ATI Physical Therapy Reviews

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Paul Stamper

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At times it feels like we are robots with the amount of ltients that each therapist has to see per hour. Patients have a tendency of coming in late and stay longer which carries over into other patients treatment time.

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Clinic director has too many responsibilities from time to time, sometimes too many patients in the clinic for clinicians available

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Rapid expansion which we have lived through, private equity pressure. High C-suite turnover which can be felt at the clinic level.

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Management is horrible, it’s simply do as I say. No one will go to bat for you or back you up even though you’ve given them hundreds of hours of your time so they look good! This place has gone down hill in the past 3 years! There is no employee retention in place and ATI will never retain good employees, all the smart ones leave when they’ve had enough! Every negative review you read is the truth, they treat their employees like crap, with low or no raises!

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New therapists are given no opportunity to negotiate salary, told how to practice, given incentivized goals based solely on the number of patients seen, and often struggle to have positive outcomes with patients due to being overworked. At their best they maintain a happy ignorance to how their licenses are being taken advantage of to bill for an incredible amount of units of physical therapy, with multiple patients seen at the same time being billed for individual units. Often times, the PT’s are unaware that they may be billing fraudulently, but are reassured that “any billing mistakes are taken care of on the back end” -senior HR staff. Generally, one PT may sign off on and co-sign up to 40 notes in one day, sometimes even more. You will always have a partner PTA or ATC, and liability on the therapist is incredible. Now they want to utilize therapists to provide satellite work hardening services while providing PT to patients at the same time. This eliminates the positions of FIRST directors and places even more liability on the PT’s shoulders. Many PT’s have discussed with me their fear of fraudulent billing when they later realize how their licenses were used. Unfortunately, many are awestruck with the proposition of a good paying job with a clean cut business presentation, and don’t realize how this will affect their careers.

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It's hard to watch one therapist juggle 3 patients at the same time. The PT's are stressed out and patients are questioning the triple booking

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They will give you a CEU allotment but basically never let you use it. They will promise you 1,000 and only follow through with 1. The managers don’t know how to manage, they don’t know how to treat employees. They don’t pay living wages. The 4 core values are all for show and they don’t believe in doing any of them.

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Salary could be better for tenured employees.

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It can be slow to hire support staff or other clinicians, however they have recently improved their hiring efficiency. Productivity will always be emhasized, though likely not anymore than competitors. Clinicians are typically asked to expand hours during holiday weeks and sometimes expect clinic directors to work more than 32 hours, despite being entitled to 8 HRs of holiday pay.
Annual merit raises have been at or only slightly above rates in inflation. Clinical director and staff PT incentive plans seem to be constantly revamped.