Home Health Physical Therapist Assistant — Suru Network

Physical Therapist AssistantContract

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Job Description

  • Are you looking for a more consistent caseload?
  • Are you fed up with limited visits for your patients?
  • Are you tired of constantly needing new patients to keep your caseload up?
  • Do you want to make potentially THOUSANDS more per month in home health?

Join the Suru Network and build a more consistent mobile caseload and earn thousands in extra income with patients who receive higher-frequency visits and remain in treatment longer than traditional home health commonly allows.

Suru provides mobile outpatient physical and occupational therapy in patients' homes, and therapists value the longer treatment relationships, flexible scheduling, and continuity of care.

Join our established network of 50+ PTA and OTA professionals. Suru gives home-health clinicians an easy way to help appropriate patients continue therapy after discharge.

How Does It Work?

You can submit a referral through the Suru mobile app or web app. Suru then confirms the patient's interest, checks insurance eligibility, and arranges a Telehealth evaluation with the appropriate licensed PT or OT. When the patient is clinically ready for follow-up treatment, you may continue seeing the patient in the home.

Suru can also notify you when other patients become available in your service area. You decide whether to accept or decline each opportunity.

Why Clinicians Join the Suru Network

  • Patients receive up to 10x more visits than traditional home health commonly allows.
  • Longer episodes and fewer one-off visits can support a more consistent mobile caseload.

A more consistent caseload can provide meaningful supplemental income. Our clinicians have earned thousands in extra income per month!

Referring a patient is simple: submit the information, and Suru handles eligibility, intake, and the telehealth evaluation before follow-up care begins. Then we hand it back to you to continue care - usually within 3 days.

  • Scheduling and care delivery are flexible.
  • Suru handles intake, eligibility, evaluations, and billing.
  • Visit notes can usually be submitted by voice recording in about one minute.
  • Clinicians choose which available cases to accept.

Pay Rate

  • Clinicians are paid per completed eligible visit.
  • Suru will do its best to match your current home-health or per-visit rate.
  • Direct deposit into your bank every single week.
  • Is Suru a Home Health Agency?

No! We are the ONLY outpatient at home provider that works directly with PTAs and OTAs!

Because we are a not home health agency, we flip the script: no more limited visits, no more complaints about cutting off services. Eligible patients LOVE our system and are grateful to the clinicians who onboard them to our network.

Onboarding is completed through the Suru mobile app or web app. The app collects your professional and business information, service area, availability, and desired rate. Once you are ready to treat, Suru notifies you when a patient is available in your area or when a patient you referred is ready for the next step.

Referrals are optional and unpaid. Referring a patient does not guarantee or prioritize an assignment, and patients remain free to choose their provider. Suru never pays for referrals.

Suru clinicians work as 1099 independent contractors. An LLC is not required, but onboarding requires an active California professional license and a local business license before treating patients.

Apply to join the Suru network today!

Key Responsibilities

Provide mobile outpatient physical and occupational therapy services directly in patients' homes. Manage patient caseloads, submit visit notes via mobile app, and coordinate care following telehealth evaluations.

Requirements

Must hold an active California professional license and a local business license. Experience as a Physical Therapist Assistant or Occupational Therapist Assistant is required.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Physical therapyPatient careClinical documentationInsurance eligibility verificationMobile application usage

Physical Therapist Career Context

In California, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$116k (1,575 salary observations; 4,037 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (15,367 salary observations; 58,956 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Physical Therapy market look like in California?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedPhysical Therapy median $80k (middle half $50k–$90k)24 comparable listings, Oct 2026
California vs national$116k median in California$94k nationally (+24%)1,575 state / 15,367 national salary observations
Cost of livingCalifornia index 110.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Physical Therapy listings in California1,728 active21,886 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top contract/1099 PTA Jobs

21 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

17 jobs · 9 employers
6
<$80k
7
$80k-90k
4
$90k-100k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

19 jobs · 9 employers
401k / retirement match
100%
CME allowance
63%
Sign-on bonus
53%
Loan repayment
32%
Relocation assistance
16%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Physical Therapist Assistant

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$40-$48/hr
#2

Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) Part-Time or Full-Time

EmpowerMe Wellness · San Francisco, California

$39-$48/hr
#3

Physical Therapist Assistant

$40-$45/hr
#4

Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) Part-Time or Full-Time

$37-$44/hr
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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 4.8
Better work-life than 50% of Physical Therapist Assistant listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 4,946 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Suru In-Home Physical Therapy

Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists
Santa Ana, California

Benefits & Perks

Flexible scheduling
Weekly direct deposit
Choose your own cases
Voice-to-text documentation

Living in Vista

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$851k
Typical market rent
$2,726/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
111.9
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.