Pros
Make your own schedule. Usually a competitive salary.
Cons
Low PTO which is important when patients cancel and you may end up having to use PTO to make up the difference for your quota. Quota driven...do whatever to reach that quota, including overutilization of insurance benefits. While starting salary is competitive, there is very little recognition of how a therapist handles this job requiring a lot of unpaid hours between travel and planning schedule. So in terms of encouraging a Clinician to remain on the team, there is little support in this nature, which is understandable with their preference for hiring new grads. Instead of giving experienced clinicians a reason to stay, they've banked on these clinicians not wanting to find new jobs, and if they do, they just higher a new grad at a lower salary anyway. The benefit of new grads for thus company: creating a cult like environment. "Advocate for your patients," has been warped into overutilization...because they have thousands of clinicians across the US, they are sending likely over 10000 claims per day...banking on the fact that even of they have a few of these claims flagged, they still have many others going through. CMS simply cannot keep up and new grads may not question this kind of culture.