Physical therapy Learning Center

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.

Physical therapy billing and payer verification

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.

PT coding and episode documentation

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.

Physical therapy insurance credentialing

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.

Practice tools built around physical therapy

Pelvic-health PT resources

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.

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.

Get your specialty workspace

Individual Premium · $15/month

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.

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A look inside the physical therapy library

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.

  • Free

    Pelvic-health PT: functional-documentation quick reference

    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

$0

Begin with the complete 17-step startup guide, free resources and worksheets, a practice profile, and saved progress.

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Individual Premium

$15/month

Calculate fees and capacity, compare offers, export business reports, and use Premium pathways, specialty planners, editable builders, and billing tools for one provider login.

Choose Individual Premium

Practice Premium

$40/month

Give your practice up to five separate logins with owner-managed access. Additional logins are $5/month each.

Choose Practice Premium

Optional Practice Academy for physical therapy

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.

View membership and Academy details

Questions about your specialty account

Can I select more than one specialty?

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.

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Start building your physical therapy practice

Choose your specialty, begin with the free startup pathway, and keep the work you finish in one account.

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