I’m a PRN SLP for 3-4 HH Agencies and it has been great! Speech therapist, most of them in the field, make close to six figures. With Home Health, you can easily achieve a six-figure salary by only working four days a week. I agree with this dude. By the way, we need more allied health professionals, so if you are interested, please look into it and see what schools are offering degrees or programs! Soon we won’t have any speech therapist (4 undergrad 3 grad school; occupational therapist, physical therapist, and a lot of nurses will be missing too.
Thank you for this info. I'm looking to pursue this career as a 53 y/o, I'll be 56 before even entering the field (following school/licensing). The independence and autonomy that you're describing is exactly what I'm hoping for. Working as a home health care provider for the past several years, I'm a huge advocate of helping people age in place and have seen over and over what an amazing impact physical therapy has. I'm not interested in seeing as many patients as possible in one day. What I care about is helping/inspiring each person I visit. Quality over quantity. My insurance has always been through my spouse, who's worked at a University for the past 25+ years, so I'm not looking for that at this point in my life. More $/hr in lieu of benefits sounds perfect for me. I'll leave those types of positions for younger folks just getting started in their professional lives. Again, thank you for your videos. Information like this has inspired me to try something different for the final working decade of my life. :)
East texas PTA here and strongly considering doing this, thanks for the info! I work full time for one HH and PRN for another. If you don’t mind sharing what rates are you able to negotiate per visit? I’m getting 55$ at one and 42$ for the other.
I was thinking about moving to Texas after completing my local PTA program and working for a bit. How do you like HH where your at? Also I’m assuming the 55 per visit is the PRN?
@@getar112 yes, 55 is PRN job. HH has its pros down here if you wanna make good money but you do have to deal with scheduling, bug infested houses, smokers, and an inconsistent amount of work. But I have done well over the past 5 yrs with the last 2 being more difficult due to PDGM and covid.
@@mattburch7062 have these last two years turned you off from the profession/setting or would you still say it’s worth it in regards to making a living out of it?
Matt, fellow Texan PT (though) does ur HH do mileage and drive time? The ones I worked for only did per Patient rate no drive time or mileage. Is it like tat in Texas
Hey!! so nowadays, any home health professional like: speech therapist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, and nurses can all do start of cares, research, discharges, valuations, reassessment visit, etc.… Before the pandemic hit, they had a lot of rules that only speech therapist and physical therapist were able to do it alongside the nurse. But now it seems like just about anybody can be involved in the whole beginning, middle, and end of someone’s home health experience. The main rule that they are still definitely applying, at least in the state of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Washington DC is that no assistant therapists are able to do those visits. A PTA, lpn, or COTA are only allowed to do follow up treatment visits that have been agreed-upon by their Overseeing clinician, pt, and their pcp.
Not a headache at all. I call or message the office/scheduler, who try’s to find a therapist who can cover. If no coverage available, it’s a missed visit
I’m a PRN SLP for 3-4 HH Agencies and it has been great! Speech therapist, most of them in the field, make close to six figures. With Home Health, you can easily achieve a six-figure salary by only working four days a week. I agree with this dude.
By the way, we need more allied health professionals, so if you are interested, please look into it and see what schools are offering degrees or programs! Soon we won’t have any speech therapist (4 undergrad 3 grad school; occupational therapist, physical therapist, and a lot of nurses will be missing too.
how many patients do you see in a day? doing PRN
@femiadewale6828 yes I'm an SLP too and would like to know this info! Very smart way of working our field
Thank you for this info. I'm looking to pursue this career as a 53 y/o, I'll be 56 before even entering the field (following school/licensing). The independence and autonomy that you're describing is exactly what I'm hoping for. Working as a home health care provider for the past several years, I'm a huge advocate of helping people age in place and have seen over and over what an amazing impact physical therapy has. I'm not interested in seeing as many patients as possible in one day. What I care about is helping/inspiring each person I visit. Quality over quantity.
My insurance has always been through my spouse, who's worked at a University for the past 25+ years, so I'm not looking for that at this point in my life. More $/hr in lieu of benefits sounds perfect for me. I'll leave those types of positions for younger folks just getting started in their professional lives.
Again, thank you for your videos. Information like this has inspired me to try something different for the final working decade of my life. :)
Thank you for the great info! Just registered for pta program and hoping to get accepted next year.
I appreciate your videos! Thanks!
East texas PTA here and strongly considering doing this, thanks for the info! I work full time for one HH and PRN for another. If you don’t mind sharing what rates are you able to negotiate per visit? I’m getting 55$ at one and 42$ for the other.
55 is great. I’m getting 45 here in SW Florida
I was thinking about moving to Texas after completing my local PTA program and working for a bit. How do you like HH where your at? Also I’m assuming the 55 per visit is the PRN?
@@getar112 yes, 55 is PRN job. HH has its pros down here if you wanna make good money but you do have to deal with scheduling, bug infested houses, smokers, and an inconsistent amount of work. But I have done well over the past 5 yrs with the last 2 being more difficult due to PDGM and covid.
@@mattburch7062 have these last two years turned you off from the profession/setting or would you still say it’s worth it in regards to making a living out of it?
Matt, fellow Texan PT (though) does ur HH do mileage and drive time? The ones I worked for only did per
Patient rate no drive time or mileage. Is it like tat in Texas
In Florida do you have to first do a joint visit with a PT and get placed on the case before you can treat them on your own?
Is OT still not a qualifying discipline in HH? Are there any COTAs working for the HH companies there?
how many patients do you see in a day / week? is this also possible for SOC/ Eval only
Do you feel that PTs could do the same thing doing multiple prn jobs- with the SOCs, Recerts, DCs?
Hey!! so nowadays, any home health professional like: speech therapist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, and nurses can all do start of cares, research, discharges, valuations, reassessment visit, etc.… Before the pandemic hit, they had a lot of rules that only speech therapist and physical therapist were able to do it alongside the nurse. But now it seems like just about anybody can be involved in the whole beginning, middle, and end of someone’s home health experience.
The main rule that they are still definitely applying, at least in the state of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Washington DC is that no assistant therapists are able to do those visits. A PTA, lpn, or COTA are only allowed to do follow up treatment visits that have been agreed-upon by their Overseeing clinician, pt, and their pcp.
How do you handle a sick day as a PRN? Do you just reschedule patients and how big of a headache is that?
Not a headache at all. I call or message the office/scheduler, who try’s to find a therapist who can cover. If no coverage available, it’s a missed visit
I would take what you said if HH still naive ! They are not anymore
Did you apply for an LLC?