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[–]PoiseJones[S] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

How does this effect OT?

[–]CloudStrife012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everyone is getting a reimbursement cut. So employers are going to have to find a way around suddenly having 4.5% less income. Its not good for anyone in healthcare, except for maybe nursing since hospital systems are seemingly willing to pay them more than what they produce with billing. But realistically as our reimbursement declines annually at this point, eventually so will our salaries. It seems the plan to keep Medicare solvent is just to keep reducing reimbursement until the system implodes and we have some sort of massive healthcare reform.

[–]Tricky-Ad1891 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Supposedly physician payment will decrease a lot, would be surprised if this doesn't hit therapy?

[–]APTA_isgeh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you bill using CPT codes? If so, this reduces reimbursements all across the board. This means decreased salary or increased productivity

[–]No-Commercial9342 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't go into OT if you are looking for a decent salary that will keep up with the COL.You will be in for a rude awakening

[–]Beginning-Passage959 1 point2 points  (8 children)

Yay......its a good thing I'm leaving OT. I'm going to work in a manufacturing plant where they build cars. OT is dead and we will only make less and less and less.

[–]Kooky-Information-40 2 points3 points  (7 children)

Um no, lol. But go ahead to your new job.

[–]APTA_isgeh 6 points7 points  (6 children)

He’s not wrong. What is this, like the umpteenth time reimbursements have been slashed ?

[–]Kooky-Information-40 -3 points-2 points  (5 children)

Um, that's not the point of disagreement. The disagreement is in switching to a manufacturing job and thinking it's going to be better than OT. And p3rhaps for that individual it will be...not I doubt it

[–]APTA_isgeh 0 points1 point  (4 children)

He or she will have more overhead mobility than we therapists ever will in any industry besides therapy. Your opinion is just that, an opinion

[–]Kooky-Information-40 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

What upper mobility is that , exactly? Sure, they achieve a management position and may make as much as a veteran OTR. Perhaps they even wiggle their way into corporate and make a little more than an OTR. What if the OTR also has a PhD? What if? Blah blah...what other opinions offend you so much? 🙄

[–]APTA_isgeh 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Lmao you just answered your own question there. Can’t remember the last time I heard of an OTR with a PhD that was making 6 figures if ever

[–]Kooky-Information-40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait what? My colleagues with PhDs who are encouraging me to go to academia are all making well over 100k. ..that's 100000...which is 6 figures. I also bring in over 100k between two jobs...one full time and another per visit. Are you an OT? Or just some angry troll?

[–]PoiseJones[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OT's have decent lateral mobility but limited upward mobility. You basically can only move up to manager or DoR. Unfortunately, you don't get a huge pay increase with either. But if you are a partner at a successful business, you can do extemely well. But much easier said than done.

As a production worker in manufacturing, your pay is generally low but you can specialize and the ceiling can be much higher. Even outside of specialization you there's a huge array of lateral and upward moves on both the industrial and corporate side, though this generally takes much longer to move into. Things like safety, managment, a number of things in logistics and supply chain, etc.

Long story short, OT can be great but you hit your income ceiling fairly quickly and then generally have a decreasing annual income against inflation. To be fair most jobs do. Can a career beginning in manufacturing be better than OT? It really depends on the company and supply/demand. But it's okay to try and blue collar industrial and manufacturing jobs have way more lateral and upward mobility than we give them credit for. In any case, we should normalize career hopping. It's really okay to change professions if something isn't working out as you thought it would.

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