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CBP 118: How to Coach Referral Sources on What to Tell Patients About Your Cash-Based Practice

Apr 30, 2020 | Cash-Based PT Practice Info, Interviews, Marketing, Medicare and Insurance, Podcast, Reimbursement

This week’s highlights episode is taken from an interview with Michael Garrett, MD, an Austin-area “direct primary care” physician with a private medical practice near my own cash-based physical therapy clinic in Austin, Texas. As our interview began, we inadvertently...

CBP 108: How Your Patients Can File Out Of Network Claims in Less Than 1 Minute—with Vatsal Thakkar MD, founder of Reimbursify

Feb 13, 2020 | Cash-Based PT Practice Info, Interviews, Marketing, Medicare and Insurance, Podcast, Reimbursement

Gotta start with a big announcement: This week’s guest, Vatsal Thakkar, has created an incredible tool for cash-based practices, and I couldn’t be more excited to introduce it to you! This app enables patients to submit their own out of network claims for services...

CBP 107: Ideal Cash-Pay Services for Both In-Network and Out-of-Network Practices—with Phil Plisky

Feb 6, 2020 | Cash-Based PT Practice Info, Interviews, Marketing, Medicare and Insurance, Podcast, Reimbursement

In this highlights episode, Phil Plisky explains exactly how an insurance-based clinic can generate lots of cash-based revenue by offering wellness-focused screenings and injury prevention services. He describes precisely how they’ve successfully leveraged screenings...

CBP 106: Escaping Reimbursement Nightmares by Transitioning Out Of Network—Cody Barnett, PT

Jan 27, 2020 | Cash-Based PT Practice Info, Everything Digital, Interviews, Marketing, Medicare and Insurance, Mindset, Podcast, Reimbursement

In 2005, Cody Barnett left his job to open a physical therapy practice because he wanted to be able to provide the kind of care that exceeds patient expectations. For the same reason, he had the intention of structuring the practice as out of network from the start....

CBP 103: How a cash-based practice should answer the question, “Do you take my insurance?”

Jan 9, 2020 | Cash-Based PT Practice Info, Marketing, Medicare and Insurance, Mindset, Podcast, Reimbursement

In this episode, I discuss the rather uncomfortable question often raised by prospective patients—that is, whether you participate with their health insurance plan. Over the years, I’ve found some strategies for making that conversation a whole lot more comfortable....

CBP 101: Transitioning an In-Network Practice to Cash-Based—with Meredith Soelberg and Brooke Mitchell

Dec 16, 2019 | Cash-Based PT Practice Info, Interviews, Medicare and Insurance, Podcast, Reimbursement

In this highlights episode, Meredith Soelberg and Brooke Mitchell describe their experience as employees in an in-network physical therapy practice that had to “weather the storm” of massive reimbursement cuts. The impact of those cuts made it apparent that they’d...

What You Can Do About The 8% Medicare Reimbursement Cuts To Therapy Services

Nov 27, 2019 | Cash-Based PT Practice Info, Medicare and Insurance, Reimbursement

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...

CBP 64: Over 20 Frequently Asked Questions – ANSWERED!

Oct 6, 2017 | Marketing, Medicare and Insurance, Mindset, Podcast, Reimbursement

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...

Clinic Update and Why I’m Already Starting to Look for Another PT

Jan 14, 2016 | Everything Digital, Marketing, Reimbursement

The last couple months have been a wild ride but I’m very happy to report that my new PT’s schedule is staying completely full as we open up more treatment days per week on his schedule. In January, he’s seeing patients 3 days/week as he fully phases out of his...

CBP 29: The Success Secrets of a Booming Cash Practice Partnership – interview with Meredith Soelberg and Brooke Mitchell

Apr 9, 2015 | Cash-Based PT Practice Info, Interviews, Marketing, Medicare and Insurance, Podcast, Reimbursement

Click here to download this episode Get out your notepad cause this episode has an incredible amount of useful insights and lessons from Meredith Soelberg PT, DPT, MBA and Brooke Mitchell PT, DPT, co-owners of Elevate PT & Fitness. Their practice is 100%...

CBP 013: Your Questions Answered! Treatment Packages, Listing Rates Online, Cash Practice Documentation, and Conveying Value

Aug 21, 2014 | Mindset, Podcast, Reimbursement

Click here to download this episode Today’s episode is my first Q&A podcast session where I answer a number of the frequently asked questions I receive via email. More specifically, I answer these cash-based practice questions: Do you offer treatment packages? If...

Cash-Pay PT for Patients Needing A Ton of Treatment

Feb 6, 2014 | Marketing, Mindset, Reimbursement

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...

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CBP 125: How to improve your email deliverability and get better ROI on email marketing—with Prajanay Paul

In this highlights episode, Prajanay Paul of PatientSites.com explains how you can increase the chances that the emails you send out to market your cash-based practice will actually be seen. With the industry average for email deliverability at around 60-70%, it’s likely a whole lot of…

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