23.12.25: Is operating a private physiotherapy clinic profitable or expensive?



“Everytime a physiotherapist looks at his or her clinic’s balance sheet, the expense versus profit concern comes up.”

“Yes, being a human-delivered service, operating a physiotherapy clinic, even the simplest one, is expensive. Even if rentals are saved by owning the clinic’s premises, sustenance and growth in a competitive market, impacted further by the lack of time for showing up for the appointments, by the clients coming from nuclear family situations, makes it an expensive affair.”

“So, automating clinical operations can bring down the costs?”

“No. The cost of using tech-dependent non-clinical automations is still high and far from being standardized and physiotherapy-only focussed in India.”

“What about using therapeutic technologies then, to reduce human involvement in clinical work and raise profits?”

“Well, that will mandate heavier expense on marketing, to ensure timely recovery of investment in such technologies, to achieve a state of profit. So, it is still expensive.”

“So, what is the way out?”

“Do not fall into clinical or non-clinical tech delimmas. Technologies are useful, but only those, which are flexible enough to wrap around your own confident design of operations. If you need to modify your overall style of working, to suite a technological adoption, then its surely going to be an expensive affair and challenging to become profitable.”

“But continuing human involvement also doesn’t fetch revenues, proportional to the quality time spent with any client. Is there a scope to achieve that, specially in a price conscious country like India?”

“Yes, conduct only required number of sessions for any client. This way, per session revenue can be maintained, while reducing the overall cost for the client.”

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