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Dr. Dimitrios Kostopoulos calls out the United States’ Department of Education’s proposal that would reclassify the DPT and other clinician doctorates as non-professional degrees — risking student-loan access, shrinking the PT pipeline, and worsening care access.
Hear how H-1B changes, corporate consolidation, and loan caps threaten private practice and patients — plus concrete advocacy steps and where to take action.
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Highlights:
00:00 - Provocative opening claim: federal committee may not consider PTs “professionals”
01:24 - Rise Committee proposal explained: DPT reclassified as graduate, not professional, degree
02:59 - Policy consequences: student-loan limits, higher out-of-pocket cost, deterrent to entering PT
04:23 - APTA response: why the association says the proposal is misguided and harmful
05:17 - Workforce shortage: ~15,000 PT shortfall and impact on access to care
06:41 - Immigration impact: new H-1B $100,000 fee for foreign-trained PTs and clinic consequences
08:04 - Systemic effect: corporate consolidation advantage vs. private practice vulnerability
10:23 - Education & scope: multi-year DPT training, licensure, board exams, and clinical responsibilities
11:38 - Diagnostics expertise: electrodiagnostics, MSK ultrasound, interpretation and medical decision influence
13:07 - APTA Patient Action Center — mobilize staff, patients, colleagues
#handsondiagnostics #yourpracticeyourmoney #podcast #DrDimitriosKostopoulos #physicaltherapy #diagnostics #APTA #studentloans #DPT #healthpolicy #privatepractice #PTadvocacy #workforce #H1B #healthcareaccess
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Meet with Dimi
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Dr. Dimitrios Kostopoulos calls out the United States’ Department of Education’s proposal that would reclassify the DPT and other clinician doctorates as non-professional degrees — risking student-loan access, shrinking the PT pipeline, and worsening care access.
Hear how H-1B changes, corporate consolidation, and loan caps threaten private practice and patients — plus concrete advocacy steps and where to take action.
Subscribe for updates.
Highlights:
00:00 - Provocative opening claim: federal committee may not consider PTs “professionals”
01:24 - Rise Committee proposal explained: DPT reclassified as graduate, not professional, degree
02:59 - Policy consequences: student-loan limits, higher out-of-pocket cost, deterrent to entering PT
04:23 - APTA response: why the association says the proposal is misguided and harmful
05:17 - Workforce shortage: ~15,000 PT shortfall and impact on access to care
06:41 - Immigration impact: new H-1B $100,000 fee for foreign-trained PTs and clinic consequences
08:04 - Systemic effect: corporate consolidation advantage vs. private practice vulnerability
10:23 - Education & scope: multi-year DPT training, licensure, board exams, and clinical responsibilities
11:38 - Diagnostics expertise: electrodiagnostics, MSK ultrasound, interpretation and medical decision influence
13:07 - APTA Patient Action Center — mobilize staff, patients, colleagues
#handsondiagnostics #yourpracticeyourmoney #podcast #DrDimitriosKostopoulos #physicaltherapy #diagnostics #APTA #studentloans #DPT #healthpolicy #privatepractice #PTadvocacy #workforce #H1B #healthcareaccess
For more episode info, head over to:
Your Practice Your Money
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If you find value in this podcast, please leave a review and share it with friends and colleagues.
Join us in building a community of empowered private practice owners.
Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform, including Spotify.
Join us next Thursday for another new episode, more insights and strategies to make this your most successful year ever.
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Inspirational Corporate by MaxKoMusic | https://maxkomusic.com/
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US