CBP 288: Recurring Cash-Pay Revenue in Private Practice – How to Get Yeses to your Maintenance Memberships
The Cash-Based Practice Podcast
Release Date: 11/01/2025
The Cash-Based Practice Podcast
Most practice owners dramatically underperform at local events. They show up with a table, maybe do a few injury screens, collect some emails, hand out some flyers… and then wonder why almost nobody actually becomes a patient afterward. But the problem usually is not the event itself. It is the strategy used by the practice owner and their team. Because when you have a concentrated group of your target market standing in front of you for hours at a time, that should absolutely turn into real patients, referral relationships, and long-term revenue opportunities for your practice. This episode...
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Most practice owners think hiring problems begin after the employee starts. Usually, they begin during the interview. Because the wrong admin can sound amazing in a conversation. They can be friendly, confident, experienced, and still end up becoming one of the biggest operational headaches in your business. That’s especially true in a Cash-Based practice. This model requires a very different type of front desk team member than most traditional Insurance-Based clinics are used to hiring… The communication responsibilities are way higher. The ownership level must be higher. The ability to...
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Most practice owners who start their practice as a side hustle, don’t struggle because it’s not a good model/approach. They struggle because it when it really starts working, and they don’t know when they can safely stop splitting their time, cast away the employment safety net, and do a cannonball into full-time practice ownership. (I used to be a springboard diver so I’m always pumped when I can make a diving reference) In this episode, you’ll hear a real conversation inside my Mastermind with a practice owner who hit her first five-figure month while still only working part-time...
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If you don’t have at least a 6-12 month follow-up system for patients after discharge, you’re leaving a lot of money on the table. Most practices either don’t follow up at all, or they send one message a few weeks later that says something like, “Just checking in to see how you’re doing.” The intention is good, but the message is too easy to ignore. It doesn’t remind the patient what they accomplished, it doesn’t ask a specific question that commands a response, and it doesn’t create a clear path back onto the schedule if they need help again. That’s what this episode is...
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If you use social media in your practice and it takes a lot of time and/or doesn’t generate many actual patients, then this episode is for you. The appeal of AI is obvious for this delima: it can save time, speed up content creation, and help you get more mileage out of what you already produce. But there is also a real risk here, and it is one a lot of practice owners are starting to run into. When AI is used too heavily or too lazily, your content starts to feel generic, impersonal, non-human, and easy to ignore. That is what this episode is really about. It is not about whether AI...
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Most practice owners don’t just struggle with hiring these days... They struggle with what happens after hiring. Because once someone is in the role, a new tension shows up if you’re not a seasoned manager/CEO: Am I asking too much? Am I not being clear enough? Am I giving too much constructive criticism… or not enough? And underneath all of that is a bigger fear: “If I push too hard, I might lose them.” This episode tackles that exact problem. Not from theory. From a real scenario inside one of my coaching calls, where a practice owner is trying to manage a part-time admin...
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If the word sales makes you—or your staff—feel uncomfortable… You are not alone. It’s one of the most common mental barriers in cash-based practice. Clinicians feel it. Admins feel it. Receptionists feel it. And unfortunately, that discomfort quietly crushes growth. Because if you don’t feel good about selling, you won’t do it well. And if you don’t do it well, fewer people say yes. Fewer people stay on schedule. And more people drift away before they get the help they actually need. That’s what this episode is about. Not cheesy persuasion. Not manipulative scripts. Not...
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When the schedule softens, most practice owners do the same thing. They panic. They think, “I need more leads.” They start chasing brand-new people. But that’s usually not the fastest move. Because when you need results quickly, the smartest question isn’t: “How do I get more strangers to find me?” It’s: What’s the lowest-hanging fruit to get the result I want? That’s what this episode is about. You’ll hear me coaching a practice owner who was in the middle of a slowdown while also making a major transition out of network and dropping a big payer. And instead of reaching...
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Episode 300 feels like a good time to zoom out. I started this podcast back in 2014. It was the first podcast on this topic of Cash-Based practice. Since then, I’ve had a front-row seat to startup clinics, multi-location operators, practice owners who were barely hanging on, and practice owners who were absolutely crushing it. And when you watch enough practices long enough, patterns become impossible to ignore. Some things keep working. Some things quietly stop working. Some new opportunities show up fast. And some threats build slowly until they start crushing the people who weren’t...
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Most Cash-Based practice owners approach referral source networking the same way… They imply they’ll “send patients” to the prospective new referral source, and they hint at a partnership that (if we’re being honest) they can’t actually sustain. Because if you’re trying to build 10–20 referral relationships, you cannot send everyone patients. It’s not realistic. And the physician/clinician knows it. So the real question isn’t: “How do I get them to refer to me?” It’s: How do I walk in with something that makes them glad they met me and makes them look good for...
info_outlineEvery practice owner wants consistent, predictable revenue—and the best way to earn this are patients who keep coming back because you continue to transform their life, and they truly value what you provide.
That’s exactly what continuity and maintenance memberships can create.
In this episode, I walk through the most effective strategies for getting more patients to say “yes” to your ongoing care memberships—without feeling salesy or pushy, or offering them anything that wouldn’t be of significant value to them..
And since this episode releases right around Halloween, I’ll start with a quick personal update. 🎃
Our twins, Adelaide and Gray, were a mummy and a pharaoh this year. They’re seven and a half now—getting funnier, cuter, and more physically independent every year.
Many longtime listeners know they both have Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and their journey inspired much of the neuron regeneration research and philanthropy I’m now deeply involved in.
We’re currently funding neural repair experiments through Dr. David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard, exploring ways to reactivate healing in damaged neurons using cellular reprogramming techniques. The early cell reprogramming animal studies in his lab have been incredibly promising, showing up to 5x improvement in neuron repair.
If you’d like to stay updated—or support this mission—visit NeuronRegeneration.com or NeuronRegeneration.com/donate.
Alright… now let’s talk about how to make your memberships as successful as possible.
What You’re Getting Today
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My point of view on the “We don’t want lifelong patients” mindset
The easiest, most natural ways to present memberships during care -
How to plant seeds early in the POC that lead to more “yeses”
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A free download of the exact emails and texts one of my Mastermind member used to generate $34K from memberships in a single campaign
For the full framework and to download those done-for-you templates, visit HERE.
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