Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions) Your first question is coming from Larry Solow of CJS Securities. Please go ahead.
Chris Reading
Hey, good morning, Larry.
Larry Solow – CJS Securities
Good morning, guys. Congratulations. Excellent quarter. Actually, the revenue per patient over $98 is magnificent, especially in light of I know STAR has a considerably lower rate, or a modestly lower rate. Can you maybe just talk about do you think it's sustainable to keep rising? And secondly, maybe go over your productivity measures, units billed per visit and daily visits per therapist?
Chris Reading
I guess to answer your first question, is it sustainable, I'm not going to give you a target although we have some internal, we have some internal goals we set. Toward the end of last year, I think we will get there. Safe to say we're not quite there yet. STAR's net rate is in the mid to upper $89 of visit range, that's a slight improvement over where they were. They're working hard on improving that. I think that will improve and that alone will help our net rate because that gap will close. So, yes, I think in the short-term we can continue to move that. We've seen, and I'm pleased – we met with the managed care group again yesterday, and they had couple more nice success stories. So I think they're making some progress across the country.
And so I think at least in the near-term we can continue to see some positive motion in that. I don't know that we will have absolute quarter-over-quarter, positive motion, but I think in the next few quarters we'll see that number pick up a little bit. In terms of some of the program things, really things we've been working on over the last year, the interesting thing about our clinical partners is that they usually come with a particular clinical specialty and then we add to that over time. So things like cancer related fatigue and some of the balance of (inaudible) prevention things we worked on most recently in the cash based program. We don't have a systematic deployment of those throughout the whole company and as we bring in these groups and they attach themselves to one of the other these programs, that gives us a little boost and some growth. And I think there is still a lot of opportunity to continue to benefit from that right now.
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