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When I worked for the hospital, we had staff meetings about once a month. Those “meetings” usually comprised of a vendor coming in and giving…
Physical Therapy Practice: How important is team training?
Most physical therapists know nothing about billing, insurance, claims, or any of that. We know how to treat patients and educate them on prevention of…
Physical Therapy Practice: Pros and Cons to Bringing Your Billing In-House
The number one question and concern of every physical and occupational therapy practice owner is always going to be “how can we bring in more new…
Physical Therapy Practice: 3 Great Ways to Duplicate Your Patients
I think one of the biggest struggles we have as therapists is making sure that our patients are doing what they need (or need not)…
Physical Therapy Practice: How to get your patients more compliant with their HOME PROGRAM
Do you know what your profit or loss is at any given moment during each business day? Some of you may not want to know. …
Physical Therapy Practice: How to Calculate Profit & Loss
Streamlining your physical or occupational therapy practice should be the aim of every practice owner. But knowing exactly what to do in order to make…
Physical Therapy Practice: Can your billing process be easier?
With more and more hoops to jump and documentation to complete for insurance companies, it’s almost making it not even worth it to see patients…
Physical Therapy Practice: 5 Tips for Increasing Revenue
When you first make that leap of faith into the private practice PT arena, you start to realize that there is A LOT you don’t…
Physical Therapy Practice: 3 tips to becoming credentialed with insurance companies
How many physical therapy practices out there are still using paper charts? I totally get it; it’s within our comfort zone, it seems easy to…
Physical Therapy Practice: A clinician’s perspective on EMR vs paper
Everyone knows that the person you choose to be at your front desk is the first impression for your company. Who you select for this…
Physical Therapy Practice: 5 tips for finding the best receptionist
When my husband and I opened our first physical therapy practice in 2009, I thought creating an equipment budget was essential to open up for…
Is equipment really necessary when opening a private practice?
As a physical therapist trying to make it in a cut-throat market, between the insurance companies and the competition of the hospitals, my original passion…
Physical Therapy Practice: Empowering Physical Therapist’s to venture out on their own
If you’re starting a new practice, or looking for a way to set yourself up for more referrals, targeting a niche market is super important.…
Physical Therapy Practice: Creating a Niche Practice
When I first opened my practice, I was completely naive to the fact that patients wouldn’t just flock to me because I was a good,…
3 Top Ways to Bring in New Patient Referrals
So you’ve gotten to the point where your practice is getting busier and busier, and you as the practice owner can no longer treat all…
3 Tips for Hiring a staff Physical Therapist
Starting a private practice in physical therapy is very time constraining. In physical therapy, unlike some of the other medical professions, we spend 30-60 minutes with…
Valuing Your Time as a Practice Owner