Cash Therapy Practice

If you're anything like me you might struggle with trying to keep up during the chaos of healthcarereform. You could be seeing more patients but doubting if you're making any difference in their lives before their allotment of visits is over. You might find yourself working harder but enjoying it less.You can sense that competition has increased and you have to work harder to get referrals. It seems like everybody is doing therapy in one form or another and you having to fight harder to defend your professional value in a crowded marketplace.You may feel like just another gear in a gigantic corporate therapy factory that churns out patients with an over emphasis on profits.Maybe you areseeking an alternative to business as usual. Perhaps you want to be an entrepreneur and own your ownpractice but have no idea how to get started.Perhaps you've read a few books on entrepreneurship and follow a couple of blogs about successful therapy practices. You want to give your practice idea a try but you are wondering where to start or you think you are doing something wrong but can't put your finger on it.Most of the books on starting your own practice make the process overly complicated and paralyze therapists from taking any action at all. This book is the proven approach that all the top cash therapy business owners used to build their practices.

After seeing 43 patients in just one day as a physical therapy student, Aaron LeBauer knew he could not treat patients effectively in the insurance model. He opened his 100% cash-based clinic, LeBauer Physical Therapy, the day he graduated with his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. He did this so he could treat patients the way he knew they needed to be cared for, not the way the insurance companies dictated. Everyone he told about his plan to charge $100 or more per visit for physical therapy scoffed, rolled their eyes in disbelief, said it was impossible or that no patient would ever pay more than their copay for physical therapy. Over the next decade, LeBauer built his successful physical therapy clinic with his wife in Greensboro, NC. Not only has the clinic had a waiting list, but it has also employed an additional therapist and started offering wellness services. All the while, LeBauer still has plenty of time off to travel with his family.

This basic handbook on how to start up a private physical therapy practice is a hands-on guide for any physical therapist who is contemplating or preparing to go out on his/her own. Starting & Managing Your Own Physical Therapy Practice is a one-of-a-kind guide that offers insight into the how's, what's, and where's of private business and gives the practitioner enough information and insight to veer him/her in the proper direction. This book is a guide map, a tool developed to open your eyes to what is necessary to open and run your own, successful practice.

This step-by-step guide on setting up own complementary health care practice, covers every aspect of starting up a new practice, taking into account the wide range of practice requirements from the very simple (e.g. in therapist's own home) to the more ambitious (e.g. buying premises from which to set up a clinic). It addresses all the legal requirements, detailed and precise financial calculations, and the mechanics of how the therapist goes about making their vision a reality. Day-to-day aspects that need to be considered when the practice is up and running are covered. Gives clear advice on legal and financial requirements, the production of a marketing strategy and the presentation of the precise financial calculations required for a business plan, with worked examples Includes detailed information on how to write a business plan, with a numerically linked example Covers day-to-day aspects of running a practice International in its approach, the book contains extensive lists of useful web addresses for access to up-to-the-minute information Financial templates are supplied as appendices The book offers key advice for all therapists - chiropractors, osteopaths, massage therapists and complementary therapists - and is suitable for undergraduates, newly qualified practitioners and experienced practitioners looking to either start up or develop and grow their practice.

Clinical psychology is a quickly growing profession, yet it is a challenging one: the preparation is arduous, the training is highly selective, and the results – an established and financially successful practice – are not easy to achieve. This book explains how to prepare for and surmount all of the hurdles presented to those who hope to eventually develop a lucrative and rewarding practice in clinical psychology. It is the first of its kind to focus primarily on financial success, though it does also look at the personal stresses and rewards of the profession. The author provides tips from his own experience and from other financially successful private practice psychologists and offers business techniques and pointers that are not explained in training programs. Undergraduate students contemplating a career in psychology will find advice on preparing for the GRE, applying to graduate schools, and getting involved in research and clinical work. For graduate students, an overview of a graduate clinical psychology program, preparing and completing a dissertation, and gaining experience in psychological testing are provided. Chapters then focus on how to build and manage a private practice, the best ways to manage personal and business finances, and how to practice good self-care. Additionally, the book includes a chapter by an expert on student-loan repayment that examines how to best work through the process of paying back student loans while building a practice.

TRAPPED. Many therapists and other medical professionals feel caught in the new reality of declining referrals from traditional sources and reduced co-pays. What are the options in the new healthcare economy? In On Fire: Ignite Your Passion with a Cash Therapy Practice, Paul Potter, PT, provides an honest discussion and practical direction to help providers chart a new course. The book includes a candid evaluation of the changing environment and the alternatives available for the future. He discusses direct access to clients and what newly empowered healthcare consumers expect, and are willing to pay for. On Fire goes beyond the typical "copy my model of success" approach, though it does include several examples from successful cash-based practices. The book instead focuses on helping therapists discover their own unique calling and ideal clients. It recognizes that the future won't be shaped by one-size-fits-all business models. To plan your journey I've created a four-part roadmap to walk you through the stages of a small business startup. These aren't the stages that your practice will automatically go through. They are the stages that your business should go through for the best opportunity for success. This book combines the wisdom of the past with new entrepreneurial strategies to prepare you for the challenges of building a profitable business. The difference between a successful practice and a failed one is clarity on your destination, having a sense of direction and taking the next step. This book lays out the four stages to building a successful practice including road signs to look for and detours to avoid. This book will spark inspiration, ingenuity and inventiveness in every therapist who reads it. If you yearn to rekindle the fire for your therapy career and learn about the new business of therapy, read this book.

The Clinical Practice of Equine-Assisted Therapy bridges theory, research, and practical methods to fill a rapidly developing gap for physical, occupational, speech, and mental health professionals interested in incorporating horses in therapy. Extensively researched and citing over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, it examines core issues such as terminology, scope of practice, competency recommendations, horse care ethics, and clinical practice considerations. This book is an essential resource for professionals who wish to use a best-practices approach to equine-assisted therapy.

The belief that you need to market to doctors or remain trapped inside of the insurance system is built into the culture of the physical therapy profession. Building relationships with doctors is idealized and having more of them refer to you is how you are allowed to believe is the only way to grow a private practice. But what if there was another way? What if it could be easier than having to relentlessly suck up to the doctors, baking cakes and cookies in exchange for patients? And what if there was an alternative to accepting peanuts from insurance companies who pay barely enough to keep the doors open - never mind take home a profit? This book is that alternative and Paul Gough - one of the worlds first physical therapists to scale a successful cash pay clinic beyond one location - shares with you his exact system for attracting more cash pay patients, making more profit - and still getting home by 5pm each night. Here's just some of what you will learn in this book:- How to attract patients happy to pay in CASH (bye-bye insurance headaches)- How to get floods of new patients - even if you can't get referrals from doctors - How to 10 X your clinic PROFIT using an easy to copy direct marketing system - How to add at least $100k in cash pay revenue (in the next 12 months)- Where to find cash pay patients - and without needing a huge marketing budget