PT & Pelvic Health Practice Setup, Billing & Credentialing
A physical therapy practice needs an operating plan for the entire episode, from access and referral through authorization, follow-up, and discharge. Sunshyn connects PT private practice startup with direct access questions, plans of care, assistant requirements, documentation, and payer verification. Keep the operational steps visible as your practice grows.
Built for physical therapists and independent physical therapy practice teams.
Start free. Select more than one specialty when your practice spans professions.
Member education and tools
Find the education for your practice questions
These previews show what you can explore in your physical therapy account. Sign up to access the teaching, resource library, and saved planning tools. Start free; Premium resources and tools are marked inside the Learning Center.
Starting a PT or pelvic health practice
How do I build a practice plan for my physical therapy services?
Access physical therapy startup education, direct-access and referral resources, and specialty planning worksheets. Pelvic-health learning and saved readiness tools add a focused workspace for practices developing that service.
Where can I learn about the payment work behind a PT episode?
Open PT payer verification education, authorization planning resources, and claim or denial tools. Use your account to connect the learning with a saved episode plan and the operational questions your practice needs to resolve.
Where do I find documentation and coding education for my services?
Access plans-of-care, reassessment, episode documentation, and specialty payment learning. Pelvic-health resources add focused teaching and payment evidence tools so your verification work has a place alongside the practice plan.
How do I organize payer enrollment as I launch or grow a PT practice?
Find enrollment education and state source maps inside the Learning Center. Connect insurance participation work with your service settings, episode operations, team planning, and the practice documents you are building.
Work through five lessons on service readiness, consent and assessment choice, functional documentation, payer verification and patient education. Save a pelvic-health readiness map and a payment evidence plan, then adapt Academy preparation lessons for your practice.
Direct access and referral planning
Use the PT direct access and referral resources to identify the questions for your state, service, and payer. Turn those questions into intake and verification steps so your team knows what to check before scheduling and what still needs an answer.
Plans of care and episode documentation
Connect authorization, documentation, reassessment, assistant requirements, and discharge workflows in a specialty practice plan. Claim and denial tools help organize the evidence and follow-up work that can interrupt an episode when information is missing.
Episode operations and practice capacity
The Episode Operations Planner helps coordinate intake, scheduling, authorization, follow-up, and discharge tasks. Combine it with referral planning, practice policies, and team worksheets to define responsibilities across the episode rather than only at the first visit.
What’s available in your physical therapy account
Connect learning to work you can save and use. Free and paid membership options share one account; individual tools and resources identify their access level.
Your specialty dashboard
Return to your specialty workspace, saved work, and next actions from one home.
Learning Pathways
Follow the complete 17-step practice startup guide, then use focused specialty education and enrollment-and-payment cases.
Find an Answer
Search the pathways, resources, and worksheets for your profession when you have a specific practice question.
My Practice Plan
Organize specialty milestones, service decisions, and next steps in a plan you can return to.
Specialty resource library
Keep profession-specific guidance, source links, and finished practice resources organized in your account.
Interactive worksheets
Save answers to checklists, verification reviews, planners, and operational decisions as you work.
Policy, Form & Practice Builders
Customize editable practice language with guided choices, saved versions, and document downloads.
State & Medicaid Tracker
Use specialty source maps across all 50 states. Save the requirements you are checking, review notes, and dates.
Claim Decision Lab
Organize service, setting, provider, benefit, and documentation questions before choosing a billing route.
Denial Reason Reviewer
Work through denial context and build a saved follow-up plan with the evidence and next questions you need.
Payer & State Watchlist
Save payer and state interests and revisit matching resources and review information in your specialty.
Growth Center
Plan a service model, referral relationships, outreach, pricing, and capacity around your profession.
Practice team access and planning
Organize roles and onboarding, and use Practice Premium for separate team logins and owner-managed specialty access.
My Practice
Keep shared practice identity and specialty-specific credential and operational information together.
Saved learning progress
Track completed lessons, keep notes, and return to the work you have already started.
Specialty community
Open the community view for your profession from the same account as your learning and practice tools.
Practice Academy
Add a branded patient education home with resources, courses, assignments, programs, updates, and content activity insights.
Support
Get help with your Learning Center account and the tools you are using.
Account and specialty settings
Choose one or more specialties, manage your account, and switch workspaces while keeping saved work.
Built for your specialty · Premium
PT Episode Workflow Studio
Turn your episode operations plan into reusable administrative checkpoints with clear owners and review dates.
Assign a review date to an episode checkpoint.
Track a missing-item process to completion.
Find a referral or coverage partner.
Save your work, assign dated tasks, complete recurring checks, and download printable materials. The member-only connection directory contains opt-in, self-reported listings; participation grows as providers join.
Leave with a decision, a plan, and a working document
Free helps you learn where to start. Premium adds tools to evaluate your business model and turn specialty guidance into saved work you can use in your practice.
Know what your service needs to earn
The Business Workbench calculates the fee and paid units needed for your costs and owner pay target, including admin and travel time. Compare three alternative offers and see whether each fits your available hours.
Take away: a saved pricing and capacity comparison.
Test the plan before you commit
Adjust cancellations, collection losses, and payment delays. See the effect on owner pay and collections in transit. Export your own inputs, comparison, and stress-test results as a PDF report or CSV.
Take away: a business report for your next review.
Build the practice documents
Adapt editable policy and workflow builders to your physical therapy practice, save your decisions, and download working documents for your review.
• PT assistant and plan oversight policy
• PT direct-access and referral standard
• PT episode intake-to-discharge workflow
Take away: editable specialty documents.
Use your own business estimates. Calculations do not establish payer coverage or permitted charges. Your practice reviews documents before using them.
Examples from the currently available catalog. Create an account to open the complete library and save your work.
Learning pathways
Free
Physical therapy practice startup
A free, specialty-specific startup path with a concrete decision and source check in every step.
Free
Pelvic-health PT: readiness, consent and follow-through
Five practical lessons on service readiness, consent, functional documentation, payer verification and patient education. This pathway teaches operations and does not train examination or treatment techniques.
Premium
Physical therapy: enrollment and payment cases
A focused Premium pathway with a worked case, source checks and a saved decision plan for the actual provider, product and setting.
Specialty resources
Free
Choose a PT telerehabilitation service deliberately
Use clinical suitability and a backup plan before assigning a remote evaluation or treatment.
Free
Connect PT evaluation, plan, and progress notes
Structure records around clinical findings, measurable goals, skilled services, and payer-specific timing.
A point-of-use reference connecting functional concerns, clinician findings, skilled reasoning, response and the next plan.
Free
Pelvic health: teach the purpose of a bladder diary
Help patients gather useful observations for review without turning a public handout into a bladder-training or exercise prescription.
Free
Plan a PT direct-access intake
Check state direct-access law, clinical screening, and payer conditions before accepting a self-referral.
Free
PT Medicare therapy threshold and PTA reference
Keep the combined PT/SLP KX amount, targeted review, assistant modifiers and documentation together.
Worksheets and builders
Free
Pelvic-health PT service and consent readiness
Learn the method, then save a reusable practice plan with verified sources and accountable next steps. Use fictional details only.
Free
PT direct-access intake decision
Make one practical service decision and list the current rules you must verify.
Free
PT visit format and length
Choose a visit setting, calendar length and payment route, then record what must be checked before offering it.
Premium
Episode Operations Planner
Design the administrative checkpoints for referrals, authorizations, visit counts and document deadlines. Use practice-level information only; keep patient details in your approved system.
Premium
Pelvic-health PT payment evidence plan
Learn the method, then save a reusable practice plan with verified sources and accountable next steps. Use fictional details only.
Premium
Physical therapy capacity and payment
Budget for treatment time and the work around a complete episode.
Choose how you want to use the Learning Center
Free
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Begin with the complete 17-step startup guide, free resources and worksheets, a practice profile, and saved progress.
Calculate fees and capacity, compare offers, export business reports, and use Premium pathways, specialty planners, editable builders, and billing tools for one provider login.
Give your practice a branded home for patient education, courses, assignments, and programs. Practice Academy is an optional $40/month add-on to Practice Premium ($80/month total per practice). Each practice controls and reviews its patient content before publishing.
Yes. Choose the specialties you want at signup, or add them later in Account Settings. Switch between your selected workspaces while keeping specialty work separate. Practice owners manage the selection for team logins.
Can I upgrade without starting over?
Yes. Your account, saved worksheets, learning progress, and completed work stay with you when membership changes.
Do I have to complete everything in order?
Follow the startup pathway when you want structure, or open a focused resource or tool for the question you need to address today.