Basic Business Skills for Rehab Therapists:
The Course You Should Have Had in School

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Course Description
Develop the basic business skills and background knowledge you need to tackle the business side of rehabl therapy. The presentations, group discussions, group exercises, and self-directed learning experiences in this course will help you gain insight into the business skills required of today’s therapy professionals.
Special emphasis will be placed on:

• Financial Management (including reimbursement, budgeting, and accounting).
• Leadership and Personnel Management (including governance structures, communication skills, motivation, performance management, management systems, and time management).
• Strategic Management (including organizational influence, legal aspects of management, marketing, project management, and negotiation skills).
• Clinical Management (including outcome and quality management, productivity enhancement, recruitment and retention of staff, and use of clinical protocols and treatment guidelines).

You’ll Learn To...

• Recognize the value of business skills and understand the continuing development of therapy as a profession.
• Identify additional physical therapy business resources.
• Network with peers in order to share ideas and strategies related to the development of strong leadership and business skills.
• Develop a personal plan of action to further your business skills as therapy leaders in business environments.

This course is designed for...
Staff therapists, supervisors, managers and leaders interested in developing business skills.
This course is also appropriate for more experienced managers interested in an introductory business skills program.

Overview of Workshop

Reimbursement and Finance
Financial Success
Reimbursement Success
Documentation Success
Breakout - Budgeting, Practice Profiling

Leadership and Personnel Management
Negotiating Success
Motivation
Performance Management
Breakout - Negotiating with Managed Care, Retention/Recruitment,

Strategic Management
Organizational Structure & Restructuring
Legal Issues in Health Care Management
Marketing Success
Breakout - Marketing, Financial Case Study

Clinical Management
Productivity Success
Quality Success
Breakout - Managing Change, Incentive Management
Closure and Course Evaluation

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Peter R. Kovacek, PT, MSA

Peter Kovacek is the President of Kovacek Management Services, Inc. Peter's ongoing clients include major hospital systems, private PT practices, rehab agencies, universities and managed care companies throughout the country. Peter received his undergraduate degree in Physical Therapy from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and his Masters of Science in Administration (with an emphasis on health care marketing) from Central Michigan University. He has been adjunct or part time faculty at Wayne State University and Oakland University since 1979 and is a frequent guest lecturer at other universities throughout the country.

Peter is currently  President of the Section on Administration of APTA and immediate past.Vice President of the Acute Care/Hospital Clinical Practice Section. Peter is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of PT Magazine and Briefings on Rehabilitation Reimbursement and Regulation and a monthly Columnist for Advance Magazine. He is also Content Editor of the American Physical Therapy Association's Home Study Course on Business Skills.

In addition to having written over 100 articles and columns on PT and Rehab management, Peter is the author of two books on managing in a managed care environment and one book on productivity and quality improvement. He is co-author of "Managerial and Supervisory Principals for Physical Therapists" published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins in 1998.

More about Peter Kovacek.

This course is typically facilitated by 2-3 instructors. Additional speakers will vary by course location and audience.

KovacekManagementServices, Inc.

Telephone
800 540-0774
313 884-8920

Fax
(313) 884-8510

Postal Address
20225 Danbury Lane
Harper Woods, MI  48225

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