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Exercise Therapy – The Mission Move Difference

Our team believes you can achieve anything through the right medical care, movement practice, and lifestyle changes. To accomplish all this, our physical therapy – Roswell staff are big on bringing our focus back to basics. Our current medical environment is quick to tell us that we are broken and can only be fixed by pills, shots or surgery. Mission Move is here to show you that there is another way. 

Your body has the amazing ability to heal itself, to adapt and to survive in any environment. We just need to get out of our own way. The path back to our healthiest self is not through canned approaches and outdated methods, like ice packs, electrical stim, and stationary bikes. This one-dimensional strategy is rampant in traditional, third-party-pay physical therapy practices – you’ll soon see our tactics are delightfully different! Mission Move is a private-pay (out of network) physical therapy and performance center. We purposely set up our physical therapy practice in Roswell, Alpharetta, and Johns Creek like this in 2008 and have helped thousands of people. Before your heart seizes from sticker shock, let’s shed some light on what cash-based physical therapy is and how this method will likely save you time, money and resources, while also helping you achieve your desired results. True story.

Cost of Physiotherapy – Cash-Based Model Defined

Full Transparency

Have you ever visited a doctor, paid your copay, received a bill later…and then ANOTHER bill months later? It’s frustrating and confusing. Mission Move chooses a cash-based model for our practice. In a cash-based treatment model, your Mission Move therapist enters into an agreement with you to provide physical therapy services in a manner that both parties have decided upon to help you reach your treatment goals most efficiently (AKA: FULL TRANSPARENCY with no surprise bills 3 months in).

Pay at Time of Service

You will pay at the time of service. This model allows us to focus on providing direct, one-on-one care, while keeping administrative costs low. You may pay for services using actual cash, a check, a credit/debit card, or with your HSA. In some instances, you may also personally file for reimbursement from your insurance company to curb your out-of-pocket expense. Most insurance companies, with the exception of Medicare, Medicaid and some HMOs, will provide reimbursement for services received “out of network”. We can help you with this process. 

No limits to YOUR plan of care

We are not big on limitations – neither are you, which is why you’re here. In our 12 years of experience helping patients in North Fulton, we’ve seen third-party payers pressure for immediate diagnoses, insist on confining treatments, and interfere with the physical therapy we want to provide, which often hurts the patient’s progress and hinders our ability to reach his or her goals. Regardless of what sport or type of fitness you enjoy, we want to partner with you and give you the right treatment to get you back on the game, not the kind of treatment your insurance provider THINKS you need.

Save Time and Money

Furthermore, (…can we get a drum roll, please?), out-of-pocket expenses over the course of physical therapy will often be less expensive for patients like you with a cash-based model than through traditional physical therapy practice. Here’s how:

The typical PT model will often have you coming 2-3x a week, whether you need it or not.  They typically need to utilize as many visits as your insurance allows to make their business work. In our model, we typically see the patient 1x a week and give them an extensive home program so he or she can begin working on this at home. We also see our patients an average of 6-10 times during a plan of care, and quickly go from rehabilitation to working on performance and prevention.

Cash-based does not mean our team is short on the education, qualifications and accreditations necessary to provide you with best-in-class medical care. In fact, we blend unique backgrounds in strength, conditioning, and human performance to go well beyond rehab and help you live your happiest, healthiest life. If you’re a runner, we not only want to help you get rid of your pain from a stubborn knee tendonitis, but also fully return you to running better and faster than you did before your injury. We are the physical therapists who want you to be as active as possible whether it be running, cycling, swimming, weight lifting, golf, or tennis. Whatever your goal, our expert level of performance physical therapy can help get you there!

How Long is Physical Therapy? – The 2 Paths To PT Care

2 Paths Mission Move PT Traditional PT
Time Savings 10 visits, 20 minutes each way = 400 minutes in the car

Total time: 6 hours and 40 minutes

30 visits, 20 minutes each way = 1200 minutes in car

Total time in car: 20 hours

Percentage of appointment time spent with PT 100% of the time, 1 hour, one on one, with a Doctor of Physical Therapy 20-30 minutes, or 50% or less of your appointment time
Quality of Care Mission Move PT introduces cutting edge rehab techniques, including dry needling and various manual therapies. Hope you’re ready to move because your PT has access to a full strength and conditioning gym and plans to use it. Your sessions focus on overall health, fitness and performance – 100% on you as the patient with a care plan decided by the physical therapist/patient team. Physical therapy doesn’t stop: it’s a continuous process to improve your performance and quality of life. Beyond recovery, you have a 1:1 performance PT that will help you avoid unnecessary surgeries, pharmaceuticals and medical costs. Patient spends most of the time on passive modalities (ice, heat, ultrasound, TENS), and weak exercise progression (therabands, bike, no gym equipment). Hoping for innovation? Nope. Most insurance companies do not reimburse for many therapy techniques and it takes 10+ years for a new medical procedure to be reimbursable by insurance, your PT’s hands are tied. Essentially, your care is decided by the insurance company- not your physical therapist.
Billing You pay upfront or at the end of each session. You know exactly what you are paying for and what that payment includes. Full transparency. You may pay a copay or you may have to meet your deductible. You may pay your copay but still get a big bill 3 months later. Surprise, surprise?
Overall Cost Our cash-based model is often cheaper with higher deductible plans; especially when you factor in what insurance may or may not reimburse and when you look at the overall cost from longer plans of care. This doesn’t even begin to account for the value of preventative care – how much would you pay to avoid surgery, unnecessary MRIs, shots or pills? Have you met your deductible? If so, you could be all right with $30 copays at each visit…depending on your insurance plan.
Access Let’s get to know each other. You enjoy full access to your PT team with email, messaging, phone calls, and next or same day appts. We will always return your call that day or next day. ALWAYS! Questions or concerns? You may not get a call back for days and when you do, it’s from an admin or answering service – not your PT. Forget about messaging or email access. Want to go straight to the source with an appointment? Fine, but you may have to get on the three-week waiting list.

 

WHICH PHYSICAL THERAPY PATH WILL YOU CHOOSE TO GET BACK
TO YOUR PEAK PERFORMANCE?

physical therapy - roswell