024 Jeanine Colburn: PT And Author Of The Small Patient Practice

Jeanine has been in private practice for over 30 years and has even written a very helpful book titled The Small Patient Practice: A Beginners Guide to Starting a Pediatric PT, OT or SLP Solo Practice. 

Jeanine has been a physical therapist in multiple states in the U.S. which gives her a unique insight into how therapy is conducted, billed and paid under different state systems.

After her active duty as a Physical Therapist in the Air Force she began her private practice in the Early Intervention (EI) system.

 

Here is what you will learn:

• How she stumbled upon private practice by wanting to serve her local community

• What motivated her to write her book: The Small Patient Practice

• How to "get the coding right"

• How she bills insurance companies

• The main source she accessed to learn about billing regulations

• How she aquired therapists to work for her

• How she paid her therapists

• Her best marketing tool

• The importance of reading books about business

• How she worked in Spain for a year and how you could too

• The book that helped her realize how important her time is

• Why you should not go cheapskate on educating yourself about running a small business