Episode 32: The Physical Therapist, The Big Cycle, and The Age of AI
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 write-offs and defaulting as payers stop feeding operations that don't return what they promised…
The skinny
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