“Gamification” involves creating a fun experience for those around you. Everybody likes a good game! Learn how to enhance your company culture by investing in the happiness of your patients and staff through games and contests. Tune in for some great ideas, and Happy Holidays!

• Keep productivity high 
• Create a game that your staff AND patients can participate in 
• Make your clinic more social 
• Infuse patients into your company culture 

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Let’s dive into a fresh, new topic that we’ve never talked about on the podcast before… Ergonomics! We’re going to tackle it through the lens of diversifying and increasing revenue streams in your private practice. This week, we interview a lovely guest on the topic, Darcie Jaremey from ErgonomicsHelp.

• Provide the ultimate employee experience 
• You need to promote your services 
• Add ways to provide value 
• Stand out in your community 

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In case you missed their presentation at PPS 2021, we interviewed Marla Ranieri, DPT from BetterHealthcare to discuss the benefits of their platform and how it enables you to provide the best care as a private practice in this digital world. We got amazing feedback from owners all over the country from this conversation, so we wanted to bring this topic to our podcast audience! Take control of your patient experience using this proven technology. 

• Evolve from the old school form fill 
• Up your conversion rate 
• Don’t ignore holes in your practice operations 
• Don’t commit “treason” on your employees 
• Digitize your outreach
• Step into business autonomy 

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Welcome to December! The key to any great leader’s success is a display of gratitude. Do you go to work every day ready to help others? Let’s take a step back and evaluate how we, as private practice owners, can best practice gratitude this holiday season (and all year round!)

• Get education in advance of the challenges 
• List what you’re grateful for 
• Address people first, systems second, standards third  
• Be a community leader 
• Ask about personal and professional goals during interview process 

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Let’s move into part 2 of the Big Boom that we’ve experienced after PPS 2021. We talked to some people who may have been holding themselves back from making the right decisions due to being risk-averse. You have to get back to your purpose and ideal scene in private practice. Let’s step into the new paradigm and take an honest look at what’s coming in physical therapy private practice. 

• Don’t forget the “work” in work-life balance 
• Let’s collaborate, not compete 
• (Brian mentions a Martha, he meant Marla Ranieri from BetterHealthcare)
• Rethink location/environment 
• Integrate a team approach

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As we’re coming off of PPS 2021, we have all of the questions and concerns that we heard from practice owners that we connected with fresh in our minds. Let’s address them and learn how to make a difference in your practice. 2019 isn’t coming back, it’s time for a reset. Are you ready for 2022?

• Be the practice owner that happens to be a physical therapist, not the other way around 
• Tighten down on your staff training 
• Avoid micromanagement 
• Reevaluate your patient schedule for productivity 
• Outsource non-therapy functions 
• Know how to measure what’s working 

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Here we are at the APTA’s Private Practice Section annual conference in Dallas, Texas! We have a quick podcast for you straight from PPS 2021 sharing our excitement to be here, all the great ways we’ll be participating and the importance of being a member of this incredible community. If you’re here at PPS, come connect with MEG at one of our various events, and if not, then you can follow along with us on social media! 

• Get excited for all the ways we’ll be engaging at PPS 2021:
  • In the Exhibition Hall at PPS: Booth #817 (we’ll be doing a major prize giveaway!)
  • Thurs 11/11 at 2:30pm Session with BetterHealthcare: “Are You Sitting on a Data Gold Mine?”
  • Thurs 11/11 at 6:30pm MEG’s Cocktail Mixer 
  • Friday 11/12 at 1pm Sponsored Session Workshop “Solve Your PT Business Challenges in 30 Minutes”
• We can’t keep practicing like it’s 2019 
• Learn innovative and efficient strategies
• We need a strong PT community right now
• Invest time and money into attending conferences

Have you been struggling to hire staff recently? Let’s take a deeper look at the problem, and how to solve it. In this episode we pull data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to share the bigger picture of what is happening and why (additional resources shared below). We have to acknowledge the culture shift that we’ve seen post pandemic and evaluate what is going on in our labor market today. 

• You need to change your recruiting approach 
• Offer personal and professional growth opportunities 
• Know which type of therapist you’re messaging to 
• Promote fun and gamification in your clinic 
• Retain your staff with an LMS (Learning Management System) 
• If you’re not willing to look, you’re not willing to change

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With Halloween right around the corner, we want to help reduce the fear of the nightmare that follows a Compliance violation. These are scary and threaten to sink a small practice, even if the violation was completely by accident. Don’t be at the mercy of what you don’t know - learn how to stay on top of the regulations to protect yourself in private practice! 

• Your Compliance program must be customized per practice 
• Defend yourself as a small business owner 
• Contact Vikram at PT Wired for app
• Check your EMR system 
• Be prepared for anything 

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This week we are so excited to invite Jason Waz, PT from NeuPTTech back to our podcast. First and foremost a private practice owner, Jason was the first one to trial and test the Neubie E-Stim technology. Not only does this tech change lives in a big way, but it will set your practice way out from the crowd. Don’t keep running your practice like it’s the 1990’s!  

• The biggest challenge right now is staffing; The second biggest is having an office differentiator 
• Why is it important to scale in private practice?  
• You need a solid structure (people need stability) 
• You need customization 
• Connect with a community 

The NEUBIE Effect Guide: How to Improve Your Practice’s Revenue, Referrals and Patient Outcomes 

Clinic Spotlights: Case Studies of PT Practices Using the NEUBIE