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The money side in plain English.

Read about starting a PT practice, tracking its money, or building income as a PTA. Use the free calculators to check your own rates.

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Cash-visit pricing calculator

A free tool for physical therapists: what to charge for cash home visits, and your hourly rate before taxes, after drive time and costs, next to a PRN shift.

PRN rate calculator

A free tool for PTAs and PTs: does PRN or contract work pay more than your W-2 job once you count the extra self-employment tax, mileage, and costs? Type your numbers and see, before income tax.

The money side

For clinic owners. Reading what your practice actually collects.

The five numbers every clinic owner should read monthly

Read five monthly figures to see your cash, unpaid balances, and payment timing.

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Your EMR says you got paid. Your bank might disagree.

Charged is a promise. Collected is the fact. Why the two drift apart in a practice, and a simple way to measure the gap in one afternoon.

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Starting on the side

For employed PTs building a cash practice of their own.

How to see cash patients on the side as an employed PT

The order of operations, starting from the business setup that eventually leads to your first paid visit.

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Opening your own clinic

For first-time owners standing up a practice.

What to do first when you open a PT practice

From an empty entity to your first paid claim. The sequence first-time owners most often get wrong.

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The PTA path

For PTAs building income of their own.

Three routes to your own income as a PTA

The pay tops out, and the advice is "go back to school." Three routes that build on the license you already hold instead.

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