This is my 50th post since starting this website in February of 2011. How time flies! The traffic for this site is growing quickly and I imagine that many new visitors have not seen much of my earlier content. For that reason, I’m using my 50th post to highlight 5 of...
It has been over five years since I started my cash-based practice in Austin and had to figure out the regulations on taking private-payment from Medicare beneficiaries. I originally published the article below about three years ago, and this is an editor’s...
I was recently interviewed by a doctoral student on cash-based PT practice sustainability and about my business model in general. Here is the second part of that interview … What financial methods did you take in order to be able to open your own private...
I was recently interviewed by a doctoral student on cash-based PT practice sustainability and about the business model for my private-pay practice in general. I’ll be splitting the interview into two parts because the answer to the first question ended up being so...
I’m really excited to publish this interview of fellow Private Pay PT practice owner, Ann Wendel PT, ATC, CMTPT of Prana Physical Therapy. She took the time to give really in-depth answers to some of the most common questions I’m asked by PTs looking to start/convert...
One of the most common, and important, questions I am asked is some variation of: “Can I accept out-of-pocket payments from a Medicare patient?” The very short answer to this is: “it depends.” Working with Medicare patients on a Private-pay Basis Some Physical...
In Dec 2010, when I was asked how I was able to quickly create a successful cash-based physical therapy practice, I had no idea that the answer would turn into an ever-growing website and a 65 page cash-practice guidebook. The entire process took much longer than I...
I started my Cash-Based PT practice in Austin about 1 ½ years ago, and though it was a lot of hard work to get the ball rolling, I’ve never been so happy to be a Physical Therapist. When you remove the red tape and headaches of the Insurance and Medicare systems, an...
After my last post, I had some follow up questions about the specifics of the self-claim receipts I provide my patients. Given that my treatments are all one hour long with the majority of the time dedicated to Manual Therapy and always at least a review of the HEP,...
As reimbursements drop and the ability for traditional physical therapy practices to provide quality individualized care (while maintaining profit margins) is further strained, these issues are becoming better known to the general public. Case in point: NPR just ran a...
Congress Cuts Rehab, Special Education Services in 2-Week Continuing Resolution A little something new from the APTA … I get the feeling this kind of news will be more and more common in the future: “In passing a 2-week “stop gap” continuing...
