Deptly

Physical therapy, chiropractic & rehab

Fill evaluation slots and keep plans of care on track—without running the phones from the treatment table.

Deptly helps physical therapy, chiropractic, and rehab practices turn more inquiries into booked evaluations and finished plans of care — and carries the new-patient calls that arrive mid-session, the cancellation and drop-off follow-up, and the intake, referral, and payment paperwork in between — while diagnosis, treatment, and every clinical decision stay with your licensed clinicians.

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What does Deptly do for physical therapy, chiropractic & rehabilitation?

Deptly is a managed service for physical therapy, chiropractic, and rehab practices. It answers new-patient calls and messages while your clinicians treat, books evaluations under your rules, reschedules cancellations inside the visit frequency each plan of care prescribes, reaches out before mid-plan drop-off becomes a quiet discharge, chases intake forms and referral scripts before eval day, and follows self-pay balances and membership payments within your policy. Diagnosis, treatment, and every clinical decision stay with your licensed clinicians.

Sound familiar?

Five moments from the way this work actually runs — not because anyone is careless, but because the loop depends on whoever is busiest.

  • You're mid-session, hands on a patient's shoulder, when the phone rings up front. By the time you call back at 12:40, the caller has booked with the clinic that answered.

  • The visit-7 patient in a twelve-visit plan cancels Tuesday morning and says she'll call back to reschedule. She doesn't — and nobody notices until the monthly chart review.

  • Monday, 6:50 AM: two cancellation texts came in overnight. You rebuild the day's schedule on your phone between your 7 o'clock and your 8 o'clock.

  • A new eval arrives with no intake done and no referral script on file, so the first fifteen minutes of a 60-minute slot go to paperwork and a call to the physician's office.

  • A wellness-plan patient's card failed twice in March. It's May. The plan is technically still active, and nobody has followed up.

Why this happens

Revenue in a rehab practice doesn't arrive as appointments — it arrives as plans of care. An evaluation is worth what the plan behind it completes: a twelve-visit prescription that ends quietly at visit seven leaves outcomes unfinished and a schedule full of holes that look like bad luck. And drop-off is silent by design. A cancellation without a reschedule doesn't announce itself; it just becomes an empty slot, and the patient becomes a name that surfaces weeks later at chart review.

The person best positioned to catch all of this is the treating clinician — who is hands-on in hour blocks all day, with documentation waiting at lunch and after close. In owner-operated clinics there may be no front desk at all; in bigger ones, the desk is checking patients in, not watching visit cadence across the whole caseload. So the callback, the reschedule, and the drifting patient become between-patients tasks, then after-close tasks, then quietly no one's tasks.

The clinical boundary makes it harder in a way most schedulers ignore: whoever covers the phone hesitates to answer anything that might brush clinical territory — 'should I ice it?', 'is it normal to be sore?' — so messages sit, and the clinician gets pulled out of a session anyway. Deptly is built for exactly that line. It carries the routine layer inside templates your clinicians approve, and hands the clinical layer to your team, flagged, with the patient's own words attached.

What Deptly handles here

Three complete responsibilities — each with a trigger, the actions carried, the escalation point, and what done actually means.

Responsibility 1

Turn every inquiry into a booked, ready evaluation

Starts when
A new-patient call, website form, or physician referral arrives while your clinicians are in sessions — or at 9 PM, when nobody is.
What Deptly does
  • Answers in your voice within minutes, on the phone line and channels you already use — after hours included
  • Applies your intake rules: referral required, direct access, or the screening questions you define, so the right patients land in eval slots
  • Books the evaluation into your real schedule and explains self-pay rates, visit length, and what to bring from your approved answers
  • Sends intake and consent forms right away and requests the referral script from the physician's office when your rules require one
  • Confirms and reminds on your cadence, so the eval slot you protected actually gets used
Comes to you when
Clinical questions — 'can PT help my herniated disc?', 'is it safe to train before the eval?' — route to a clinician with the thread attached, never answered by guess. Insurance questions beyond your approved language go to you or your biller.

Every inquiry ends as a booked evaluation with paperwork done before arrival, or a recorded no with the reason — and the weekly brief shows exactly which.

Responsibility 2

Keep plans of care on schedule and catch drop-off early

Starts when
A patient cancels or no-shows mid-plan, drifts past the visit frequency their plan of care prescribes, or comes due for a re-evaluation or care-plan review.
What Deptly does
  • Reschedules cancellations the same week, inside the frequency the treating clinician prescribed — not whenever the calendar happens to reopen
  • Offers the vacated slot to a matched waitlist, so the schedule heals instead of gapping
  • Watches visit cadence across the caseload and reaches out to drifters before a missed week becomes a quiet self-discharge
  • Flags patients approaching re-evaluation or the end of a care plan, so the next-step conversation happens in the clinic, not by accident
  • Follows failed membership and package payments politely, within the retry-and-reminder policy you set
Comes to you when
A patient who says they're worse, wants to stop because of pain, or asks whether they still need care goes straight to their clinician, flagged, with their words attached. Pause and refund requests come to you.

The cadence report in your weekly brief shows everyone due, everyone rebooked, and everyone contacted — so no plan of care quietly ends at visit seven.

Responsibility 3

Carry the intake, referral, and payment paperwork

Starts when
An evaluation approaches without paperwork on file, a referral script is missing or expiring, or a balance ages past the window you set.
What Deptly does
  • Chases intake, consent, and health-history forms before eval day, so sessions start on time instead of starting with a clipboard
  • Requests scripts, referrals, and post-op protocols from physician and surgeon offices with polite persistence, and logs every attempt
  • Sends self-pay invoices and superbills on your schedule and policy
  • Follows outstanding balances in your voice, on your timing, before they age into awkwardness
  • Keeps confirmations, reminders, and reschedules flowing so the schedule your clinicians walk into matches reality
Comes to you when
Billing disputes, hardship conversations, and contested balances come to you as a clear summary — never handled by script. Anything clinical in a paperwork thread routes to a clinician immediately.

Patients arrive with paperwork complete, referring offices get answered instead of forgotten, and the weekly brief shows what was collected, what's pending, and the few items that need you.

One job, before and with Deptly

The same signal, followed all the way to a verified outcome instead of waiting on whoever is busiest.

Today

  • Tuesday, 7:05 AM: a text arrives — 'Something came up at work, I can't make my 10:30. I'll call to reschedule.' It's visit seven of a twelve-visit plan.
  • You're treating until noon. The text gets a thumbs-up between patients and joins the list in your head.
  • The 10:30 slot sits empty. The reschedule call never comes — hers or yours.
  • Three weeks later her name surfaces at chart review: five visits left, feeling 'mostly better,' quietly gone.
  • She never finishes the plan, and the schedule shows the gap as bad luck instead of a fixable leak.

With Deptly

  • Tuesday, 7:05 AM: the same text arrives.
  • By 7:09 she has a warm reply with three same-week openings that keep her at the twice-a-week frequency her plan prescribes.
  • She books Thursday 4:15. The vacated 10:30 is offered to the waitlist patient who asked for mornings.
  • Her therapist sees a one-line note before Thursday's session: rescheduled from Tuesday, plan on track.
  • The weekly brief shows every mid-plan cancellation rebooked inside its frequency — and one drifter flagged for outreach.Closed loop

Start from the outcome you want

The same responsibilities, prioritized differently depending on what you are trying to change first.

Book the evaluations you never hear about

The expensive inquiries are the ones that reach voicemail. Deptly answers the new-patient call while you're still hands-on, replies to the 9 PM 'do I need a referral?' form fill before the caller tries the next clinic, reaches out to patients discharged months ago when the reactivation timing your clinicians set says they're due, and asks the patient who just finished a strong plan of care for the review while the result is fresh. Same clinicians, same treatment hours — more of the demand you already earn becoming booked evaluations.

Start from the outcome: Grow

What Deptly handles, asks about, and never decides

Every responsibility above runs inside this boundary. You set the rules; anything outside them waits for you.

Deptly handles

Routine work done within the rules you approve.

  • Answers routine scheduling, hours, and self-pay rate questions in your voice — including the 9 PM form fills
  • Books evaluations under your intake rules — referral required, direct access, or the screening questions you define
  • Reschedules cancellations inside the visit frequency each plan of care prescribes, and offers the opening to a matched waitlist
  • Runs drop-off, re-evaluation, and reactivation outreach on the timing your clinicians set
  • Chases intake forms, consent paperwork, and referral scripts before evaluation day
  • Follows self-pay balances, packages, and membership payments within your written policy

Deptly asks first

Anything judgment-shaped waits for your okay.

  • Exceptions to your cancellation, no-show, or late-fee policy
  • Discounts, package changes, or payment arrangements beyond your published options
  • Any message that reads as a complaint or a concern about care
  • Booking anything your protocols say needs a referral, evaluation, or clinician sign-off first
  • Anything without an approved template

Always human

The decisions that stay yours, always.

  • Diagnosis, treatment, and every plan-of-care decision — those belong to your licensed PTs and chiropractors
  • Symptom questions and anything that reads like new or worsening pain — routed to a clinician immediately, flagged urgent
  • Discharge, re-evaluation findings, and medical-necessity documentation — Deptly tracks the dates, never the judgment
  • The evaluation and the hands-on care themselves — Deptly gets the patient booked, informed, and ready; the clinical encounter is your team's

The full rulebook — approvals, escalation, and audit history — lives on trust and control.

Who this covers

Each one gets the same execution engine — these notes call out what actually changes.

Physical therapy clinics

The eval-to-plan-of-care engine, where the costly leak is mid-plan drop-off — the visit-seven patient who feels 'mostly better' and quietly stops. Intake rules vary by state and payer, so Deptly applies yours exactly: direct-access booking where you allow it, referral chasing where you don't, and cadence watching across the whole caseload so unfinished plans stop hiding in the schedule.

Cash-based & out-of-network PT

Patients paying premium rates expect premium communication — a same-hour reply about your eval rate, a superbill that arrives without being asked, a package conversation that gets followed to a decision. Deptly quotes only your published rates, sends superbills and invoices on your policy, and follows package and plan-of-care proposals the way your best front desk would if they ever had a quiet hour.

Chiropractic care

A different rhythm: higher visit frequency, same-day and walk-in demand, care plans that taper into wellness memberships. The growth engine is reactivation — the relief-phase patient who lapses after week three, the membership card that fails twice with nobody following. Deptly runs reactivation and payment follow-up on the timing you set, and protects same-day capacity when the schedule compresses.

Sports rehab & post-surgical recovery

This work runs on other people's paperwork and other people's timelines — the surgeon's faxed script and protocol, the athlete's season calendar, the post-op patient who needs visit one scheduled before the referral goes cold. Deptly chases documents from physician and surgeon offices with polite persistence and keeps referring practices informed, because the next referral depends on how the last one was handled. Return-to-play and progression calls stay with your clinicians, always.

Systems we commonly work in

  • Phone calls & SMS on your existing business lineConfirmed
  • Email & calendarConfirmed
  • Jane AppPossible
  • WebPTPossible
  • Prompt EMRPossible
  • ChiroTouchPossible
  • Legacy EMR, clearinghouse & insurance-verification setupsScoped in discovery

Confirmed means standard channels every business already has — phone, text, email, and calendar. Possible means the platform supports what the workflow needs. Anything marked scoped in discovery gets verified during discovery before we commit to it — Deptly works within the tools you already have, as described on how it works.

See the loop close

Every proof item on this site is labeled for exactly what it is.

Workflow Demonstration

A 9 PM back-pain inquiry becomes a booked, ready evaluation

  1. Website form

    Threw my back out moving boxes over the weekend and it's not settling. Can a PT see me this week? Do I need a referral from my doctor first?

    Tuesday 9:12 PM

  2. Deptly → Marcus

    Hi Marcus — sorry your back is giving you trouble. No referral needed to start here: you can book a physical therapy evaluation directly. Dana has Thursday 7:30 AM or Friday 4:15 PM open for a 60-minute eval. Want one of those?

    9:14 PM

  3. Marcus

    Thursday 7:30, please. One more thing — is it safe to stretch it before then?

    9:20 PM

  4. Deptly

    Books Thursday 7:30 in the schedule, sends intake forms and what-to-wear instructions, and tells Marcus the stretching question is one for his therapist — flagged for Dana with his exact words, no advice improvised.

    9:22 PM

  5. Deptly → Dana

    Needs your OK

    New eval Thursday 7:30: Marcus R., acute low back after lifting. He asked overnight whether stretching before the visit is okay — his message is attached. Send your standard pre-eval guidance, or will you reply directly?

    Wednesday 7:45 AM

  6. D

    Owner brief

    Friday 5:00 PM

    inbox

    Three after-hours inquiries became booked evaluations this week, each with intake complete before arrival. One clinical question was flagged to Dana and answered before 8 AM. Nothing waited in the inbox.

More demonstrations live on proof and examples.

Questions owners ask

Yes — that line is the design. Scheduling, visit length, self-pay rates, parking, and what to wear get answered from the language your team approves. Anything clinical — 'can PT help my sciatica?', 'is it normal to be sore after an adjustment?' — routes to a clinician with the patient's exact words attached. Deptly never improvises an answer that belongs to a license.

That's the clinic this branch was built for. Calls and messages get answered in your voice while you're hands-on, evaluations get booked into your real schedule under your rules, and reschedules happen without you touching your phone between sessions. You see a short brief instead of a voicemail queue — and the clinical flags reach you the moment they matter, not at lunch.

You define that during setup — direct-access booking where your state and your policies allow it, referral-first where they don't, and any screening questions your clinicians want asked before an eval is offered. Deptly applies those rules exactly and asks you when a situation doesn't fit them, rather than guessing. When a referral is required, chasing the script from the physician's office is part of the job.

Messages go out as your clinic, on your existing numbers and channels, in wording you approved. Deptly doesn't pretend to be a specific person, and if a patient asks directly, it doesn't lie. What patients tend to notice is simpler: the clinic that answered at 9 PM, remembered their plan of care, and had the paperwork ready before they arrived.

Those are exactly the platforms this branch tends to run on, and working inside your existing system is the model — Deptly reads real openings, writes real bookings, and logs follow-up where your team already looks. What each platform exposes varies, so your specific setup is confirmed during discovery rather than promised up front. Older EMRs and clearinghouse-heavy setups usually start with that discovery conversation.

Seriously and narrowly. Access is least-privilege — Deptly touches only the systems and fields a workflow needs — routine scheduling messages avoid clinical detail by design, and every action is logged. Your specific privacy and compliance requirements, including how patient information may appear in messages and what a business-associate relationship requires, are mapped with you during setup before anything goes live.

That message never waits in a queue. Anything that reads like new or worsening symptoms routes straight to the treating clinician, flagged urgent, with the full thread attached — and the patient gets only an approved acknowledgment that their clinician is being notified. Triage is clinical work, and it stays that way.

The outreach follows the plan, not a sales cadence. A cancellation gets same-week options at the frequency the clinician prescribed; a drifter gets a warm check-in on the timing your team sets; a patient who says they're done gets recorded, and the outreach stops. Most unfinished plans of care weren't decisions — the patient just never heard from the clinic again. Fixing that reads as attentiveness, not pressure.

Yes — within the policy you write. Invoices and superbills go out on your schedule, package and membership payments that fail get a polite retry-and-reminder sequence in your voice, and balances get followed before they age into awkwardness. Disputes, hardship conversations, and anything contested come to you as a summary rather than being handled by script.

Yes — that chasing is one of the quiet time sinks this branch carries. Deptly requests scripts, referrals, and post-op protocols from physician and surgeon offices, follows up with polite persistence until the document arrives, logs every attempt, and keeps the referring office informed about their patient within the boundaries you set. Your clinicians read protocols; Deptly just makes sure they arrive before the patient does.

Pricing follows scope — which workflows Deptly carries, how much volume moves through them, and which systems are involved — rather than a per-seat software tier. A single high-value workflow, like new-patient response or plan-of-care follow-up, is a common starting point. The pricing page explains the models and what's included, and a scoped recommendation comes from a short conversation about your caseload.

No — it carries what they never get a quiet hour for: the cadence watching across the whole caseload, the reschedule follow-through, the referral chasing, the balance follow-up that slips when the waiting room is full. Your front desk stays with the patients in front of them, your clinicians stay in sessions, and the between-work stops depending on spare attention that doesn't exist.

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