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Caught before billing
not appealed after
PT-experienced reviewers
chart-level review
Medicare & commercial
every plan you see
Clawback protection
years of revenue defended
Everywhere else, a bad note costs one claim. Here it costs three years.
That's the part that makes this specialty genuinely different. In most practices, a documentation gap means a claim gets denied and someone fixes it. In yours, the gap sits quietly in the chart, the claim gets paid, and the money arrives. Then an audit letter shows up asking for fifty charts, and every one of those old payments is suddenly in question.
You can't appeal your way out of that after the fact. The only real protection is a chart that already says what it needs to say, which is why we work before the claim goes out, not after it comes back.
See what your charts are missingWhat 5–8% looks like on a $2.5M practice
The 5–8% range reflects OneMed's analysis of 28 physical therapy practices and covers both revenue underpaid and revenue exposed to clawback; the dollar figures apply that range to a $2.5M example practice. Your actual exposure depends on payer mix, documentation, treatment mix, and audit history.
Same treatment. Same patient. Two very
different outcomes.
Nothing about the care changes here. The therapist did identical work with identical skill. The only difference is what the note says, and that difference decides whether the money you're paid is yours to keep.
Illustrative of what payers and auditors look for. Exactly what's required, and how often, depends on the payer, the plan, and the care provided.
Five gaps that turn good care into lost revenue.
Each one starts as a small omission in a note written at the end of a long day. Each one can cost you money you've already earned.
The minutes nobody wrote down
Much of what you do is paid by time. When a note says the patient did their exercises but never says for how long, the payer doesn't ask. It simply pays less, or nothing. The therapist gave the full session; the chart couldn't prove it.
Two treatments paid as one
Treating a patient's neck and lower back in one session is two pieces of work. To be paid for both, the note has to make clear they were genuinely separate. When it just lists them, the second one is folded into the first and pays nothing.
No proof the patient improved
Payers want to see that people are actually getting better, measured at the start, along the way, and at discharge. “Patient reports feeling better” isn't that. Without a measurable score, an auditor can call the whole episode unnecessary and take the money back.
The order that quietly expired
Every plan of care needs a physician's sign-off, renewed on schedule. If treatment continues and the signature is even a day late, every claim in that gap can be reversed, including care you delivered in good faith.
Past the annual limit, without the approval
Many plans cap what they will cover for therapy in a year. Once a patient crosses that line, continued care needs an explicit justification attached. Miss it and everything above the limit can be denied, while payments already made may be demanded back.
Bandwidth, not effort
Nobody here is doing anything wrong. The structure just makes this almost impossible to catch from the inside.
Therapists are clinicians, not coders
Your team trained to rehabilitate people, not to write for auditors. They don't know the exact phrasing a reviewer looks for, and they shouldn't have to learn it between patients.
Everyone watches denials, nobody watches prevention
Billing teams are built to fight claims marked denied. A claim that pays, even one carrying a landmine in the chart, sails through untouched.
You can't see it from the deposit
The deposit looks healthy right up until the audit letter arrives. Compliance gaps don't show up in a bank balance, and you can't manage what nothing shows you.
We fix it while it can still be fixed.
The difference between this and ordinary billing support is timing. We look at the chart before the claim goes out, when a missing detail is still a question your therapist can answer, not a gap an auditor gets to interpret. All inside the systems you already use.
See it before it's billed
Our ClearView dashboard reviews charts ahead of billing and flags what is missing, including unrecorded minutes, an unexplained second treatment, a progress score that was never captured, or an order that is about to lapse.
A person, not a guess
Flagged charts go to reviewers who understand physical therapy documentation. They work with your therapist to add the clinical detail while it can still be added honestly and properly, before the claim is submitted.
Recover what was already underpaid
Where a payer has already paid short, we build the appeal with the documentation behind it and pursue the correct payment.
Get ahead of the calendar
We track expiring orders and patients approaching annual limits, then prompt your team in time to secure the approvals before the next session, not after.
The 2026 OneMed PT Profit & Protection Index.
We aggregated the anonymized results from every physical therapy practice we worked with over the last 18 months. Here's what changed once the charts were reviewed before billing instead of after.
28
PT practices analyzed
142,000+
claims reviewed
$145K
average recovered per practice
↓ 88%
average clawback exposure
Clean-claim rates rose 12% on average. Here's where the money was recovered or protected, and notice that the two biggest items come down to what the note did or did not say.
| Where the money was found or protected | Share of the total |
|---|---|
| Minutes not recorded on timed treatments | 32% |
| Separate treatments folded into one | 28% |
| Progress never measured on the record | 18% |
| Physician orders that lapsed | 14% |
| Approvals missed past the annual limit | 8% |
Aggregated across OneMed physical therapy engagements over the trailing 18 months. Individual results vary by practice, payer mix, treatment mix, documentation, audit history, and starting point.
Who We Serve?
Documentation protection and full-cycle billing for physical therapy.
Independent PT clinics
Owner-run practices where a single audit can become an existential event.
Multi-site PT & rehab groups
Groups needing consistent documentation standards across every clinic and therapist.
Hospital-affiliated outpatient rehab
Outpatient therapy under a larger organization, where audit exposure is watched closely.
High-volume & sports rehab
Busy clinics with heavy timed-treatment volume, where minutes and same-day treatments drive the revenue.
Your charts, handled properly
Chart review means clinical records, so we execute a BAA before we look at anything, and everything is handled in a controlled, auditable environment.
See your charts the way an auditor will.
The fastest way to know where you stand is to look at a handful of real charts together. We'll show you what an auditor would flag and what it would be worth if they did. Because this involves clinical records, we put a BAA in place first. It's the honest way to do it, and it takes minutes.
- 1 · BAA first — charts are clinical records, so we get the paperwork right before we see anything.
- 2 · Pick 10 charts — a mix of evaluations, progress notes, and discharges from your main payers.
- 3 · Share securely — through our secure portal, with identifiers minimized wherever possible.
- 4 · See it live — where minutes are missing, separate work isn't explained, progress isn't measured, or an order has lapsed.
Book your 15-minute chart review
We'll confirm a time within one business day.
Common questions.
Why is physical therapy different from other specialties?
Because the risk runs backwards. In most specialties, a documentation gap costs you one claim. In PT, an auditor can review charts going back years and demand repayment of money you were already paid and already spent, so the chart you write today decides whether you keep revenue from three years ago.
What do you actually check for?
Time documentation on timed treatments, whether separate treatments were explained as separate, measurable progress scores at the points payers expect them, physician sign-offs before they expire, and approvals once a patient passes an annual limit.
How is this different from just appealing denials?
We work before the claim goes out, not after. Our ClearView dashboard shows where a chart is missing what a payer will look for, and our reviewers work with your therapist to add the clinical detail while it can still be added properly.
Do you make us change our EHR?
No. We work inside the systems you already use and adapt to your workflow, with no EHR change and no disruption to your clinic.
What happens on the 15-minute chart review?
We review a small sample of charts together and show you what an auditor would flag, including missing minutes, unexplained same-day treatments, absent progress scores, and expired orders. Because charts are involved, we execute a BAA first.
Do we have to switch billing companies?
No. The documentation review works alongside your current billing, and many practices start there before expanding.
Keep the money you already earned
Fifteen minutes and a handful of charts will tell you where you stand before someone else decides for you.