Billing Medicaid and The Importance of Mentorship with Lydia Lacy
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What are the biggest challenges SLPs face when starting a private practice?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. If you've been listening to this podcast and thinking, I want to do that, then enrollment in the Start Your Private Practice program is open right now through Friday, May 1st at Midnight Pacific. The START program is our step-by-step program specifically for SLPs and OTs who want to build a private practice the right way and who don't have a business background, extra time, and don't want to waste time or money figuring out everything on their own. More than 3,600 of your SLP and OT peers have gone through it. They're in all fifty states. They're seeing clients, earning extra income, and a lot of them will tell you doing the most meaningful work of their careers.
And almost every single guest that you've ever heard on this show, well, they're start program alums. So if you've been inspired by the guests that you've heard on the Private Practice Success Stories podcast, well, they didn't DIY it. The START program is how they became successful in private practice. The start program. Walks you through everything from the legal setup to finding clients, billing, insurance, documentation, taxes, and more. It's completely self-paced and comes with mentorship and a private community, so you're never stuck. This isn't a go figure it out yourself course. This is a comprehensive program and we're with you the whole way. Just one private client pays for the entire investment.
It's also a tax-deductible business expense and we have flexible payment options. You've been gathering information. You know that you want this. So head on over to privatepracticecourse.com to learn more and enroll today. I can't wait to help you start your private practice. Lydia Lacey is a speech language pathologist in Kennesaw, Georgia. She has been an SLP for 23 years, working mostly in the schools. Lydia got to the point where she was dreading it, literally crying in her car, and decided to start a private practice in order to have more fulfillment. She also shared that she wishes that she had started her private practice much sooner. In this episode, she shares about how she started. She talks about billing Medicaid and also the importance of having mentors.
If you've been thinking about starting a private practice in order to have more fulfillment in your life and you want to see how Lydia did it, stay tuned. I'm Jenna Castro-Kasbon, speech language pathologist, business coach, and creator of the Start Your Private Practice System. And I'm on a mission to turn stuck SLPs into successful private practitioners. If you're tired of dealing with high productivity requirements, high caseload sizes, and low pay, it's time to take control of your professional, personal, and financial life and finally get the freedom, flexibility, and financial abundance that you deserve by working with private clients in your own practice. Join me here each week as I share tips, best practices, and inspirational interviews on the Private Practice Success Stories podcast.
If you're a private practitioner or one in the making, you're in the right place, so let's get started. So before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name
of your private practice? My name is Lydia Lacey.
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