Therapist/Therapy Assistant
Is This “Therapy” To You?
It’s not to us! In fact, depending on the situation and the insurer, it could amount to fraud! Too many corporate chains and physician-owned ventures see therapy as simply a cash cow – you triple, quadruple, or quintuple book (depending on the time of day) with a student and a tech thrown in, and you can easily generate the kind of revenue it would take 3-4 therapists to match.
Making A Difference Where You Currently Work?
While your up to your eyeballs in simultaneous bookings, the patients drag on because you don’t have time to fix them quickly, their benefits are maxed out, or the ones with the high copayments drop out before recovering. Visits pile up, additional authorizations aren’t approved even though the patient isn’t better, and you feel…well, not very fulfilled! Not why you got into therapy?
Are You Putting Your Career At Risk?
If you’re booked with multiple patients, understand this: your employer is usually billing the therapy you provide as if it were performed one-on-one, even though it wasn’t. Can you be liable for this? Well, sometimes. While many insurance plans aren’t cracking the whip on this sort of practice, Medicare and Workers Compensation plans have been known to set some examples from time to time. Don’t let it be you!
One-on-One Therapy? Really?
Yes! We’ve found that while you’re suffering through multiple simultaneous bookings, patients are no-showing more often, and flooding in at crunch times – preventing you from performing all of the therapeutic interventions you’d planned.
You’ll find your time with each patient will move quickly, once you’re fully engaged with just that patient – doing everything in your power to get him back in action. While average visits go down, average reimbursement goes up because the proportion of new evaluations is higher. It works out in the long run.
Doing what’s best for the patient is doing what’s best for the business.
By spreading the schedule, holding patients accountable for attendance, providing plenty of hands on treatment, education, and attention to detail, we’ve found that we can hold the profitability line while still performing meaningful treatment.
Does Chasing the Almighty Dollar Have You Chasing Your Tail?
You might be following the sometimes crazy salaries out there, or moving from practice to practice, just looking for some stability and a job you can feel good about. Your search is over! Contact us today at (972) 939-6501 or fax us your resume at (866)451-0585 and request an interview. We look forward to meeting you soon!
