I have been hearing from several practitioners who are thinking of raising their rates. This is something that is necessary especially now given inflation. Before you decide to raise your rates, consider the following:
1) Why are you raising your rates? One thing to focus on more than raising rates is getting more patients AND patient visits. Are you doing a good job with scheduling supportive care visits long-term? How many new patients are you getting every week? Are you at your target weekly visits? If you are underperforming in those areas, then raising rates is NOT a good way to make up for it. And maybe it isn't time to raise your rates. Don't raise your rates if your clinic is underperforming. Fix that problem first.
2) Having more patients on the books can = lower increase in rates. If you have 400 patients a month and raise your rates by $5.00, that is not much of a shock to the patient, yet it means $2000 more revenue per month, and $24,000 more per year. When you have more patients, you can have a modest increase in rates and still make up a lot for inflation and increased costs.
3) Similar to #2, is your practice flow working? Are you working out of 1 room? Or are you running multiple rooms and multiple patients an hour? Having an ideal practice flow may mean the ability for a more modest rate increase while getting more bang for your buck.
4) Are your patients able to afford your services now? If patients are balking at coming in more than once per week, is it financial? If you are charging $150 a visit, is it realistic for someone to coming in 2-3 times per week for 3-4 weeks? And even if they start, are they going to finish? Or are they going to drop out of care and not finish their treatment plans? Again, have an efficient practice and you can see more patients, charge a rate they can handle, see them more often and get the revenue you need. It's a win-win. (keep in mind a lot of patients claim they are broke and they aren't, but there is a tipping point and most people are paying out of pocket).
5) Cutting expenses first: Anthony mentioned this in his post above. We get lost with our subscriptions and not shopping around for better rates on things like insurance. It is easy to save $30, $50, or $100 or more per month. Just DON'T cut your subscription to the locals community since it actually makes you money. 🙂
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Arm pain, biceps ( from repetitive stress / vaccum for job, MSK with underline chronic digestive issue and headache )
Topic: arm pain
Presentation : MSK arm start 1 year ago worse with moving and foot external ( + sistemic, DI impacted, headaches)
Scan result : ROM CSPINE LF limited. MT RG deltoid front and lateral , LF supraspinatus and serratus
Treatment : perfusion cervical , activate infra and serratus and upper trap, restore line tecnique biceps
Outcome : ROM C SPINE improved , MT strenght improved on all
Follow up : twice a weeks two weeks, didn’t do manual technique, didn’t give exercise , taped scapula ( leku and protective) made pattient retract scapula ( where can find more content for taping? ) , herbal patch on biceps
Challenges : amount of notes, time management,perfusion on side line ( prop tend to fall) bigger patient and sensitive, can't see muscle moove and patient don’t feel comfortable with muscle jump. Not sure how classify this patient , there is systemic ...
1) after trauma patient reported pain on the RG front arm and neck pain 8on10. MSK presebtation. Did the Scan limited ROM C-SPINE BI 25RG /30LF, limited GH joint RG 100, ST joint RG 30. MT RG suprispunatus and serratus inhibited .Activated with pointer plus infrasp, searratus, wasn’t able to target the levator scalens got activated instead. Did perfusion upper back 20 min, 20 frequency.
Outcome: ROM incresed GH and ST joint not much at C -SPINE.
Challenges to report : find levator scapula point, time Managment.
Follow up : ask patient to return twice a week for 2 weeks. To do list : re-do Scan upper ext., continue perfusion( All visit?) , restore line tecnique on brachialis, other to suggest ?
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