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Includes 300 page How to Successully Launch an Aquatic Therapy Practice manual
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CE credit: A certificate of attendance will be issued worth 21 contact hours (2.1 CEU equiv) for each video seminar ordered.
More info: Read our online article "25 Steps to a Dream" about launching your own practice.
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Day 1 on Video
4:00 PM ~ Welcome and orientation to conference
4:15 PM ~ Preventing the really BIG mistakes - learning good aquatic facility design from the past mistakes of others
6:15 PM ~ Prefabricated pools - when and why to buy a pool, not build. Also, when to add a prefab to complement an existing pool
7:15 PM ~ Designing (or buying) the perfect pool to meet your specific needs (lecture & practicum). Creating a functional design description that guides your entire construction process by telling your design team exactly what depths, temperature, entry methods, slope and equipment your pool will need.
9:00 PM ~ Wrap-up and instructions for next day (Salzman)
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Day 2 on Video
8:30 AM ~ The nuts and bolts of making your dream a reality ~ a step-by-step plan to building a successful practice. Including:
- Estimating the operating costs of a therapy pool.
- Crunching the numbers—how to show the bank (and yourself ) that your aquatic therapy business can bring in more money than it spends.
- How to estimate your “absolute maximum revenue cap” from the square footage of your pool.
- Why classes can’t pay for your pool — and what to do about it.
- What makes therapy “1:1” and what makes it “group therapy”?
- The swim school/ aquatic therapy marriage (financial nirvana).
- Reimbursement forum - getting paid for what you do. Discussion of CPT coding, need for billing specialist, rate setting, how to get a good payer mix, cash-based therapy, etc.
10:30 AM ~ The nuts and bolts of making your dream a reality ~ a step-by-step plan to build a successful practice (cont.)
1:45 PM ~ Pool lab - trying out all the hottest aquatic therapy equipment. An introduction to performing manual therapy techniques and resistive exercise in the pool (including Watsu®, Bad Ragaz, Ai Chi and other specialty techniques)
5:30 PM ~ Pool lab end
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Day 3 on video
8:30 AM ~ Employees versus contractors? - why many entrepreneurs choose to “contract with” instead of hire (and what the IRS has to say about it)
9:30 AM ~ So, who should I hire to staff my pool? - what state practice acts and insurance regulations say about getting paid in your aquatic therapy practice
10:30 AM ~ Successful aquatic programming. Including, How to create the right mix of 1:1 and group clientele. How to create the right mix of cash-based and insurance-based clientele.
1:00 PM ~ Promoting a successful practice - tricks of the trade. On-site visits by physicians, physician-therapist office working relationships, bottom-up promotion (clients coming in on their own), the successful wellness-fitness-therapy model.
2:30 PM ~ Mapping out your aquatic therapy business plan - modeling successful aquatic therapy practices. Inspiration and direction for when you get home (practicum)
3:30 PM ~ Where to find everything you didn’t hear this week - additional resources for successfully launching an aquatic therapy practice (including puchasable Policy & Procedure Manuals)
4:00 PM ~ Wrap-up and dismissal (Salzman)
