The Physiophyx Difference
Our team believes you can achieve anything through the right medical care, movement practice, and lifestyle changes. To accomplish all this, we are big on bringing it back to basics. Our current medical environment is quick to tell us that we are broken and can only be fixed by pills, shots or surgery. Physiophyx is here to show you that there is another way. Your body has the amazing ability to heal itself, to adapt and to survive in any environment. We just need to get out of our own way.
The path back to our healthiest self is not through canned approaches and outdated methods, such as ice packs, therabands, and stationary bikes. This one-dimensional strategy is rampant in traditional, third-party-pay physical therapy practices – you’ll soon see our tactics are delightfully different! Physiophyx is a private-pay physical therapy & performance center. Before your heart seizes from sticker shock, let’s shed some light on what private-pay physical therapy is and how this method will likely save you time, money and resources, while also helping you achieve your desired results. True story.
1-On-1 Care
Time Spent With A Physical Therapist Per Session
Due to the trend of insurance companies decreasing the amount they reimburse for physical therapy services, physical therapy clinics that do accept insurance have to see a high volume of patients to make ends meet. This leads to your physical therapist only being able to spend 15-20 minutes with each patient since they are required to see 2-3 sometimes even 4 patients in an hour. With Physiophyx, your entire hour long session will be spent with your physical therapist.
Same Physical Therapist Every Session
Number of Times Patients Have to Come Into the Clinic Per Week
Our goal for all of our patient is independence. Because you’re with a Doctor of Physical Therapy the entire session we’re able to provide you with all the education and exercises you need to take control of your progress and your recovery without needing to be reliant on us, another physcial therapist, chiropractor, ect.
100% of Your Care Carried Out By Doctors of Physical Therapy
Physical Therapist With Sports Specializations
Full Access to Your PT with Same Day Response
Physical Therapist That "Walks the Talk"
Care Carried Out By Energetic, Passionate Physical Therapists
What is not commonly known, is that the physical therapy profession has a high burnout rate. Why? It’s not uncommon for a physical therapist to see between 14-20 patients a day in a traditional physical therapy clinic. This equates to almost 100 patients a week! At Physiophyx, our physical therapists are able to arrive and leave work energetic and passionate due to only seeing 7-8 patients per day i.e., almost 65 patients LESS per week comparatively. This means more attention to detail and ultimately improved outcomes for you!
Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee
Cost Efficiency
Many patients are hesitant to go out of-network because they perceive that to be a more expensive route. However, in many cases, it may actually be the more cost effective route depending on your insurance plan. Why? Because many people have high deductibles and end up paying out of pocket no matter whether they go to a clinic that accepts their insurance or not. As you can imagine, it doesn’t take long to hit your deductible with in-network clinics who require 2-3 sessions per week. Our goal, because you only need to come in 1x per week for a total of 6-10 sessions, is that you never hit your deductible! If you have met your deductible, you will still have a copay with clinics that to take your insurance. The national copay is ~$50. If you are having to go in to the clinic 3x a week that ads up to $150 anyways!
Lastly, just because we’re out-of-network, does not mean you will not receive coverage from your insurance. In fact, most of our patients receive 50-80% coverage. How? We provide you with the documentation that you need as well as an app (Reimbursify) that will take care of receiving that reimbursement from your insurance company for you so you don’t have to!
Cost Transparency
You will never get a bill for us months later. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for patients to get hit with a large bill months later by clinics that do accept insurance. Why is this? Because insurance is so complicated, it’s nearly impossible for in-network physical therapy practices to accurately predict the amount of what will be covered until they submit the bill to insurance. If insurance does not reimburse them full the full amount, you the patient, are responsible for the remaining balance.
Full Body & Wholistic Approach
Insurance companies restrict the physical therapist from treating any body part not listed on the referral from the physician. This leads to cookie cutter approaches and severely limits the PT’s capabilities of taking a full body approach, providing wholistic care, and truly getting to the root cause of your injury.
Unlimited Number of Sessions
Full Access to a Strength & Conditioning Gym (i.e. Barbells, Dumbbells, Kettlebells, etc...)
Physiophyx introduces cutting edge rehab techniques. Hope you’re ready to move because your PT has access to a full strength & conditioning gym and plans to use it! On the other hand, there’s traditional PT which focuses on passive modalities (ice, heat, ultrasound, TENS), and weak exercise progression (therabands, bike, no gym equipment). Hoping for innovation? Nope. Because insurance companies do not reimburse for many therapy techniques and it takes 10+ years for a new medical procedure to be reimbursable by insurance, your PT’s hands are tied. Essentially, your care is decided by the insurance company – not your physical therapist
Why Private-Pay? Benefits By The Numbers
We are not big on limitations – neither are you, which is why you’re here. Third-party payers pressuring for immediate diagnoses, insisting on confining treatments, and interfering with the therapy we want to provide often hurts the patient’s progress and hinders our ability to reach his or her goals.
Furthermore, (…can we get a drum roll, please?), out-of-pocket expenses over the course of physical therapy will often be less expensive for patients like you with a cash-based model than through traditional physical therapy practice.
SAY WHAT?!?!
Let’s compare the same path to recovery for two 35-year-old men recovering from a torn rotator cuff. Mike chooses to go the private-pay route with Physiophyx, while Tim sticks with the traditional third-party reimbursement track.
Before we dive into the breakdown, we will assume one crucial thing: both Iron Mike and Tiny Tim have the national average deductible of $1,665 and have chosen conservative care over surgery (which has better long-term outcomes according to the latest medical research). What this means is that until they meet their deductible (whether they’re receiving in-network OR private-pay care) they will be required to pay out of pocket until that deductible has been met.
If we take the “standard” protocol in a insurance-based model for a torn rotator cuff in a healthy individual (25-35), the patient will typically need 4-6 months of rehab requiring passive and active PT (~2x per week) according to the US National Library of Medicine. In our model we typically see the patient 1x a week and give them a extensive home program so he or she can begin working on this stuff at home. We also see our patient on overage 6-10x during a plan of care and quickly go from rehabilitation to working on performance and prevention.
At the end of 6-months, Mike has spent $225 less than his buddy Tim. Although both men were recovering from similar injuries, Mike invests less than a third of the time (10.6 vs. 32 hours) for a fuller recovery that got him back to the lifestyle he loved sooner. This outcome also doesn’t account for the intangibles around enjoying a dynamic, individualized care plan and relationship built with his Physiophyx PT.
Which path will you choose to get back to your peak performance?
1 - DRIVE TIME
Physiophyx
Traditional PT
2 - % OF APPOINTMENT TIME SPENT WITH PT
Physiophyx
Traditional PT
3 - CARE QUALITY
Physiophyx
Physiophyx PT introduces cutting edge rehab techniques. Hope you’re ready to move because your PT has access to a full strength & conditioning gym and plans to use it. Your session focus on overall health, fitness, and performance – 100% of you as the patient with a care plan decided by the physical therapist/patient team.
Rehab doesn’t stop and is a continuous process to improve your performance and quality of life. Beyond recovery, you have a 1:1 performance PT that will help you avoid unnecessary surgeries, pharmaceuticals, & medical costs.
Traditional PT
Patient spends most of the time on passive modalities (ice, heat, ultrasound, TENS), and weak exercise progression (therabands, bike, no gym equipment). Hoping for innovation? Nope.
Because insurance companies do not reimburse for many therapy techniques and it takes 10+ years for a new medical procedure to be reimbursable by insurance, your PT’s hands are tied. Essentially, your care is decided by the insurance company – not your physical therapist
4 - BILLING
Physiophyx
You pay upfront or at the end of each session. You know exactly what you are paying for and what that payment includes