Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

Every Day You're Not Cash-Based Is Costing You More Than You Think — Here's How to Fix It

22 May 2026 · 3 min

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In this motivational instructional video, Kelly Alhooie addresses clinicians frustrated with salaried positions, highlighting the constraints of limited time off, excessive paperwork, and insufficient vacation opportunities. She proposes transitioning to a cash‑based practice as a path to greater autonomy and income. Alhooie outlines a concrete, low‑cost roadmap to launch such a practice by 2025, requiring roughly $400 upfront. The plan includes: (1) purchasing a year of CM&F liability insurance (~$400, about $30‑$33 per month); (2) buying a treatment table from Amazon for $99; (3) acquiring basic supplies (chuck pads, lube, gloves, lotion) for about $20; (4) using an existing computer for client notes at no extra cost; (5) processing payments via Venmo; and (6) obtaining a consent form by texting her. She emphasizes that all these steps can be completed in one to two days, enabling clinicians to start earning cash‑based fees immediately, without loans or extensive capital.

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You're freaking tired of working for someone else where you can't take time off, where notes are more important than the patient, and you just want freaking more than one vacation a year with your family. Well, guess what? How you're going to do that is you're going to actually be able to grow a cash-based practice in 2025 with little to no money to start it. And no, you don't need to go to the bank and take out a bank loan. I'm going to show you today how you can start with as little as $400 to start your business. So let's break it down. Here we go. All right. So first thing, what you need to do, number one, I always get some kind of insurance on. So CM&F, okay? CM&F for a whole year, it's about $400. So you pay per month when you start out And that's going to break down to— let's get out a calculator. It should be around— let me see here— divided by 12. Okay, that's gonna be around $30, $33, guys, a month. Okay, now second thing, go to Amazon. Okay, you're gonna order a table. Table is like $99. Okay, then you're gonna order like chuck pads, lube, gloves, lotion. I don't know how to spell lotion, but you know what I mean. All that's probably going to be, I don't know, like $20. It's not much. Okay, $20. Okay, um, the next thing you don't need— you have a computer probably. Okay, so that's number 3. You're just gonna have a computer. You're not— that's going to cost you nothing because you should have that. You're going to use Venmo. Venmo. Okay, to take payment. The computer is going to be for notes. This is for notes, uh, Venmo, and then, um, Consent form. You can text me and I will give you the consent form. Just text me and I'll give it to you. Okay, so 5, text me for consent. Just say, hey Kelly, can you please give me your consent form? I will send that right over to you. Okay, so all of this is literally how you get started in your business. This is all you need. So when this comes in in 3, in 2 days, this only takes 2 days. This takes only a day. So literally you can get your business started in 2 days or less. So if y'all need to start making money and y'all are tired of how the job's treating you, guess what? In 2 days or less, you can actually start your cash-based business. And this is the roadmap to do it. No joke.