Can APTA, Medicare or private insurers actually fix physical therapy reimbursement?
The guys debate PT payment reform, cash-pay practice models, controlling your own pricing, alternative revenue streams and why practice owners may need to stop waiting for someone else to solve their economics.
EPISODE BREAKDOWN
[00:00] – Nothing Works on Payment
[01:12] – Live Tweeting Trouble
[02:22] – Oversharing Sells Tickets
[03:48] – Napster And Trailers Lesson
[05:01] – Payment vs Reimbursement
[06:52] – Reference Committees Explained
[07:56] – Debating Tiny Wording
[09:01] – No Hope For Pay Increases
[11:46] – Why Cash Pay Is Rising
[12:36] – Advocacy Wins or Just Slower Loss
[14:16] – Why Not Unplug From Insurance
[15:41] – Self Pay Cashflow Reality
[17:47] – Mailbox Guy Business Lesson
[20:51] – Monetizing PT Skills
PT owners:
Which side are you on?
A) Advocacy can eventually meaningfully improve PT payment
B) Advocacy matters, but reimbursement will never keep up
C) PTs need to move toward more cash-pay/direct-to-consumer models
D) We need both
And what would you consider a meaningful reimbursement win—3%, 5%, 10%?
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