Should therapy admin staff must carry % patient load ?

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A small facility. We planing to have two therapy teams and two administrators

overseeing these teams. Both therapy teams have staff strength around 9-12

including PTs, OTs, STs and assistants.

My questions to the group...

In these days of decreasing reimbursements and " do more with less "

Is it justified to have full time administrative staff with no patient care

responsibilities ?

Is it a reasonable expectation for administrative/supervisory staff to carry a

25-50% patient care load ? Specially if the teams are relatively small.

More importantly, is there an Industry standard or statistic that can be

referred to, to justify that administrative staff must carry a compulsory

patient load ..

and

what is the average percentage of case load that administrative/supervisory

staff must carry ?

Thanks

Nat

MI