$670-$1,345: AI audit for physio practices

You have typed some version of "how much does an AI audit cost for a physical therapy practice" into a search bar because you are done reading vendor pages that talk around the number without ever landing on it. You have sat through a demo before, been told a tool would pay for itself, and watched it sit half-used in your practice management system six months later. This time you want the honest figure before you pick up the phone, not after.

The number, converted honestly

AI Health Practice's entry offer, the AI Opportunity & Growth Assessment, is priced in the UK at £495 to £995 depending on practice size. At the mid-market exchange rate of £1 = $1.3529, checked via XE.com on 20 August 2026, that converts to roughly $670 to $1,345. Exchange rates move daily, so treat this as an approximate conversion at time of publication, not a fixed quote; the exact figure for your practice, in your currency, is confirmed on the discovery call before any payment changes hands.

That range sits well below what most standalone AI consulting engagements are built to charge. General AI consultants in the US commonly bill $150 to over $1,000 an hour, with independent consultants clustering around $150 to $350 an hour and ongoing retainers running $2,000 to $10,000 a month (Stack, "AI Consultant Salary & Pricing Guide," 2026, an industry compilation rather than an association-published figure, flagged accordingly). Most of that market is built for retainers and open-ended scope, not a fixed-price, single-engagement answer sized for a three-clinician clinic. So what this means for you: if the number you have been quoted elsewhere started with a comma after the first digit, you were likely talking to the wrong kind of firm for a practice your size.

What the fee actually buys

The assessment scores your practice against four dimensions of the CARE Framework™: Clinical workflow (note automation, diagnostic support), Administrative burden (scheduling, billing, referrals), Readiness (staff, systems, data quality), and Economics (ROI model, payback period). You get a written report ranking your specific opportunities by where the return is highest, plus a 90-day roadmap for acting on them. It is not a sales pitch dressed up as an audit. If your readiness score is low or the economics do not support AI spend right now, the report says so, and names what would need to change before revisiting it.

So what this means for you: you are not paying for a vendor recommendation. You are paying for someone with no stake in which tool you eventually buy to tell you which parts of your practice would actually move the needle, and which parts would not.

How long it takes

Two weeks from the initial discovery call to delivery of the full report and presentation. Your own time commitment is roughly 2.5 to 3 hours across a short questionnaire and interviews, not a multi-week internal project. For an owner who is already the clinician, the manager, and the person doing admin until 8pm, that time cost is deliberately kept small.

Whether it is worth booking

Two things make this a reasonable first step rather than another sales conversation. First, the front-desk cost problem is real and measurable: median front-desk salary cost for a US physio practice runs about $38,000 a year (ZipRecruiter, June 2026), before counting what actually gets missed during lunch, after 7pm, or on a second simultaneous call. Second, the competitive backdrop is not standing still. A peer-reviewed JAAOS study counted 2,591 private-equity-affiliated outpatient physical therapy clinics in the US by 2024, roughly 7% of the market, with the PE deal count growing nearly 44-fold since 2010 (see our earlier data-drop, "7% of US physio clinics are now PE-owned," August 2026). What those groups buy with acquisition capital, mostly operational consistency across sites, is exactly the layer a $670-$1,345 audit is built to identify for an independent practice at a fraction of the cost.

The evidence also suggests most practices your size have not sorted this out yet. In a 2026 survey of 550 US rehab therapy practices, only about one in three had adopted basic automation tools like digital intake, smart scheduling, or automated billing, and just one in five used AI for anything beyond documentation (Prompt Health, "2026 Practice Growth Index," a practice-management software vendor's own survey, vendor-sourced and flagged accordingly). That is not a reason to rush. It is a reason a scored, independent read of your own practice, not a generic list of tools, is worth more than another vendor demo right now.

The call: if admin load, staffing cost, or inconsistent front-desk coverage already show up as a problem you can name, book the discovery call and find out where the return actually sits before spending on any specific tool. If nothing in your practice currently points to a gap, the honest move is to wait, not to buy something to fill the silence.

Ready to see where your own practice scores? Book a free 20-minute discovery call, or read the full breakdown of the AI Opportunity & Growth Assessment first.

See also: how physio AI phone agents compare on price and fit, and the physio AI billing verdict for two of the specific opportunity areas an audit typically scores.

Related: 7% of US physio clinics are now PE-owned · $45 vs quote-only: the physio AI phone agent verdict · $237 vs quote-only: the physio AI billing verdict