Why Physical Therapy Practice Owners Can No Longer Stay on the Sidelines
Rehab 2 Perform Founder and CEO Dr. Josh Funk, PT, DPT was recently featured as a guest contributor on the APTQI blog. His piece makes a direct argument to practice owners: if you have built something meaningful, staying silent on policy is no longer defensible.
The Argument
Most practice owners carry the same frustrations privately. Reimbursement pressure. Administrative burden. Payer complexity. Barriers to patient access. None of those get resolved by operators focused only on their own four walls. Advocacy is where individual frustration becomes organized influence. Josh writes as someone still growing in this area, not someone who has mastered it. That honesty makes the call to action more credible, not less.
His central point is straightforward: success and scale come with responsibility. Owners who have built real organizations, developed leaders, and shaped patient experiences have a seat at the table. The question is whether they use it.
Why It Matters for the Profession
Physical therapy underperforms its potential in the broader healthcare landscape. That is not a clinical problem. It is a systems problem. Policy decisions shape that gap, and those decisions get made with or without input from the people closest to patient care. Practice owners who engage through organizations like APTQI or state APTA chapters give the profession a more grounded, operator-informed voice.
If you are a practice owner, a clinician with a stake in where this profession is headed, or someone thinking seriously about the relationship between building a business and advancing an industry, the full piece is worth your time.
Read the full post on APTQI: Why Practice Owners Need to Step Into Advocacy
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