Physical Therapy in Boulder, CO
One therapist, one patient, a full hour, and a price you can read before you book. No aides, no double-booking, no visit cap decided by someone who has never met you.
What Insurance Does to an Hour
Not a criticism of the therapists working in that system — most of them hate it too. It's a description of what the reimbursement model requires of them.
Three Patients at Once
Reimbursement per visit has fallen for years while costs have risen, so clinics see two or three people in the same hour to stay solvent. You get fifteen or twenty minutes of a therapist and forty minutes of an aide.
Visit Caps and Authorisations
How many sessions you get is decided by a plan, not by your progress. Plenty of people are discharged at the point where the interesting work was about to start.
A Bill You Can't Predict
Deductible, co-insurance, in-network status, whether the visit counts as a re-evaluation. Very few people can tell you what a session cost them until months afterwards.
Time Spent on Coding
Documentation built for billing rather than for you. It is a large fraction of a therapist's day and none of it makes anybody better.
What We Do Instead
$185 an hour, on the page, the same for everyone. You get the whole hour with a licensed therapist. Most people need five to eight of them and we'll tell you at the first session roughly how many.
You Can Still Claim
We give you a superbill after every session. If you have out-of-network benefits you submit it and get reimbursed directly — a good number of our patients get most of it back.
Mostly People Who Have Already Tried Something Else
A lot of our caseload is second opinions and unfinished rehab. That's the gap this model is good at filling.
Seven Years, One Room, No Front Desk
Quillmark is one therapist and one treatment room above a shop on Pearl Street. That is the whole business, deliberately.
The previous decade was spent in a high-volume outpatient clinic seeing thirteen or fourteen people a day, which is where the conviction behind this place came from. There is no version of that schedule in which anybody gets an hour of proper attention, and the therapists know it before the patients do.
So: no aides, no double-booking, no billing department, no front desk. You book online, you get the same person every time, and the price has been the same for everyone since we opened.
- ✓One therapist — you see the same person every visit
- ✓A full hour, hands-on, no aides
- ✓Published pricing, identical for everyone
- ✓Superbill after every session for out-of-network claims
Four Things That Follow From the Model
Fewer Sessions, Not More
A cash practice has no incentive to stretch a plan of care and every incentive to get you a result you'd tell someone about. Most people here finish in five to eight sessions. The high-volume model rewards the opposite.
The Hour Is Actually Yours
Assessment, hands-on work, loading, filming, coaching, and the conversation where you ask the question you've been sitting on. Sixty minutes is enough for all of it, which twenty is not.
The Programme Is the Product
You leave with something written, loaded and progressive, and it gets revised every session. The clinic hour is where we check and adjust; the change happens in the six days between.
We'll Tell You If It's Not Us
If you need imaging, an injection, a surgeon or a different discipline, you'll hear it in the first session. Referring you out is a fast way to lose revenue and the only honest thing to do.
Sixty Minutes, Start to Finish
Fifteen Minutes of Questions
History, training load, previous treatment, and what you're actually trying to get back to. The training log is often more diagnostic than the examination.
We Watch You Do the Thing
Run, squat, hang, lift, throw, whatever it is. Filmed if useful. A great deal of what goes wrong is invisible on a treatment table and obvious the moment you load it.
Hands-On and Testing
Manual work where it helps, strength and range measured properly so there's a baseline to argue with in four weeks' time.
You Leave With a Programme
Written, with loads and progressions, in your inbox before you get home — plus an honest estimate of how many sessions this is likely to take.
Mostly Word of Mouth
My insurance-covered clinic gave me twenty minutes with a therapist, forty on a machine with an aide, and twelve visits before it capped out. Six sessions here cost me less than the co-pays did and actually fixed the shoulder.
I'd been running through hip pain for a year. He watched me run, filmed it, changed my cadence and gave me six weeks of strength work. That's it. That was the whole thing and it worked.
Knowing the price before I booked is worth more than people realise. No pre-authorisation, no deductible maths, no bill turning up in March for a session in January.
Above a Shop on Pearl Street
One plinth, a rack, and enough floor to actually move.
The Whole Price List
This is all of it. There is no separate evaluation fee, no equipment charge and no admin fee.
$185 — Single Session (60 min)
Assessment or treatment, the same rate either way. Includes the written programme and any video analysis.
$850 — Block of Five
Saves $75 and covers what most people need end to end. Unused sessions are refunded, no expiry.
Free — Remote Check-Ins
Programme adjustments between sessions by video or message. Included for anyone in an active plan of care.
Free — Superbill Every Visit
Emailed automatically. If you have out-of-network benefits you submit it yourself and get reimbursed directly by your insurer.
Free — Fifteen-Minute Consult
Before you book anything. If we're not the right fit we'll say so and suggest who is.
No — Contracts or Packages You Can't Leave
Nothing auto-renews, nothing is prepaid beyond the block of five, and nobody will call you to rebook.
The Honest Answers
Isn't this more expensive than using my insurance?
Sometimes, and sometimes markedly less. Work out your per-visit cost including deductible and multiply by the number of visits an insurance plan of care actually runs to — commonly twelve to twenty. Five to eight sessions here often lands lower. If you've already met your deductible, in-network is usually cheaper and we'll say so.
Can I claim any of it back?
If your plan has out-of-network benefits, usually yes. We email a superbill with the diagnosis and procedure codes after every session; you submit it and your insurer reimburses you directly. Reimbursement varies a lot, so ring your insurer and ask what they pay for out-of-network physical therapy.
Do I need a referral?
No. Colorado has unrestricted direct access — you can be evaluated and treated by a physical therapist without seeing a physician first, with no time limit.
How many sessions will I need?
Five to eight for most things, and you'll get an estimate at the end of the first session. Complex or post-surgical cases run longer. If we get to the estimate and you're not where we said you'd be, we'll tell you why rather than quietly booking more.
What if I need a scan or a surgeon?
We'll tell you in the first session and help you get there. Colorado permits direct-access physical therapists to refer for imaging in appropriate circumstances, and we have working relationships with local orthopedists and sports physicians.
Do you use an HSA or FSA?
Yes — physical therapy is an eligible expense. Bring the card, pay with it directly, and the superbill covers you for substantiation if your administrator asks.
Talk to the Therapist First
Not a receptionist and not a sales call. If this isn't the right fit we'll tell you and point you somewhere better.
Pearl Street, Boulder
Tell us what's going on and what you want back. We'll reply within one business day.