Telehealth: How Do You Create A Plan Of Care?

by · 9th April 2020

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So you’ve done it. You’ve got your first Telehealth patient.

They’ve agreed to spend $200 to work with you, great, But now what?

If this were my clinic I would start with nine sessions. Three this week, three the next week and so on. But people aren’t going to want to do three sessions a week online. So what do you do?

What are the “rules”?

What do we do if we don’t stick to the “in-clinic model”?

Thankfully, Telehealth Expert, Juan Michelle Martin gave me some insight into what her plan of care was…

“For me, it depends on the patient that I’m working with. So, there are some people that might come to me that are very guarded and I might say, You know what? Here’s what we’ll do. We’ll do this evaluation session and then see where we are.

But then use that evaluation, to prime that patient, and then offer them that package. I usually tell people I need at least this many visits to work on these things. You know, typically, I see my patients once a week. I don’t necessarily need to see them because I’m not seeing a lot of post-op patients. But if I am, then I might see them twice a week to start and then, branch off to one time a week. But for those of you working with orthopedic patients, working with post-op patients, you absolutely need to be in there. You need to tell them, listen, they’re things that we need to make sure that we’re staying on top of, you know, they’re progressions that I need you to make. We want you to get back to this point and keep driving home those goals. Keep telling them, you know, we need to get you back here. If this is where you want to be, then this is what we need to do to get you there. And sometimes it’s just about leaving the ball in their court. If this is what you want, then what are you gonna do about it?”

Remember, this is a different medium then most of us are used to. So working with not only the clients’ needs but also with what they are willing to give is key.

Also, if you haven’t already, you can still enroll in my Telehealth Income Explosion program and get access to all content which includes every and anything you may have missed.

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Sincerely,

Paul Gough

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PAUL GOUGH is a multi-time No.1 bestselling author of The New Patient Accelerator Method, The Physical Therapy Hiring Solution, To Sell is Healthy, and The Healthy Habit. He is also a former professional soccer physical therapist turned successful clinic owner from the UK (a country where healthcare is free). He is the founder of the Paul Gough Physio Rooms – a successful cash pay clinic he started from a spare room in his home with no money down and with no business or marketing skills. He has since scaled his clinic from one to four locations, and zero to $1m in cash pay revenue and he now helps clinic owners all across America and around the world to get more cash pay patients using his proven systems.

About Paul Gough

PAUL GOUGH is one of the top Marketing and Business Coaches in the physical therapy industry and his Systems are helping clinic owners all across America run more profitable clinics. He is a published Author, Newspaper Columnist and before his stunning success in business was hired by top professional soccer teams. HIS SUCCESS STORY is one that inspires many pt's around the world - at the age of 26 Paul QUIT a high profile job in professional soccer to begin his own clinic. He had NO money, NO business or marketing skills and NO experience - and yet now owns and runs 4 pt clinics and has a proven track record of growing a physical therapy business from 0 - $2m in record time.
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