Danny Matta: How Cash-Based Care Unlocks Better Outcomes and Why the Traditional Medical Model Fails Patients and Practitioners
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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From Army PT to a successful entrepreneur, Danny Matta’s journey is nothing short of inspirational. Starting as a military physical therapist stationed in Hawaii, he transformed his skills and vision into building multiple successful businesses, including PT Biz, which empowers physical therapists to create and scale thriving cash-based practices.
As the host of the PT Entrepreneur Podcast, one of the most influential physical therapy podcasts, Danny shares insights on patient care, business strategies, and creating sustainable growth.
What You'll Learn in This Episode- How Dr. Danny Matta went from military PT to building a network of physical therapy clinics with over $100M in top-line revenue
- Why the traditional medical model fails both patients and physical therapists
- How cash-based care unlocks better outcomes, higher autonomy, and more income
- The role of clarity, connection, and trust in patient success
- The behind-the-scenes power of partnerships — and how Danny built his business with his wife Ashley
- How PT Biz is helping reshape the future of musculoskeletal care
Discover how Danny's passion for innovation and helping others has impacted thousands of clinicians, revolutionized musculoskeletal care, and reshaped the future of physical therapy. Don't miss this motivating episode packed with valuable lessons for entrepreneurs and health professionals alike!
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's sick care and health care. |
| 0:01.6 | If I'm sick, I want to go to the best hospital I can possibly find. |
| 0:04.0 | But most people are not sick. Where do you go if you're trying to not get sick? That is like health care, in my opinion. We want to teach people how to be healthy and how to stay healthy. It is two adjacent systems, but you're starting to see high-level legit providers in this other world that are starting to get frustrated because they're seeing these problems that they can't really resolve. they can put a band-aid on it, but eventually it creates the same problem over and over again. |
| 0:23.0 | And that can be really challenging for them. Danny Matey. Danny Matey is an entrepreneur and founder of PT Bids. Which helps physical therapists to not only start their own practice, but start it in with, allows them to scale. Danny has built multiple seven-figure businesses. Host of the PT Entreprene podcast, which is one of the most successful physical every podcast on the planet. I mean, if you decided that you were going to, this is like what you were doing for your life. Like, was it a difficult decision or was it just like, no way I see the future. I'm ready to do this. What was that transition like? No, I think it was, I don't think it was easy. You know, it's... |
| 0:56.0 | Danny Matey, welcome to the Ready State podcast. Thanks for having me. So excited to chat with y'all. |
| 1:01.7 | This is very long overdue. And finally, I just want to say, Danny, just for everyone knows, |
| 1:06.7 | we've known Danny for a long, long time. Danny and I were basically teenage punks together, |
| 1:12.2 | walking shirtless in the beach in Hawaii |
| 1:13.8 | when we realized we were married to the same woman, |
| 1:17.2 | had the same aspirations. |
| 1:18.6 | You have become a phenom. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm still stuck digging a ditch. |
| 1:24.1 | I can't believe that you finally have amounted to something to end up on the Ready |
| 1:28.9 | Stay podcast. |
| 1:30.1 | You have been such an integral partner of my thinking and development as a coach and as a |
| 1:38.3 | practitioner and as a friend for over a decade. |
| 1:41.2 | It was forever. |
| 1:42.0 | So I'm just really excited to introduce everyone to what you're doing and how you're |
| 1:46.3 | overturning some serious carts. |
| 1:49.0 | And just on that note, maybe you could just talk a little bit about your origin story |
| 1:55.9 | and your Kelly and Danny origin story. |
| 1:59.3 | We'll set it up everyone to know what you do, but give us a high level of how you became |
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