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Physical Therapy Clinic Business Case
A leased U.S. outpatient physical therapy clinic providing one-on-one general musculoskeletal, orthopedic and sports rehabilitation through four licensed physical therapists, including a paid working owner. Private treatment rooms and a shared rehabilitation gym support the same clinician calendar. This business case excludes inpatient rehabilitation, home visits and separately billed wellness memberships.
Capital to open
$550,000
$350,000–$800,000 by launch scope
Year 3 revenue
$904,104
Annual modeled sales
Year 3 EBITDA margin
12.4%
Before interest, tax and depreciation
Operating break-even
Month 11
Base monthly ramp; not capital payback
This operating case allocates $550,000 to opening the business and forecasts $111,776 in Year 3 EBITDA. Payroll includes working-owner labor where applicable. These are planning assumptions; EBITDA is not cash available to the owner.
An editorial comparison of operating conditions, not a probability of success, a customer rating or a promise of returns. Read the evidence beside each assessment.
Weighted total
4.9 / 10
The total combines the five assessments below using the published weights.
New U.S. four-therapist one-on-one outpatient clinic in leased premises, including a paid clinical owner and administrative coverage. Local patient access and payer prices remain conditional; no personal referral advantage is assumed.
Barrier to entry
Higher means easier entry.
15% weight
4.0 / 10
Established licensing paths exist, but qualified clinicians, dedicated clinical premises and coordinated payer and practice setup materially constrain entry.
Evidence and assessment basis
Fact: BLS identifies required professional education and state licensure; FSBPT supplies the state-board directory. Assumption: four licensed therapists and a dedicated leased clinic with fit-out and working capital. Judgment: anchor 4 fits an obtainable but coordinated professional and premises opening path; reusable therapy equipment helps, but does not remove credential and site dependencies. No local approval is claimed.
Plan your business · U.S. Small Business Administration · accessed October 2, 2026
Sources support the underlying facts. The numerical assessment is an editorial judgment.
Competition
Higher means more favorable competitive conditions.
20% weight
5.0 / 10
A clinic can compete through access and continuity, but the scenario has no exclusive referral position or demonstrated pricing protection.
Evidence and assessment basis
Fact: BLS identifies offices, hospitals and home care among existing therapy settings; CMS shows the separate payer framework. Assumption: a locally reachable musculoskeletal and sports patient segment with ordinary outpatient alternatives and no exclusive referral access. Judgment: conditional anchor 5 supports ordinary service differentiation with limited protection, not an underserved-market claim. A local access and payer survey could move this assessment either way.
Therapy Services · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · accessed October 2, 2026
Plan your business · U.S. Small Business Administration · accessed October 2, 2026
Sources support the underlying facts. The numerical assessment is an editorial judgment.
Demand stability
Higher means more stable demand.
25% weight
6.0 / 10
Rehabilitation needs span the year and different patients, while authorization, affordability and referral changes can interrupt an individual clinic's completed visits.
Evidence and assessment basis
Fact: BLS describes several recurring sources of therapy need; Medicare covers qualifying medically necessary outpatient therapy, while the APTA respondent survey reports authorization delays. Assumption: a mixed patient and payer base rather than one employer or sports season. Judgment: anchor 6 recognizes year-round repeat use with meaningful channel and access sensitivity. Episodes end and patients may not complete scheduled care; occupation growth does not prove this clinic's sales.
Sources support the underlying facts. The numerical assessment is an editorial judgment.
Margin ceiling
Higher means greater supported operating-profit potential.
20% weight
5.0 / 10
The mature case covers full paid clinical labor and overhead, but a lower realized visit fee or small loss of completed volume quickly consumes the surplus.
Evidence and assessment basis
Fact: BLS wage data establish material professional and administrative labor costs. Assumptions: the stated visit fee, capacity and fully paid roster yield a positive mature pre-depreciation, pre-interest and pre-tax operating result; the lower-fee sensitivity turns negative. Judgment: anchor 5 is supported by positive full-cost coverage with material utilization and price exposure. No local contract evidence supports a higher pricing-advantage anchor; replacements and cash timing further limit distributions.
Therapy Services · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · accessed October 2, 2026
Sources support the underlying facts. The numerical assessment is an editorial judgment.
Owner dependency
Higher means less dependence on the owner's continuous involvement.
20% weight
4.0 / 10
Other licensed therapists deliver visits independently, but the owner still supplies clinical time and daily business coordination without a separately funded practice manager.
Evidence and assessment basis
Fact: therapist delivery requires qualified professional time and administrative responsibilities persist. Assumption: the owner is one of four paid clinicians, supported by reception and part-time administration but no autonomous manager. Judgment: anchor 4 fits independent routine staff delivery with daily owner coordination. Owner wages are costed; that does not establish replacement availability, redundant clinical leadership or long-absence coverage.
Sources support the underlying facts. The numerical assessment is an editorial judgment.
Who pays you, and what for
Review the customer, offer and operating scope behind the numbers before adapting them to your own plan.
Patient offer
One-on-one outpatient physical therapy for musculoskeletal, orthopedic and sports rehabilitation, delivered by licensed clinicians.
Operating unit
The completed visit connects one appointment, its clinician time and its attributable net revenue.
Binding capacity
Qualified therapist time constrains the clinic; rooms and exercise stations support delivery without multiplying the same clinician.
Owner role
The owner is paid for clinical work and remains responsible for coordinating the business and professional operating systems.
Operating scope
One outpatient clinic; four private treatment rooms and a shared rehabilitation gym
Clinical team
Four paid licensed physical therapists, including the working owner
Revenue unit
One completed visit at its net realized fee; not one billing code or unique patient
Schedule
Five clinical days per week; 24 completed clinic-wide visits per day in the mature case
Capacity boundary
32 available one-hour appointment blocks per day before utilization losses
Who are you actually bidding against?
National sources establish care settings and administrative constraints. Local competitor access, referral flows and willingness to pay for this clinic have not been surveyed.
Local market assessment pending. The checklist below identifies research to complete; it is not a measured competitor sample.
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Competitor research checklist · no measured local sample
Offer to investigate
Compare like for like
Evidence to collect
Independent outpatient practices
Continuity, appointment access, payer participation and net patient cost.
Dated local appointment availability, service scope and payment terms.
Hospital outpatient departments and chains
Referral access, network coverage, convenient locations and available specialist schedules.
Local payer directories, actual patient pathways and service availability.
Direct-pay and specialty clinics
Scope, visit length, total patient commitment and claimed differentiation.
Current service terms and privacy-respecting patient interviews; do not infer efficacy from marketing.
What supports the model, and what strains it
These are operating considerations for the scenario, not measured advantages over local competitors.
Potential strengths to validate
A measurable service calendar. Clinician time, completed appointments and realized revenue can be reconciled without treating every billing code as a new visit.
Multiple patient needs. Outpatient physical therapy serves several needs and age groups, while the actual clinic still needs local access and permitted competence.
A staged specialty decision. A new service can be evaluated against existing space and staff time before a separate premises commitment.
Tradeoffs to plan around
Professional staffing precedes a full book. Salaried clinician and administrative capacity remains a cash commitment during slow demand and payer onboarding.
One-on-one care limits throughput. More bookings require actual clinician time; overlapping patient care cannot silently substitute for the stated format.
Clinical need and payment differ. A service may be clinically indicated while authorization, coverage, patient responsibility or payment timing constrains receipts.
Does this operating role fit you?
Evaluate the work you will do and the cost of replacing it. Review the owner responsibilities in the operating scope.
A fit to explore if you can…
Licensed working therapist who can lead clinical delivery and a paid team.
Operator prepared to reconcile scheduling, payer terms, adjustments and cash.
Founder who can fund the launch without assuming all scheduled capacity is immediately sold.
Reconsider the plan if you need…
Passive owner relying on unpaid clinician work or uncosted management cover.
Founder treating billed charges as cash or counting procedure codes as extra visits.
Operator committing to a premium fit-out without local patient access and payer evidence.
Where the $550,000 goes
Authored opening allocation for a roughly 3,000-square-foot leased clinic, not a national average or vendor quote. The lower scope assumes reusable fitted premises; the upper scope assumes greater construction and cash exposure. The reserve is funding held for launch losses, delayed collections and contingencies, not an operating expense counted again in the forecast. Land purchase, clinical education and major building acquisition are excluded.
Leasehold work and clinical layout
$150,000
Treatment tables and rehabilitation equipment
$65,000
Furniture, computers and practice-system setup
$30,000
Lease deposits and opening occupancy
$25,000
Professional setup, credentials and launch
$20,000
Working capital and contingency reserve
$260,000
TotalScenario range $350,000 – $800,000$550,000
Where does the money come from?
Price, daily volume and the operating calendar define this capacity scenario. Check the sold-unit definition in the operating scope.
Net realized revenue per completed visit$145.00per sold unit
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Completed visits per day across the clinic24modeled daily volume
General musculoskeletal, orthopedic and sports appointments share the same four clinicians. Use a weighted net realized fee that reflects actual visit and payer mix. Telehealth and future specialties named in the product are optional adaptations, not extra base-case revenue.
Seasonality and the opening ramp
Holidays, staff leave, patient travel, cancellations, authorizations and referral patterns can change the calendar. No observed monthly seasonality series is assumed; the constant-week convention needs a dated local schedule.
What does the revenue have to cover?
Year 3 annual amounts from the income statement. The bars use the same revenue scale; EBITDA is the residual after the three operating expense lines.
Year 3 revenue$904,104
Supplies, billing and payment expense$72,328
Therapists, paid owner and administration$570,000
Premises and fixed practice overhead$150,000
EBITDA$111,776
Working-owner pay belongs in payroll. Interest, income taxes, loan principal, replacement equipment and changes in working capital affect cash available for distributions.
Five-year view · scroll the income statement horizontally to compare every year →
Five-year forecast
Year 1 follows the monthly 40% starting share plus five percentage points per month of the mature completed-visit volume. Year 2 averages 90% of the mature case, representing continuing gaps rather than an uninterrupted extension of the launch ramp. Year 3 uses 24 daily visits at a $145 net fee. Years 4–5 use 25 and 26 visits at $150 and $155, with payroll and fixed overhead increasing 4% annually. Direct expense is 8% of revenue. The full $570,000 burdened payroll and $150,000 overhead budget is funded from opening; the first three years use a common planning cost basis. This is a constructed scenario, not observed performance. Operating surplus is before depreciation, interest, tax, major replacement and cash-collection timing.
RevenueEBITDA
$610.3k
$813.7k
$904.1k
$974.3k
$1.0m
Year 1
EBITDA $-158.6k
Year 2
EBITDA $28.6k
Year 3
EBITDA $111.8k
Year 4
EBITDA $147.5k
Year 5
EBITDA $184.5k
Physical Therapy Clinic income statement · annual USD
Income statement
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Revenue
$610,270
$813,694
$904,104
$974,250
$1,046,994
Supplies, billing and payment expense
−$48,822
−$65,095
−$72,328
−$77,940
−$83,760
Therapists, paid owner and administration
−$570,000
−$570,000
−$570,000
−$592,800
−$616,512
Premises and fixed practice overhead
−$150,000
−$150,000
−$150,000
−$156,000
−$162,240
EBITDA
−$158,552
$28,599
$111,776
$147,510
$184,482
EBITDA margin
-26.0%
3.5%
12.4%
15.1%
17.6%
The annual forecast and original calculator inputs agree within $5 on Year 1 revenue, Year 1 operating result and the mature annual operating result. These checks do not validate demand, assumptions or cash funding.
Set the three inputs to your own plan. The ramp starts at 40.0% of mature volume and adds 5.0 percentage points a month.
Monthly revenue over the first 24 months. Darker bars clear the operating break-even line.
Operating break-even
Month 11
Revenue at maturity
$75,342 / mo
Break-even revenue
$65,217 / mo
Break-even volume
21 / day
Fixed costs
$60,000 / mo
Use the volume definition in the operating scope. This sensitivity keeps fixed costs and contribution margin constant; it does not rebuild the annual income statement. Operating break-even covers monthly fixed operating costs. It does not recover the opening investment.
Two numbers that decide the outcome
Price and daily throughput define the operating case. The range endpoints are sensitivity scenarios; test whether your location can support them.
Net realized revenue per completed visit
$110.00$175.00
$145.00
this model
Completed visits per day across the clinic
1632
24
this model
What if the schedule is lighter, or fuller?
Only daily volume changes. All three cases keep the invoice at $145.00, the schedule at 5 days per week, fixed costs at $60,000 per month and contribution margin at 92.0%.
Lower throughput
Use the low end to test a thinner schedule.
Completed visits per day across the clinic
16
Mature monthly revenue
$50,228
Operating break-even
Not reached
Not reached in the 24-month ramp.
Base throughput
The current modeled daily schedule.
Completed visits per day across the clinic
24
Mature monthly revenue
$75,342
Operating break-even
Month 11
First month contribution covers fixed costs.
Higher throughput
Validate the operating capacity first.
Completed visits per day across the clinic
32
Mature monthly revenue
$100,456
Operating break-even
Month 6
First month contribution covers fixed costs.
Capital payback needs a cash-flow schedule. The current forecast has no cumulative cash balance after funding, taxes, debt principal and future capital spending. No payback date or lowest cash balance is reported.
What can go wrong, and what should you test?
Use these checks to challenge the operating assumptions before taking on commitments.
Credentialing before collections
Services begin before payer enrollment, billing readiness or collectible terms support expected receipts.
Check: Verify contracts, effective dates, covered scope and billing processes; fund the gap without assuming retroactive payment.
Unpaid capacity gaps
Cancellations, leave and administrative work reduce completed visits while salaries remain due.
Check: Track available blocks and completed visits separately, with a funded staffing and absence plan.
Realized fee shortfall
Payer adjustments, denials or noncollection leave a lower net fee than the model assumes.
Check: Reconcile actual net revenue by payer and visit type and rerun the threshold before expanding fixed cost.
Referral concentration
A narrow referral source or payer supplies too much of the appointment book.
Check: Measure referral and payer concentration and develop lawful alternative access pathways.
Owner overload
The owner is scheduled for clinical work while business and professional responsibilities require the same time.
Check: Protect management blocks and cost qualified cover; reduce capacity when that cover is unavailable.
Premises and privacy mismatch
The lease, layout, data system or vendor arrangements cannot support the actual operating obligations.
Check: Obtain qualified site and compliance findings and allocate accountable owners before opening.
What would invalidate this scenario?
Choose your own go/no-go thresholds before committing funds. The page does not establish a universal stop-loss rule.
Before signing an unconditional lease
Pause if lawful ownership, professional scope, premises suitability, coordinated costs or funding remain unresolved.
Before booking opening patients
Do not imply readiness until required licenses, facility conditions, records, staffing and payer arrangements are verified.
Before adding a therapist
Pause expansion if retained demand, realized fees, clinician space or downside cash does not support the new commitment.
Before owner distributions
Reconcile collections, payroll obligations, taxes, debt, reserves and replacement needs before treating an operating surplus as available cash.
What needs to be true before you proceed?
Treat this page as a starting case to verify. A favorable spreadsheet result is only useful when its price, capacity and cost assumptions can be supported.
Which locally reachable patients can use this clinic at its actual payer and direct-pay terms?
How many appointment blocks remain after documentation, leave, breaks and owner management time?
What proportion of scheduled visits becomes completed visits?
What net revenue is attributable to each completed visit after adjustments and expected noncollection?
Which payer and referral sources dominate the clinic?
What cash covers launch losses, authorization delays and receivables?
Who supplies qualified clinical and management cover during owner absence?
I would validate collectible visits before committing to this clinic's full staffing and fit-out. The one-on-one promise creates a clear service offer, but it also makes each missing clinician hour or unpaid appointment financially visible.
The model pays the working owner and the delivery team from opening. This makes a slow launch expensive, but avoids presenting unpaid professional work as business profit. Recruitment and payer readiness need to be sequenced with the cash reserve.
The treatment rooms and exercise area share the same therapist calendar. Adding equipment or a second service label does not create more qualified time. I would preserve documentation, leave and management allowances when testing a busier appointment book.
A completed appointment, an accepted claim and a bank receipt answer different questions. The public net-fee assumption only becomes useful when actual payer adjustments and expected noncollection support it; cash timing then needs a separate test.
What could change the view
My main concern is a clinic that appears busy while its realized fee or collection speed is weaker than planned. Salaries and rent continue, and a one-on-one schedule leaves limited room to replace lower prices with more visits.
Who this format suits
This case suits a licensed working therapist prepared to manage people, schedules, payer administration and cash as well as clinical delivery. Staff can provide ordinary care independently, but the owner role still needs explicit time and qualified absence cover.
Before committing
Before an unconditional lease, assemble a dated clinician calendar, actual compensation offers, payer terms, local patient-access evidence and coordinated premises quotes. Test the lower-fee and slower-collection cases against the available reserve before adding another fixed commitment.
What is planned for the editable workbook?
An illustrative worksheet layout using this page's inputs. It is not a screenshot or a download of a finished Excel file.
The published calculator and annual forecast are separate views. The downloadable workbook requires its own separate calculation review.
Revenue
The matching product models therapist resources, maximum monthly treatment capacity, utilization and realized prices by service line. The online case translates that structure into completed clinic-wide visits.
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COGS & OPEX
Separate revenue-linked billing, payment and consumable expense from rent, practice systems, insurance, marketing and maintenance.
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Payroll
Pay the owner therapist, three employed therapists and administrative coverage before calculating the operating result.
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Scenarios and financial statements
The product description provides low/base/high comparisons, a dashboard and linked income statement, cash-flow and balance-sheet reporting.
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The planned business plan has 10 pages. Its contents and the three file prices are listed below.
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Confirm these items for your location and operating scope. This checklist does not assert that a particular license, insurance policy or employment arrangement is sufficient.
Professional and premises readiness
Applicable board and ownership findings
Verified licenses and intended scope
Written layout, accessibility, permitted-use and lease findings
Patient and payer evidence
Local access and competitor review
Actual payer terms and enrollment effective dates
Defined eligibility, authorization, booking and financial workflows
Operating calendar
One clinician and room schedule without double counting
Documentation, leave and management allowances
Funded staff roles and credible cover
Cash and cost evidence
Coordinated equipment and construction quotes
Local recruitment offers and employer costs
Monthly launch, receivable, debt, tax and downside cash schedule
Where could this model miss your situation?
Most financial inputs are author-selected assumptions. The source register explains what is supported and what still needs local validation.
Scenario, not an industry average
The clinic size, visit fee, capacity, expense budget and launch path are authored. National context does not verify local demand or cost.
Clinical and legal scope
The case is business planning only. It does not prescribe treatment, determine billing codes or certify permission to operate.
Operating profit and cash
The public calculator excludes receivable timing, financing, depreciation, tax, major replacements and distributions.
Product adaptation
The paid plan and workbook retain their own editable examples. The online case is not a claim that those examples agree with this scenario or have been audited.
Extended analysis: editorial basis
Prepared October 2, 2026 from current cited sources and explicit authored assumptions for the stated U.S. four-therapist outpatient physical therapy clinic. The site owner reviewed and approved this AI-assisted planning case for publication. This review does not establish local fieldwork, clinical approval, a paid-file formula audit or verified payment and delivery.
One outpatient clinic; four private treatment rooms and a shared rehabilitation gym
Clinical team
Four paid licensed physical therapists, including the working owner
Revenue unit
One completed visit at its net realized fee; not one billing code or unique patient
Schedule
Five clinical days per week; 24 completed clinic-wide visits per day in the mature case
Capacity boundary
32 available one-hour appointment blocks per day before utilization losses
Prepared October 2, 2026 for a U.S. four-therapist outpatient clinic. Public occupational, Medicare, licensing, privacy and startup-planning sources establish context. All financial amounts, schedules, utilization, service pricing and growth inputs are authored assumptions; none are national clinic averages or verified local quotes. Monthly calculations use 4.33 weeks, or 51.96 weeks annually. Maximum capacity counts one-hour appointment blocks once; completed utilization absorbs leave, cancellations, gaps and management time. Realized visit revenue is net of contractual adjustments and expected noncollection but precedes collection timing. The five-year case and launch ramp reconcile within whole-dollar rounding. EBITDA is a pre-depreciation, pre-interest and pre-tax operating proxy, not net income, owner take-home pay or a probability of success. Product-page evidence is used privately to verify operating fit, not to benchmark the financial case. The site owner reviewed and approved this AI-assisted business-planning case for publication on October 2, 2026. This review does not establish a medical treatment recommendation.
U.S. Census Bureau · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
Lists NAICS 621340 for offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists and audiologists. Classification context; not a clinic revenue benchmark.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
Updated August 27, 2026; May 2025 national PT median pay $102,760 and offices-of-therapists median $97,160. Describes licensing, work settings, documentation responsibilities and demand context. Employee wages exclude self-employed owner earnings; no local salary offer, reimbursement rate, visit capacity or clinic profitability is established.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
May 2025 median pay for medical secretaries and administrative assistants is $45,930. Describes insurance-processing and scheduling responsibilities. National occupational context, not local wages, employer burden or adequate staffing for this clinic.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
Current Medicare outpatient therapy billing and payment guidance. Payment rules and documentation must be checked for the applicable service, provider, date and jurisdiction. Does not establish one universal collected price per session.
Explains medically necessary outpatient therapy coverage, certification and beneficiary cost sharing. Supports distinguishing clinical need, payer coverage and actual receipts; not commercial-payer rates or guaranteed payment.
Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
Directory of state licensing authorities. Use the applicable board to verify individual licenses, scope and local requirements; directory membership does not establish clinic authorization or ownership eligibility.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
Explains HIPAA covered-entity and business-associate scope, including providers conducting covered electronic transactions. Context for privacy and vendor arrangements; no compliance certification or implementation cost estimate.
American Physical Therapy Association · industry · accessed October 2, 2026
2025 member survey report; printed page 2 reports 30.2% of respondents waited one to two weeks for prior authorization. Supports administrative-delay risk, not a probability or delay forecast for this clinic; respondent experiences are not a census of U.S. practices.
U.S. Small Business Administration · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
Guidance on local market research, startup costs, recurring expenses and funding. Supports budget structure and local validation, not the authored clinic dollar amounts.
Austin Physical Therapy · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
Texas practice pricing page inspected October 2, 2026 lists $150 cash-pay per physical therapy evaluation and follow-up. The page distinguishes insurance benefits and says it does not participate with Medicare. An individual posted retail price, not a national average, paid claim or observed realized collection.
Western Slope Rehab & Performance · primary · accessed October 2, 2026
Grand Junction, Colorado practice page inspected October 2, 2026 lists $150 initial evaluation, $115 for a 45-minute follow-up and $80 for a limited-availability 30-minute follow-up. Individual posted fees with distinct durations; not payer reimbursement or proof of the modeled clinic's price.
Public U.S. offer inspected October 2, 2026: base table $2,246.36; listed curbside delivery option $450, optional features extra. Four base tables are $8,985.44 before delivery/options/tax. A single equipment configuration, not a complete clinic quotation; professional suitability remains unverified.
How much does this physical therapy clinic cost to open?
The authored opening case totals $550,000, including a $260,000 working-capital and contingency reserve. Its $350,000–$800,000 scope range is a planning range, not a measured national average. Local construction, equipment, payroll and payer terms determine actual funding.
Does the forecast pay the owner therapist?
Yes. The working owner is one of four paid licensed therapists. The payroll budget includes clinical and administrative base compensation plus an employer-cost allowance; operating surplus is separate from compensation and is not distributable cash.
Does a completed visit equal one patient or one billing code?
No. A patient can attend several clinically indicated visits, and one visit can include multiple properly billed service codes. Count the appointment once and attach its total net realized fee without duplicating code-level revenue.
Is the $145 visit input a Medicare rate?
No. It is an authored blended net-fee assumption after contractual adjustments and expected noncollection. Replace it with the actual payer and direct-pay mix. Medicare payment depends on applicable services and rules, rather than a universal session price.
Can the clinic increase revenue by filling every treatment room?
Only qualified, scheduled clinician time supports treatment capacity. Private rooms and gym stations do not create separate revenue if the same therapist is already occupied. The model deducts gaps and other lost capacity through utilization.
Is operating break-even the same as recovering the opening investment?
No. The calculator tests contribution against recurring operating cost. Investment recovery, debt, taxes, delayed collections, replacements and owner distributions require a separate cash schedule.
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