Today's guest is one of my most favorite people in this whole world, Vince Clark, aka Edgar Vincent Clark.

Vince and I share the same wavelength on so many different dysphagia related topics, but one thing we are both so passionate

about is access to instrumentation and not just access but encouraging all

SLPs to understand the financials behind what we do so that they can appropriately

advocate for services for their patients.

So Vince is someone that I think all SLPs who are treating this phasia should aspire

to be. First and foremost, patient care

and doing right by the patient is paramount in his practice. Second, he

understands the financials behind everything we do in diagnostics, treatment, as well as end of life care and knows where

the research and policies are all located so that he is able to educate any DOR or administrator

that may attempt to deny access to equipment or therapy materials.

Vince is currently the Director of Dysphasia Diagnostics for Integra Rehab, which is part of a much larger nonprofit organization called Community Health Services

that provides services to thousands of patients throughout the state of Georgia.

Vince currently is in charge of their mobile fees program.

So if there is anyone in the state of Georgia that is interested in having mobile fees services in their facility,

get in contact with him.

I'll leave his contact information in the show notes for you to get because they do contract

with outside facilities.

In this episode, we discuss the cost of instrumental assessments and how they are not only

a cost savings but can be revenue generating and also

the financials associated with therapy materials as well as where to locate all of

the regulations. And as always you can check out the show notes for this episode

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