The Cash-Based Practice Podcast

This podcast episode is an interview with Ben Gold PT of Home Physical Therapy New York City . He has been working full time in his cash-based practice for over 3 years now and he has 3 independent contractor Physical Therapists currently working for him. All patients are treated in the comfort and convenience of their own home or office throughout New York City. He has done extremely well at carv...

Both before and after June 2012, when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (aka: Obamacare), I have received numerous questions surrounding this topic. This episode is all about my thoughts and predictions regarding Obamacare and its likely effect on out-of-network clinics and the cash-based business model as a whole. In this episode, you'll learn about: Why I...

Click here to download this episode This episode is part 2 of my interview of Jerry Durham, co-owner of San Francisco Sport and Spine Physical Therapy who transitioned his 3-clinic practice completely out of network with all 3 rd Party payors except Medicare. This part of our interview dives into the details of the initial phone conversation with a prospective patient when your clinic is not in ne...

Click here to download this episode This episode is part 1 of my interview of Jerry Durham, co-owner of  San Francisco Sport and Spine Physical Therapy who transitioned his 3-clinic practice completely out of network with all 3rd-Party payors except Medicare. We cover a wide variety of topics surrounding the transition out-of-network. More specifically… In this episode, you'll learn about: How Jer...

Click here to download this episode In this episode, you'll learn about: How Ann's choice of office space has helped produce cash-based referrals The type of writing and blogging Ann has done to generate new business and how she has developed relationships with publications How Ann has been successful in developing physician referral relationships, even with physicians who own their own PT clinic!...

Click here to download this episode Just a couple years out of PT school, classmates Austin Woods PT, DPT, and Paul Killoren PT, DPT, CSCS partnered up to start a cash-based private practice. In this interview they discuss what led them into this business model, how they structured the partnership, and how they very quickly filled their schedules with self-pay patients. In this episode, you'll lea...

Click here to download this episode Today's podcast episode is with Cash-Based Practice Owner, Carlos Berio PT, DPT, MS, CSCS, CMTPT. He employs a staff physical therapist, a personal trainer, and an office administrator. He shares multiple lessons he's learned along the way and the key factors to his success so far.   In this episode, you'll learn about: How Carlos got his start in the cash-pay r...

In this episode, I interview Sara Squires Davis, a physical therapist who started her cash-based practice in Bethesda, Maryland about a year ago. I would link to her website, but at the time of this writing she has not yet created a website for her practice… she's been too busy treating patients who pay her $250/eval and $175 for follow up treatment sessions! She has been immediately successful in...

Though treating a wide variety of issues and injuries for a wide variety of people has worked well for many cash practices (including mine), focusing on a niche market can be a great way to get a new practice going strong or develop a new segment of business for your existing practice. This is one of those topics and podcasts episodes that really applies to any type of physical therapy practice, c...

Ron Miller of Pursuit Physical Therapy , a cash-based PT practice in Orlando FL, joined me for a great interview about his new practice. Ron was one of the first to reach out and really start interacting with me online after I started this website. Then about a year ago he gave me the exciting news he was making the leap into private practice, and that his practice would be 100% cash-based! So I'm...

Yep! I started a podcast on the cash-based business model! I've wanted to do this for a very long time, but it has been tough to add it to an already full schedule at the clinic. I've already recorded a few of them, and I'm having a blast with it. My first interview with a cash-practice owner will be published tomorrow, but due to technical requirements I needed to publish the intro episode on its...