CASH-Based Practice Blog
Is Being a Non-Participating Medicare Provider Worth It?
I’ve been getting a few similar questions about the pros and cons of being a Non-Participating Provider with Medicare, and would like to address them here. You can see this post on Medicare for details on what that means if you are not familiar, but just to quickly...
Cash-Pay PT for Patients Needing A Ton of Treatment
Greetings from CSM 2014 in Las Vegas! It has been a blast so far! One of the commenters on my last post brought up some very good questions, and I felt that one deserved its own blog post: A question that often comes up when I talk about a cash based system is “what...
Stop Trying to Convince People to Come to Your Cash-Based Practice
First, a bit of personal news … I got engaged! And now for the post … Spoiler alert: this is gonna be one that many may disagree with, and very rightfully so. The first conversation that a prospective patient has with whoever is answering the phone at your practice is...
A Sure Way to Fail in the Cash-Based Business Model
It’s 2014! Holy Crap! In some ways I feel like it’s only been a few years since we said goodbye to the 90’s. A lot has changed in the past 14 years, and though there are certainly some “early adopters” out there in the cash-based practice model, it’s a relatively new...
Lessons Learned in 2013
I’m finishing the year in warm sunny Adelaide, Australia … visiting my family down here. What a year this has been! Certainly my biggest year financially since I raised my rates from $120 to $150/session, and my schedule didn’t slow down. This was also a year of...
How Would You Market a Cash-Based PEDIATRIC practice?
My best blog post ideas often come from the questions I receive via email, and a very common question is whether or not the cash-based business model is applicable and viable in PT subspecialties other than outpatient orthopedics. I recently received just such a...
I’m Thankful For …
I'm in charge of making the dressing and sweet potatoes today, but before I dive into that, I want to list a few things that I'm thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day… as they relate to my physical therapy practice and the cash-based business model 🙂 I'm thankful...
Lessons Learned at PPS 2013
My experience at the Private Practice Section annual conference this year was quite different from last year, primarily because I was a presenter at this year's conference. As opposed to attending a lot of sessions and consuming information from the speakers, I spent...
A Vital Mindset Shift when Transitioning Out-of-Network
Happy Halloween everyone. I’m going to dive into something I’ve written about before but seems to be such an important topic, I’ll continue to revisit it many times. It can be either a prevalent roadblock or a path-clearing guide to cash-based success depending on...
A Successful CASH Physical Therapy Practice Since 1996!
Robert Cohen M.A., P.T. has had a successful, 100% cash-based physical therapy practice since 1996 and has agreed to share the insights he has gained about the private-pay business model over the past two decades. I’m guessing there are other cash practice owners who...
