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Episode 36: | Grown Up and In Demand, with APTA President Kyle Covington (opens the original)
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The momentum behind physical therapists, the payers still holding on to an old picture of PT, and what new grads need to stay in the profession. (subscribe to our YouTube channel here .) Kyle teaches at Duke, spent years in hospital-based care as a board-certified neurologic specialist, and started PT school in 2001, when direct access and the DPT were the new conversation. He's candid about how hard it is to be a clinician right now, and he's optimistic anyway. Here's what you'll hear: You're g
Episode 35: AI Was the Boogeyman. A Year Later, Everyone Was Using It. (opens the original)
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Chris Hoekstra watched PT's AI panic flip in twelve months at the same annual meeting, and he explains what that reversal says about how this profession actually changes. Chris has been a PT for about 25 years. He also holds a PhD in clinical informatics, teaches organizational behavior at Oregon Health & Science University, and leads clinical transformation work at Therapeutic Associates. He calls himself a sociotechnologist, and that turned out to be the right word for this conversation. We go
Episode 34: PT Has a Capacity Problem. Hybrid Care is the Answer (opens the original)
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Net Health's Ben Barron on the 12,000-therapist shortage, what CMS' proposed RTM changes would mean for rural practices, and how to create access to physical therapists' expertise starting today. The physical therapy profession is 12,000 therapists short, with no catch-up projected until 2037 at the earliest. Demand is climbing. Filling the schedule is not the problem. We should be focused on how to serve more of the community with the therapists we already have. Ben Barron is a physical therapi
Episode 33: How Physical Therapists Prove Their Value in Value-Based Care (opens the original)
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VA Leader Brian Westlake, PT, DPT, Cert MDT on how to impact total cost of care, what it means to control healthcare spending in a fixed budget and how primary care is crucial, outcomes-accountable care, and MSK triage in primary care. After 25 years leading inside the Veterans Administration, Brian Westlake came away certain that future of the physical therapy profession depends on moving upstream, into the primary care team. He saw it firsthand. As an executive overseeing a ~$400 million budge
Episode 32: The Physical Therapist, The Big Cycle, and The Age of AI (opens the original)
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Plus, Ray Dalio's framework for how systems break, applied to the profession's financial reckoning and its AI future (note: this episode was published before the CMS 2027 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule was published) Is physical therapy heading toward its own financial reckoning? In Episode 32, Dana and Alex run MSK care through the same systems logic Ray Dalio uses to explain how countries go broke. Here's what you'll hear: How physical therapy goes broke. Large systems are already taking
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