nontherapeutic, accommodative inlays and
						nontherapeutic accommodative footwear, regardless of method of
						manufacture.
(B) Unmodified,
						nontherapeutic over-the-counter shoes.
(C) Prefabricated, unmodified or unmodifiable
						foot care and footwear products.