5 Tips for Balancing Life and Owning a Physical Therapy Practice
Let’s face it, owning and operating a clinic is not easy and you start to realize how important your time becomes. Now more than ever. If you…
The Things You Don’t Know When Starting a Physical Therapy Practice
After working with some start-ups using HENO in the last few months, it made me reminess about our early days starting up Hohman Rehab and Sports Therapy in…
3 Tips to Help Your Physical Therapy Business
Most people could use help making improvements to their business. It’s frustrating spending time, money and energy on ideas that don’t work. Nothing is worse than wasted…
3 Reasons for Early Discharge from Physical Therapy
I think that a lot of new PT and OT clinics just starting out think that discharging a patient before they’re 100% ready is not ideal; they…
8 Tips to Increase Patient Volume at Your PT or OT Practice
Attracting more patients into your physical or occupational therapy practice is usually at the top of the practice owner’s mind at all times. With a new start-up,…
5 Ways to Complete Physical Therapy Documentation Faster
When you ask any therapist what they dislike the most about their job, the answer is always the same. The paperwork. Unfortunately with such stringent insurance requirements…
How to Avoid the Dreaded Superbill with Physical Therapy Billing Software
Running a medical practice isn’t quite as easy as seeing a patient and collecting their co-pays. I wish. The science of billing and creating a patient statement…
Should You Have a PT Patient No-Show or Cancellation Policy?
Let’s face it, as staff physical therapists usually rejoice over a last minute cancel or no-show. This means they now have down time to get caught up…
5 Physical Therapy Social Media Best Practices You Should Know
Let’s face it, marketing is not our strong suits as physical therapists. They don’t teach many marketing skills and tactics in school, at least they didn’t 10…
Physical Therapy Practice: Training new hires
Turn-over in a physical therapy practice is going to happen, no matter how great of an employer you think you are! Take each turnover position as a…
Creating Physical Therapy Discharge Programs to Make the Process Easier
We’ve all had them. Multiple times. That one patient that becomes your friend, your buddy; inside the clinic only of course. When we see they’re on our…
4 Tips for Adjusting to the New Physical Therapy CPT Codes
So just when things couldn’t get any more time consuming and confusing, from PQRS to G-codes and more, Medicare has changed the coding for how an evaluation…
Physical Therapy Practice: Bring on 2017!
When the new year comes, everyone always asks what your resolutions are. It may be to lose weight, to exercise more, or to spend more time with…
How to Improve the PT Patient Discharge Process
What can really set your practice apart from any other is how you discharge your patients. Believe it or not, that can be a really crucial part…
Physical Therapy Practice: To close or not during the holidays?
Let’s face it. Most employees don’t want to work around the holidays. They want to spend time with their friends and family and have a chance to…
Physical Therapy Practice: 3 mistakes NOT to make during an evaluation
Seeing a patient for the very first time for a physical or occupational therapy evaluation can make or break your relationship with them. Believe it or not,…
Physical Therapy Practice: Using Medical Software to your benefit
Whether you are a physical therapy practice, an occupation therapy practice, a physicians group, a home health agency and on and on, it is important to know…
Physical Therapy Practice: 5 tips to make patients more independent at home after they are discharged.
You did it! You have carved out the time from your schedule, you faithfully attended your therapy sessions, you kept up with your home exercises, and you…
Physical Therapy Practice: How cancels can hurt :/
We all know that when a patient cancels their appointment at the last minute, or no shows completely, it hurts. But do you know just how much…
Physical Therapy Practice: Getting your PT patients excited about coming to therapy!
Let’s admit it! Sometimes you just do not want to come to therapy. You’re tired. Your schedule is jam-packed. You know it might ask you to do…
Physical Therapy Practice: Creating a Positive Patient Environment
Don’t you wish that every patient that walked through your doors would be motivated, excited and driven to succeed with the plan of care that you set…
Physical Therapy Practice: How important is team training?
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 us free…
Physical Therapy Practice: Pros and Cons to Bringing Your Billing In-House
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 re-occurance. Opening…
Physical Therapy Practice: 3 Great Ways to Duplicate Your Patients
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 patients”? There…
Physical Therapy Practice: How to get your patients more compliant with their HOME PROGRAM
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) to do…
Physical Therapy Practice: How to Calculate Profit & Loss
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. You may…
Physical Therapy Practice: Can your billing process be easier?
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 this happen…
Physical Therapy Practice: 5 Tips for Increasing Revenue
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 under certain…
Physical Therapy Practice: 3 tips to becoming credentialed with insurance companies
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 know anything…
Physical Therapy Practice: A clinician’s perspective on EMR versus paper
How many physical therapy practices out there are still using paper charts, and curious about EMR versus paper? I totally get it; it’s within our comfort zone,…
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