Business phone system for physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in Arizona

How many physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics operate in Arizona

County Business Patterns counts 1,219 establishments in Arizona classified as Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists (NAICS 621340) for 2023. They employed 11,555 people in mid-March and reported $518.3 million in annual payroll. That is the 13th highest count among the 51 states and DC with published figures. Physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics make up 0.75% of the 162,845 business establishments in the state.

Per 100,000 residents (2024 estimate) Arizona has 16.1 physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics, 5.0% above the national rate of 15.3. The average establishment has 9.5 employees against 9.0 nationally. Payroll per employee is $44,855, 8.6% below the U.S. figure of $49,067.

Physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics by metro area in Arizona

Census published physical therapy clinic counts for 10 metro or micropolitan areas that include part of Arizona. The largest is Phoenix, AZ, with 897 establishments. Single-state metro and micropolitan areas account for 99% of the statewide total; the rest are outside any published area or in areas Census suppressed.

Team sizes at physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in Arizona

56.2% of Arizona's physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics with employees had fewer than five people in March 2023, compared with 56.8% nationally. 78.3% had fewer than ten. That is the size of team where a missed call usually means nobody was free, not that nobody was on staff.

Why the phone matters for physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in Arizona

Therapy plans of care involve many visits over several weeks, so clinics spend a large share of phone time scheduling and confirming. Referral sources and payers also call to check on authorizations and progress.

A few of the calls that come in to physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in Arizona:

• A physician's office calls to send a referral.
• A patient calls to reschedule several visits around travel.
• The clinic calls patients to fill a cancelled slot.

Calls after closing time

After-hours calls are usually scheduling requests or questions about the first visit.

Callata voicemail is transcribed and triaged for urgency, and business-hours routing decides where calls go once you close.

Phone system pricing for a 9-person physical therapy clinic

Physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in Arizona average 9.5 employees, so the comparison uses a 9-person team. On a per-user plan that headcount sets the bill: $224.55 a month on Ooma Office Pro or $270.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core at list price (checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 9 people cost $179.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $1,092. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

Area codes in Arizona

Arizona has 5 geographic area codes in service according to NANPA. You can choose local numbers in the area codes your patients know, subject to carrier inventory, or port your current number for free.

How Callata works for physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in Arizona

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Arizona, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.

Practices that handle protected health information should review their own privacy obligations before recording calls, enabling AI summaries or texting appointment details, and keep clinical conversations out of text messages unless their policies allow it.