Instead of bringing physical therapy customers to your clinic, today’s expert brings physical therapy direct to consumers in their own home. Benjamin Gold, PT, MCMT owns HPTNYC a boutique home physical therapy service in Manhattan and is currently working on building a similar model in Australia. From day one, the clinic has been cash-based. He’s [...]

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Bringing Physical Therapy Direct to Customers

The current healthcare climate has created an uncertainty for many physical therapists and other health care professionals.  Dr. Kenneth L. Miller, PT, DPT, MA, GCS, CEEAA  recently shared his thoughts on physical therapy, home health care and potential impact of proposed legislation on your clinic. Dr. Miller is a physical therapist and educator with more [...]

An Inside Look at Home Health Care & Physical Therapy

We’re thrilled to have Chad Madden, MSPT, successful private practice clinic owner at Madden Physical Therapy join us for a second podcast.  Over the years, Madden has implemented a number of things to enhance his clinic’s growth and is now sharing that information in a bootcamp designed for physical therapists and their staff. Attendees at the upcoming [...]

Discover Marketing Systems Proven to Increase Your New Patient Flow

Wonder how to compete against corporate giants?  Today’s guest, Chad Madden, MSPT, is a successful private practice clinic owner, Madden Physical Therapy. His clinic is located in a very competitive environment.  His clinic averages over 500 visits a week and regularly utilizes direct response marketing He’s launched a resource for to help other private practices [...]

Powerful Resource for Running a Successful Private Practice Physical Therapy Clinic

Whether you currently run a cash-based practice or are interested in adding cash-based services to your practice, but are confused about the laws regarding self-payment from Medicare patients, then this podcast is for you. This week’s expert will help you navigate the many rules and regulations of Medicare.  In his new book, Medicare and Cash-Pay [...]

Medicare and Cash-Pay Physical Therapy

A standard hammer like those found at your local hardware store is commonly used to help strengthen forearm pronation and supination. But, a standard hammer is limited in the way it allows a patient to progress. Today’s expert practices in Green Bay Wisconsin and is the inventor of a new tool for physical therapists. Jonathon [...]

A New Tool Designed to Address Pronation and Supination

Decreasing reimbursements, lack of resources and costly compliance systems are just a few of the challenges faced by private practice physical therapy clinics.  Today’s expert, Mike Graves is a physical therapist and one of the Managing Partners of Fyzical Therapy and Balance Centers. He shares some of the unique aspects of their franchise and the benefits it provides [...]

Are you Ready to Get Fyzical?

According to AARP, one of the biggest fears people have as they age is losing mental capacity. Today’s expert has developed a proactive program that provides a positive impact on brain health. Lynn Steffes, PT, DPT of Steffes & Associates Consulting Group and BrainyEX recently shared details about cognitive health and how physical therapists can [...]

Cognitive Health Program Ideal for Physical Therapists

The third party payer system poses a variety of challenges for physical therapy clinic owners.  From the cost of collecting payments to the difficulty of negotiating rates with insurance companies the traditional third party payer system can impact the bottom line of a clinic which has made a cash-based practice appealing to many physical therapy [...]

Another Cash-Based Physical Therapy Success Story

The landscape of health care is constantly changing and direct access to physical therapy is providing new opportunities to physical therapists. Today’s expert Lisa Kemp, DPT, President and Clinical Director at Advantage Physical Therapy Associates shares why she is so optimistic about the future. She credits direct access for providing her clinic with the opportunity [...]

Optimistic Outlook for Physical Therapy

A brand as defined by the American Marketing Association is a “name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of other sellers.” Today’s expert, Dr. Ben Fung is a physical therapist that [...]

Why Physical Therapy Branding Matters

We’ve had a few podcasts focused on the importance of providing outstanding customer service. This week’s podcast features a tool designed to help you do just that. James Lomuscio, CEO & Co-founder of Hability, a patient relationship management system shares how the system helps you improve customer communication, engagement and retention.  Hability was designed to [...]

Physical Therapy System Helps Provide Effective and Consistent Customer Communication

Words matter. That’s why today’s guest advocates for using the term consumer over patient when referring to clients at your clinic. In his second podcast with PT Talker,   Jerry Durham, PT, Principal of San Francisco Sport and Spine Physical Therapy,  shares why customer service is so important at your clinic. He stresses that consumers have [...]

Physical Therapy is all about Serving Consumers (Not Just Patients)

It’s a great time to be a physical therapist. Despite lower reimbursement rates faced by many physical therapists, today’s expert,  Jerry Durham, PT, Principal of San Francisco Sport and Spine Physical Therapy,  shares why he he’s so excited about the future of physical therapy in the first of two podcasts. His clinic is currently in [...]

Why it’s an Exciting Time to be a Physical Therapist

In a constantly changing environment, physical therapists are looking at new ways to increase their practice. Today’s expert shares his solution to surviving in a challenging physical therapy climate. Russ Certo, PT and owner of Grand Island Physical Therapy founded the medically oriented gym (MOG) by combining a medically focused fitness center with his private [...]