Advance Multiple Schedule

Hi, this is David Kats with Therapist Consultants, and I have a tip for you.

If you're going to expect your patients to come in and know what they're going to get for care, you should schedule them in advance. I remember the first time I taught a therapist how to advance multiple schedule their patients, she had somebody set up for 18 visits, and she said, "Before you go home, let's go ahead and set up all 18 visits," and they did.

When she came out of the room, the first thing she said to me was, "They actually like to be scheduled in advance." The answer is, "Of course, they do." Don't you want to know what's going to be happening in advance? Wouldn't you like to know about all 18 visits instead of getting strung out one at a time, one at a time, one at a time, have schedule conflicts and things like that? Yes.

Here's what I suggest you do. On the second visit, when you have a knowledge of how many times you're going to see the patient, sit down with that patient, use a 365-day calendar. If you're a client of ours, you can run off our website, else, just go to Microsoft Word and run off a 365-day calendar. Then if you're going to see them 15 times, schedule 15 times, Wednesday at three o'clock, next 15, Wednesdays.

I say, "Are you willing to commit to the next 15 Wednesdays to make this depression issue as good as it can be?" They say yes, and you've scheduled all 15 visits. It's very important. I will tell you this. Our clients say that when they started using advanced multiple scheduling, their practice went up about 30% and it never went back down. That's a great thing to do.

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You can either look at it on our website, which is therapistconsultants.com, or you can go to anywhere wherever you watch your podcast, and just look at my name, David Kats, K-A-T-S, and you'll find our podcast there. Thanks for listening.