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

Physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in Arkansas by the numbers

Arkansas had 775 physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in 2023, according to Census County Business Patterns (NAICS 621340, Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists). They employed 5,846 people in mid-March and reported $287.5 million in annual payroll. That is the 21st highest count among the 51 states and DC with published figures. Physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics make up 1.1% of the 70,452 business establishments in the state.

Per 100,000 residents (2024 estimate) Arkansas has 25.1 physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics, 63.9% above the national rate of 15.3. The average establishment has 7.5 employees against 9.0 nationally. Payroll per employee is $49,176, in line with the U.S. figure of $49,067.

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

Census published physical therapy clinic counts for 20 metro or micropolitan areas that include part of Arkansas. The largest is Little Rock, AR, with 223 establishments. Single-state metro and micropolitan areas account for 73% 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 Arkansas

67.3% of Arkansas's physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics with employees had fewer than five people in March 2023, compared with 56.8% nationally. 83.2% 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 Arkansas

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 Arkansas:

• A patient calls with a new referral after surgery.
• A case manager calls about a workers' compensation patient.
• A patient calls to reschedule several visits around travel.

After-hours calls

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.

What a phone system costs a physical therapy clinic in Arkansas

Physical, occupational and speech therapy clinics in Arkansas average 7.5 employees, so the comparison uses an 8-person team. Per-seat business phone plans bill every one of those people. At month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026, 8 users on RingCentral RingEX Core cost $240.00 a month and 8 on Ooma Office Pro cost $199.60. On Callata the same 8 people cost $159.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $972. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

Area codes in Arkansas

Arkansas has 4 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 Arkansas

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

If you already have a number in Arkansas, 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.