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Woodside Physical Therapy Physical therapy on 61st Street · since 2011
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Published, and the same for everybody

What it costs

$190 for the initial evaluation and $140 for a treatment visit if you are paying yourself. If you are using insurance, we verify your benefit before the first visit and tell you the number.

  • $190 evaluation
  • $140 per visit
  • No prepaid blocks

The figures on the condition pages are numbers of VISITS, not prices. Every condition on this site publishes how long a course usually takes, because that — rather than the rate per session — is what actually decides what physical therapy costs you, and it is the figure this trade is least willing to put in writing. The prices below are what a visit costs. Why we do not sell blocks of visits explains the one thing we deliberately do not offer.

What this practice charges

Self-pay rates. If you are using insurance, what you pay is your plan's copay or coinsurance and we will have told you the figure before your first appointment rather than after your sixth.

  • Initial evaluation

    Sixty minutes with the clinician you booked: history, examination, an explanation of what we think it is, and a written estimate of how many visits it should take.

    $190

  • Treatment visit

    Sixty minutes, one to one, same clinician, same room. There is no shorter and cheaper version of this appointment, because a shorter one is where the shared-therapist arithmetic starts.

    $140

  • Re-evaluation

    The reassessment at visit four, and any later one we ask for. We are not going to bill you for checking whether our own plan is working.

    No charge

  • Home programme and written plan

    Your exercises, the sets, the load and the days, written down and revised whenever they change. It is the part that does the work; charging for it separately would be strange.

    No charge

  • Prepaid blocks of visits

    Deliberately. A package of twelve gives the clinic a reason to use twelve and gives you a reason to attend appointments you no longer need.

    Not sold

  • Insurance billing

    We verify your benefit and tell you the copay or coinsurance before the first visit. Ask for the CPT codes on any visit and you will get them with what was done in each unit.

    Your plan's rate

  • Missed appointment without notice

    Twenty-four hours' notice and there is no charge, for any reason, including no reason. The fee exists because an hour held for you is an hour nobody else could book, and it is waived the first time.

    $60

Why there is no shorter, cheaper appointment

Because a shorter one is where the arithmetic starts to go wrong. Medicare's eight-minute rule counts direct, one-to-one time — minutes a clinician is actually with you — and a practice running three patients an hour on staggered starts cannot honestly report much of it. There are only sixty minutes of a clinician in an hour and they cannot appear in three people's timed units at once.

So a sixty-minute one-to-one appointment is both the treatment we think works and the thing that makes the billing straightforwardly true. Charging less for it would mean changing one of those.

What we do not charge for

The visit-four reassessment, and any later one we ask for. We are not going to bill you for checking whether our own plan is working. The written home programme, revised as often as it changes. A visit that turns into a referral, because being screened and sent to a physician is not treatment. And ten minutes on the telephone working out whether you should be booking at all, which we would much rather spend than have you take a morning off work to be told no.

The missed appointment fee, explained rather than buried

$60 without twenty-four hours' notice, waived the first time. With notice there is no charge, for any reason at all, including no reason. It exists because an hour held for you is an hour nobody else could book and this clinic runs no overlap, and we would rather name that plainly than recover it somewhere less visible.

We do not sell blocks of visits in advance. We do not sell blocks of visits in advance. A prepaid package of twelve sessions gives the clinic a reason to use all twelve and gives you a reason to attend appointments you no longer need, and it converts the single most useful sentence in this trade — you are better, stop coming — into a refund conversation. You pay per visit, and the visit you do not need is the one we cancel.

How a visit turns into units on a bill. Physical therapy is billed in fifteen-minute units of hands-on time, and Medicare's eight-minute rule decides how many: add the timed minutes, divide by fifteen, and add one more unit if eight or more minutes are left over. That rule is why the difference between a busy hour and a padded one is visible on the bill if you know where to look. Ask us for the codes on any visit and you will get them, along with what was actually done in each unit.

Your plan's visit cap, checked before you start. Most commercial plans cap physical therapy visits per calendar year, and the cap is frequently lower than the course of treatment a condition needs. We check your benefit before the first visit rather than after the sixth, we tell you the number, and we plan the course around it — front-loading the hands-on work and handing you more of the programme to run yourself if the arithmetic says we should.

Sixty minutes, one to one, with the therapist you chose

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The booking page shows each therapist's own diary rather than a generic grid, so a slot you can see is a slot that is genuinely free. Most people do not need a doctor's referral to start — New York's direct access law runs to ten visits or thirty days — though Workers' Compensation, No-Fault and Medicare each need one from the first visit. If you are not sure which of those you are, telephone and we will work it out before you book.

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