U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (USPH)
Outpatient physical therapy clinics, 7,294 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 6 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
34%
End of 2028
42%
Employees, annual report
7,294
Leading staffing pattern
Offices of Other Health Practitioners
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now34%
- End of 202739%
- End of 202842%
- End of 203043%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 55%
- Becomes checking a model's work 35%
- Handed over with lighter checks 8%
A physical therapy operator whose filing states 7,294 employees nationwide, 4,200 full-time, with managed practices' staff kept apart, so the whole workforce is read at offices of other health practitioners.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 34% now, 39% at the end of 2027, 42% at the end of 2028, 43% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 43% desk work, 31% people work and 26% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 55% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 35% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
7,294 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Stated in words: approximately 7,294 people nationwide.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 7,294 people nationwide, of which approximately 4,200 were full-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Offices of Other Health Practitioners | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes outpatient physical therapy clinics staffed by licensed clinical professionals with industrial injury prevention services beside them, offices of physical therapists (NAICS 621340), with no count by kind of work, so the whole workforce is read there. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 7,294 people nationwide as of December 31, 2025 (7,028 a year earlier), about 4,200 full-time; therapist-owned practices it manages employ another 801 (453 full-time) who are not its employees; clinical professionals all licensed, most with advanced degrees.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Offices of Other Health Practitioners, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- LifeStance Health Group, Inc. (LFST, 10,961 employees)35% now, 43% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it uses and may increasingly rely on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies in its operations and business processes, and that laws governing AI are uncertain and evolving.
- “The forward-looking statements are based on our current views and assumptions, and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks, uncertainties, and factors, which include, but are not limited to: changes in Medicare rules and guidelines and reimbursement or failure of our clinics to maintain their Medicare certific...”
- “Our use of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, involves inherent risks We use and may increasingly rely on artificial intelligence ("AI") and other emerging technologies in support of our operations and business processes.”
- “In addition, laws and regulations governing the use of AI and related technologies are uncertain and evolving, which could increase compliance costs or restrict the manner in which we operate.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20253median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 7,294 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 7,028 | 2025-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 3,899 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 3,570 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 3,000 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,550 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 5,400 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,600 | 2019-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,300 | 2018-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 3,800 | 2017-06-07 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,400 | 2016-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,151 | 2015-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,805 | 2014-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,677 | 2013-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,522 | 2012-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,338 | 2011-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,132 | 2010-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 2,049 | 2009-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 1,957 | 2008-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 1,506 | 2007-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 1,579 | 2006-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 1,349 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 1,276 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 1,239 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 1,122 | 2002-04-01 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 1,056 | 2001-04-02 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 2 | 2000-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | not read | 1999-03-31 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The 801 employees of therapist-owned practices it manages are not its employees and are not counted (rule 8).
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 from the filing's word nationwide.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001140361-26-007170, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 34% now and 42% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. employ?
- 7,294 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Offices of Other Health Practitioners; by those patterns the work is about 43% desk work, 31% people work and 26% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 3 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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