This month, CMS came down with its final ruling on the Physician Fee Schedule, which is going to cut Medicare reimbursements for physical therapy services by 8% in 2021. This was in no way a surprise, even though the APTA called it a “surprising decision.” It’s not...
After leaving a career in finance where he was “pretty miserable,” Mike Braitsch decided to start anew and pursue his passion for physical therapy. During his education at UT Southwestern, he combined his knowledge in PT and a background in martial arts to put...
When I produce my videos and podcasts, I always try to answer the questions I hear the most in my mastermind or during conferences. A few weeks ago, I did something a little different and asked my followers for cash-practice questions via a FB Live Q&A session....
Maury Hayashida, DPT, has achieved what a great deal of established practice owners are looking to do … create a cash-based practice alongside his insurance-based practice AND add cash-pay services to his insurance based practice. The goal is certainly not always to...
This episode is a lengthy Q&A full of questions sent in after I presented a webinar with WebPT called “Cashing in on Private Pay: The PT’s Guide to Out of Network.” We crammed a ton into that webinar and there were such great questions that we didn’t get to answer...
Big news! This podcast has hit 200k downloads—Thank you so much for getting it there. I couldn’t have done it without your support! Today’s interview is with Jamey Schrier, out-of-network practice owner, PT business coach, and author of The Automated Practice: Success...
Some cash-based practices, like my physical therapy clinic in Austin, aren’t billing out-of-network (OON) on behalf of their cash-paying patients who have insurance coverage. However, many practices do offer this service. Especially those that have transitioned...
Sarah King DPT of Invigorate Physical Therapy first heard about the “cash-based business model” when she came across this podcast about 2 years ago. Just 6 months later she had started her cash-based neuro practice … which had a waiting list within a year and a half!...
I am the patient of an amazing manual therapist who is winding down her private practice and introducing me to her referral sources, asking them to start sending me patients rather than her. (I know, pretty amazing!) Anyhow, an orthopedist replied to her email...
After 5 years of research and a year of writing like a madman, the Medicare and Cash-Pay Physical Therapy guidebook is finally available! Click on the book below to see the long list of everything you will learn in this truly comprehensive guide (for any type of PT...
The second half of the Medicare and Cash-Pay PT eBook is a 20+ page Q&A section where I answer all the most common (and obscure) questions I receive on this topic… As a little teaser for the book, and because I love my audience, today I’m giving the answer...
If you are interested in creating cash-based revenue for your physical therapy practice, but confused about the laws on taking self-payment from Medicare beneficiaries, then this episode is for you. Whether you are a: veteran practice owner who participates with...
