Occupational Therapy Video Statistics

Key takeaways

1. Occupational therapists’ channels posted 18.8% of YouTube’s 255 most-viewed ‘occupational therapy’ and ‘occupational therapist’ videos and drew 23.7% of their views; one adaptive-equipment channel held 69.9% of the OT views, and without it OTs drew 8.5% (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
2. Titles about the job itself (careers, OT school, day in the life) made up 37.6% of the sample and drew 22.3% of its views; videos of 60 seconds or less drew 62.4% of the views (our read). (Mark Studios) See details
3. Original Medicare allowed 421,681 occupational therapy evaluations on professional claims in 2024, up 39.0% from 303,305 in 2019; 97.9% of the providers billing them were occupational therapists in private practice (our calculation from CMS data). (CMS, Mark Studios) See details
4. Employers counted 162,450 wage and salary occupational therapists in May 2025 at a median wage of $100,330, 2.0 times the median for all jobs; BLS puts 2.5 percent of OTs in self-employment. (BLS) See details
5. OTs in elementary and secondary schools earned a median $85,610 in May 2025, 12.6% below the $97,940 median in therapist and audiologist offices (BLS OEWS, our calculation). (BLS, Mark Studios) See details
6. Our count of Florida’s licence search on November 5, 2026 found 13,368 occupational therapist licences in a practicing status, including 1,132 in Broward, 853 in Palm Beach and 142 in Martin County. (Mark Studios) See details
7. BLS projects 14.8 percent growth for occupational therapists and 21.5 percent for OT assistants from 2025 to 2035; its list of the 20 fastest-growing occupations includes OT assistants, at 21%, but not occupational therapists. (BLS) See details
8. The ‘1 in 6 children has sensory processing disorder’ figure traces to a 2009 study in which 16% of parents said at least four touch or sound sensations bothered their child; the 2004 kindergarten screening study behind ‘1 in 20’ estimated 5.3%. (AJOT, J Abnorm Child Psychol) See details

Who makes the most-viewed occupational therapy videos on YouTube?

Occupational therapists' own channels posted 18.8% of the most-viewed occupational therapy and occupational therapist videos on YouTube on November 5, 2026 and drew 23.7% of their lifetime views (our count). We read YouTube's own view-sorted search results for 'occupational therapy' and 'occupational therapist', the first four pages of results for each, through the YouTube Data API, with no country filter. A third search we planned, 'sensory activities', was not collected: the API's daily search quota ran out before it could run. The two lists held 255 unique videos from 176 channels, with 73.0 million lifetime views in all, and the median video had 67,808 views. The lists overlap heavily: 142 videos appeared in both.

We sorted every channel by hand from its own title, description and video text. An occupational therapist here is any channel whose own text calls its owner an occupational therapist, OT, OTR, COTA or OT assistant, anywhere in the world; 18 channels qualified, with 48 videos. One account carries most of their reach: EquipMeOT, a licensed OT's channel of adaptive-equipment demonstrations, held 69.9% of the views that OT channels drew, and its short 'No sock aid, no problem!' was the second result in both lists, with 7,364,893 views. Without EquipMeOT, OT channels drew 8.5% of the remaining views (our calculation).

The top result in both lists was not made by an OT. It was a disability advocate's short about getting a splint made by her occupational therapist, with 18,471,272 views: 25.3% of all the views in the sample. Leaving that one video out, OT channels drew 31.7% of the remaining views. The 5 biggest channels held 56.1% of all views, and the 10 biggest 67.4%.

The source is our hand classification of all 176 channels (YouTube Data API, November 5, 2026). Hospitals, health systems and NHS trusts posted 30 of the videos and universities and colleges 24, mostly programme and career videos. OT students' own channels posted 6. The median OT's video had 75,093.5 lifetime views.

How many of those OT channels are U.S.-based, and how many state a credential?

U.S.-placed OTs' channels posted 24 of the 255 videos on November 5, 2026 and drew 6.2% of the views (our count). We counted an OT as U.S.-placed when the channel's country setting was the United States or its own text named a U.S. city, state or 'the US'; only 2 of the 18 OT channels placed themselves in the United States in their own text, and 11 were U.S.-placed either way.

4 of the 18 OT channels stated a credential in their own text: licensed, certified, OTR, COTA or a Doctor of Occupational Therapy degree. The other 14 gave only the job title. Channels that stated a credential drew 16.9% of all views, most of it EquipMeOT's, and channels that gave only the job title 6.8%. U.S.-placed OTs who stated a credential ran 3 of the 176 channels and drew 0.4% of the views. NBCOT awards the OTR and COTA certifications and state boards issue licences; a channel's own wording is the only evidence we used, and we did not check any licence or certification.

How much of the most-viewed OT video is about the job itself?

A lot. Titles about the profession itself, meaning careers, salaries, OT school and degrees, 'day in the life' videos and explainers of what occupational therapy is, made up 37.6% of the 255 videos on November 5, 2026 and drew 22.3% of the views (our count, regex on titles). Career, salary, school, degree and course titles alone were 18.0% of the videos; 27 were 'day in the life' videos of an OT, OT assistant or OT student, and 27 explained what occupational therapy is or does. The share was higher for 'occupational therapist', at 42.4% of that list, than for 'occupational therapy', at 37.2%. Career and course-guidance channels, many of them Indian admission and course portals, posted 24 of the videos.

The people making career content are mostly not OTs: only 8 of the 48 videos on OTs' own channels had a title about the profession. Their other videos showed techniques, exercises and equipment. By search, OTs' channels posted 19.2% of the 'occupational therapist' results and drew 25.6% of their views, against 13.1% of the 'occupational therapy' results and 19.2% of their views.

What therapy topics show up, and how long are the videos?

Pediatric and sensory topics lead the therapy content. Titles about sensory processing, sensory integration, regulation or hyperactivity made up 11.8% of the videos, and titles naming autism or ADHD 11.8% (our count, regex on titles). Only 14 titles were about daily-living tasks or adaptive equipment, but they drew 15.6% of the views, mostly EquipMeOT's. 8 titles were about hand therapy, splints, tendons or the wrist, thumb or shoulder, 11 about stroke, brain or spinal cord injury, Parkinson's or heart surgery, 12 about fine motor skills and only 4 about handwriting. Only 2 titles were about older adults, dementia, falls or home safety.

Short videos drew the views: videos of 60 seconds or less were 35.7% of the videos and drew 62.4% of the views, while videos over 20 minutes were 5.5% of the videos and drew 1.1%. 29.0% of the videos were published in 2024 or later. Only 8 videos were set as made for kids (our read of videos.list part=status), and YouTube's altered or synthetic content field was absent from all 255. Channels whose country setting was the United States posted 32.5% of the videos and drew 49.2% of the views; channels set to India posted 21.2% of the videos.

How much do AOTA, NBCOT and OT sellers post on YouTube?

AOTA, the U.S. professional association, which also accredits OT and OTA programmes through ACOTE, posted 67 videos to YouTube in the year to November 5, 2026, with a median of 32 views each (our read of the YouTube Data API). Its channel had 12,900 subscribers and 1,657,373 lifetime views, and 5 of its videos were in the search sample, the highest at rank 16. NBCOT, which certifies OTRs and COTAs, posted 2 videos in the same year and had 394 subscribers.

Four sellers into the OT market posted 260 videos in the year, with a median of 467.5 views (our count). The teletherapy firm Expressable and the sensory-product seller Harkla each posted 91: Expressable's median video had 230 views and its top one 44,215, while Harkla, with 54,800 subscribers, had a median of 1,943. Presence, which sells teletherapy to PreK-12 schools, posted 37 with a median of 36 views; 73.0% of them ran 60 seconds or less. OT Potential, which sells continuing education to OTs, posted 41 with a median of 377. Only Harkla and OT Potential had a video in the search sample, one each, and the higher was at rank 125 (our count).

How many occupational therapists use telehealth?

Some do, but for a small share of their work. In a survey of 132 U.S. pediatric occupational therapists run by Western Michigan University researchers from March to October 2023, just over half still used telehealth after the pandemic, but the median share of services delivered that way was 10% (Baker et al., Int J Telerehabil 2025). School-based respondents used it significantly less than those in outpatient clinics or early intervention. The respondents named parent coaching, seeing the child's own home and family illness as reasons to use it, and child engagement and regulatory barriers as the main problems. It was a convenience sample, not a picture of every pediatric OT.

Before COVID-19, video visits were already in use in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In a national survey of VHA occupational therapy practitioners in September and October 2019, 41.0% had used video telehealth with older veterans (Gately et al., JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol 2021). The response rate was 21.0% (Gately et al.), and the survey covers VHA staff only.

What did surveys find about OT telehealth during COVID-19?

Peer-reviewed surveys from 2020 describe a sudden switch to video. All of them are convenience samples.

• Of 230 occupational therapy practitioners who answered an online survey in 2020, 78% supported telehealth as a permanent option for OT services and 77% supported it as a substitute for in-person services (Dahl-Popolizio et al., Int J Telerehabil 2020).
• A survey of 193 occupational therapy practitioners in 13 countries, run from September to December 2020, found the main barriers were getting materials, mastering the technology and working with caregivers. Respondents filled the training gap themselves, including through social media and paid webinars (Abbott-Gaffney et al., Work 2022).
• In a pre-pandemic national survey of 126 occupational therapy practitioners in cancer care, education was the treatment most often rated as suited to telehealth sessions (41%) (Sleight et al., OTJR 2023).

Outside the U.S., a post-pandemic survey of 309 occupational therapists in Israel's health care system found 181 had delivered OT by telehealth; those with and without that experience held similar attitudes towards it (Loubani & Rand, Telemed J E Health 2024). The authors write that tele-OT has declined since COVID-19.

Who holds the camera on a home video visit?

Often a family caregiver. In a January-February 2022 national survey of VHA occupational therapy practitioners (response rate 16%) (Gately et al., JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol 2024), the technical task caregivers most often helped with was holding, angling, moving or operating the camera, reported by 54.4% (Gately et al.). 70.7% said caregivers were at least sometimes unavailable or unable to help, in which case the visit often moved to the phone (Gately et al.).

What do studies say about video home exercise programmes and parent coaching?

The evidence is thin and mixed. In an Australian randomized trial of 62 stroke patients with arm and hand deficits, a home exercise programme filmed on a tablet with automated reminders was not superior to a paper programme: the difference in adherence was 2% (95% CI -12 to 17), and arm function changed no more (Emmerson et al., Clin Rehabil 2017).

For coaching families over video, the U.S. studies are small. In 18 families of children with autism aged 2-6, parent efficacy and child participation rose after occupation-based coaching delivered by telehealth; the study had no control group, and one author co-founded a coaching company (Little et al., AJOT 2018). A pilot randomized trial with 16 rural parent-child pairs living with Type 1 diabetes found families coached over video for 12 weeks were more likely to reach their own participation goals, but there was no significant change in the children's blood glucose or in family quality of life (Jewell et al., AJOT 2025).

How do occupational therapists use social media?

Mainly for learning and for the profession's own promotion; there is little survey data on U.S. OTs marketing themselves with video. 57 of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists' 77 national member organisations answered a survey on social media and said they used it to talk to members and promote the profession (Hamilton et al., Digital Health 2016). In the UK, 49 occupational therapy practitioners described learning from Facebook Groups, from new treatment ideas to career advice (Teoh, Scand J Occup Ther 2022). U.S. researchers also recruited the school-based practitioners for a 2020 caseload survey through social media platforms (see below). WFOT also used social media to spread a September-November 2025 survey on artificial intelligence: of 884 respondents in 81 countries, 56.3% said they used AI at work, most often for documentation and administration (Cason et al., Work 2026).

Can occupational therapists get YouTube's health source label?

Not under the professions YouTube lists today. YouTube's help page for its health source information panels and health content shelves lists the eligible individual licences as doctor, nurse, psychologist, marriage and family therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and does not name occupational therapists (YouTube Help). Individual channels must also have more than 1,500 valid public watch hours in the last 12 months, or 1.5 million Shorts views in 90 days (YouTube Help). YouTube says accepted applicants may start appearing in these features in 2-3 months (YouTube Help).

What do teletherapy and software companies report?

These are the sellers' own figures from their own pages, not independently audited.

Presence's own careers page for OTs also gives a lower, older session count next to the 8M+ counter, so the number is a moving marketing figure. WebPT does not publish an OT-only breakdown or a response rate in its release.

How many occupational therapists hold a Florida licence?

Florida's public licence search returned 13,368 occupational therapist (OT) licences in practicing statuses on November 5, 2026 (our count), out of 25,842 OT licence records in all statuses, current and former. We read the Florida Department of Health's Division of Medical Quality Assurance (MQA) licence verification search, the state regulator's own register, one query per licence type, status and county, and kept only the result totals. The same search returned 6,766 occupational therapy assistant (OTA) licences in practicing statuses, or 50.6 assistants per 100 practicing OTs (our calculation).

MQA's own year-end count uses a June 30 date and its own status rules. Its annual report counted 14,560 OT licences in all statuses at the end of fiscal year 2025-26 (July 2025 to June 2026) Florida DOH MQA, of them 11,181 in-state active and 1,660 active with an out-of-state mailing address (MQA). That puts 12.9% of active OT licences at out-of-state addresses (our calculation); in fiscal year 2020-21 MQA counted 9,298 in-state active and 1,684 out-of-state active OT licences. It also counted 7,634 OTA licences, of them 6,173 in-state active, and 97 registrations for OT doctoral students on their capstone experience (MQA). These are licences, not people at work.

Out-of-state providers can also register to give telehealth to patients in Florida without a Florida licence (s. 456.47, F.S.). The public search returned 112 such registrations for OTs in practicing statuses, 0.8% of practicing OT licences and registrations combined (our count). The search also listed 50 doctoral capstone registrations in practicing statuses. MQA's fiscal year 2025-26 report names six licensure compacts Florida takes part in, and the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact is not one of them, so no OT compact privileges are in these counts.

How many OTs are licensed in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

2,127 practicing OT licences matched Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties in Florida's public licence search on November 5, 2026 (our count), 16.7% of the licences counted across all of the state's counties. MQA's county filter uses the licensee's address and can match one licence to more than one county: 40 of the licences on the first result page of each county search appeared under two or more counties (our check), so county totals slightly overcount.

Source: Florida DOH MQA licence verification search, practicing statuses, November 5, 2026 (our count). Miami-Dade had the most practicing OT licences of any county, 1,383 (our count). OTA counts by county, and counts for every licence type and status, are in our public file of aggregate counts (no names).

How fast are Florida OT and OTA licences growing?

Florida's OT licences in all statuses grew 18.9% from fiscal year 2020-21 to 2025-26, from 12,244 to 14,560, by MQA's year-end counts (our calculation). OTA licences did not grow: they fell 1.4% over the same years, from 7,745 to 7,634 (our calculation). MQA issued 6,138 initial OT licences across the six years (our sum), while initial OTA licences fell 45.5%, from 556 in fiscal year 2020-21 to 303 in 2025-26 (our calculation).

Source: Florida DOH MQA Annual Report and Long-Range Plan, Tables 1 and 4, each fiscal year MQA. In fiscal year 2020-21 MQA counted 6,247 in-state active OTA licences, against 6,173 in 2025-26 (MQA).

How many OTs are licensed in other states that publish open data?

Four states publish their licence registers as open data. On November 5, 2026, Colorado listed 5,406 OT licences in an active status, Washington's Department of Health 4,654 active OT licences, Connecticut 3,400 active OT licences and Delaware 864 active OT licences (our counts from each state's open data, grouped counts only).

Sources: data.wa.gov, data.ct.gov, data.delaware.gov and data.colorado.gov licence files, read through their SODA APIs on November 5, 2026 (our count). Each state defines "active" its own way; OTA counts for each state are in our public file. The counts are licences, not people at work, and one person can hold licences in several states.

How many OTs and OTAs hold NBCOT certification?

The National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT), which writes and runs the national exams most states use for licensure, counted 169,736 individuals holding its OTR (Occupational Therapist Registered) certification and 63,226 holding its COTA (Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant) certification in 2025 NBCOT. That is 37.2 COTAs per 100 OTRs (our calculation). In its 2025 year-in-review NBCOT said more than 231,000 OTR and COTA professionals maintained their certification that year (NBCOT). NBCOT charges exam and renewal fees, and sells study tools, to the people it counts. Certification is renewed every three years and is separate from a state licence, so certificant counts and licence counts are different populations.

In August 2022 NBCOT reported a total OTR population of 152,437 and a COTA population of 60,086 NBCOT. Against the 2025 figures, the OTR count rose 11.3% (our calculation).

Source: NBCOT, Certification Activities NBCOT. On the first attempt, 68% of first-time new OT graduates passed the OTR exam in 2025 (NBCOT).

How many OT and OTA programmes and graduates are there?

The Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE), the accrediting council of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), listed 158 accredited entry-level OT doctorate programmes and 160 accredited entry-level OT master's programmes in its U.S. directory on November 5, 2026 (our count from the directory). For assistants it listed 192 accredited OTA associate programmes and 9 OTA baccalaureate programmes (our count). Florida had 35 OT and OTA programmes in the directory, in all accreditation statuses (our count). More OT doctorate programmes were at the applicant, candidacy or preaccreditation stage than master's programmes (our count; the stage counts are in our public file).

The degree mix has shifted toward the doctorate. U.S. colleges reported 4,147 doctor's degrees in occupational therapy in academic year 2023-24, against 302 in 2013-14 by NCES's count (our count from NCES IPEDS completions data, first majors, 2023-24 provisional), and doctorates made up 42.0% of OT master's and doctor's degrees in 2023-24 (our calculation). Master's degrees fell to 5,719 in 2023-24 (our count). The assistant pipeline shrank: U.S. colleges reported 3,033 OTA associate degrees in 2023-24, and Florida colleges 255 (our counts). Florida colleges reported 388 OT master's and doctor's degrees in 2023-24, 3.9% of the U.S. total (our calculation).

Source: NCES, Digest of Education Statistics 2015, 2019 and 2023, table 318.30 NCES. Our own IPEDS counts of OT master's degrees match the Digest exactly in all three years. Doctor's degrees include the entry-level OTD and post-professional and research doctorates. Degrees are awards, not people, and second majors are left out.

How many occupational therapists work in the United States?

BLS counted 169.6 thousand occupational therapist jobs in 2025, wage and salary plus self-employed (SOC 29-1122) (BLS Employment Projections). The payroll-only count from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey is lower: 162,450 wage and salary jobs in May 2025 (BLS OEWS), because it leaves out OTs who own their practice. BLS puts 2.5 percent of the occupation in self-employment in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections).

Occupational therapy assistants (OTAs, SOC 31-2011), who carry out treatment plans under an OT's supervision, held 52.2 thousand jobs in 2025 including the self-employed (BLS Employment Projections) and 51,290 wage and salary jobs in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). Occupational therapy aides (SOC 31-2012), who prepare treatment areas and do clerical work rather than treat clients, are a much smaller group: 4,310 wage and salary jobs (BLS OEWS).

Where do occupational therapists work?

Most OTs work in health care, not schools. BLS's Occupational Outlook Handbook lists offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists, and audiologists as the employer of 28% of OT jobs in 2025 (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook), hospitals at 26 percent (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook) and educational services at 13 percent (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook). The Handbook's shares are of all OT jobs, self-employed included, and are rounded.

The OEWS payroll survey gives the same picture for May 2025, for wage and salary jobs only:

OTAs lean further toward therapy offices and nursing homes. The Handbook lists therapist and audiologist offices as the employer of 39% of OTA jobs in 2025 (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook). OEWS counts 20,180 OTA payroll jobs in those offices (BLS OEWS) against 2,840 in elementary and secondary schools (BLS OEWS). School-based therapists on school-year contracts are reported at their annual salary.

How much do occupational therapists earn?

The median annual wage for U.S. occupational therapists was $100,330 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS), and the mean was $101,280 (BLS OEWS). The lowest-paid tenth earned less than $71,690 and the highest-paid tenth more than $131,950 (BLS OEWS) (BLS OEWS). For comparison, the median for all U.S. wage and salary jobs was $50,980 (BLS OEWS). The OT median was 2.0 times that figure (our calculation). Pay differs by setting: the median OT in elementary and secondary schools earned 12.6% less than the median OT in therapist and audiologist offices, using the OEWS rows in the table above (our calculation). Schools employed 12.6% of all payroll OTs.

Pay is lowest in schools. Counting private schools and colleges with public ones, BLS's Handbook gives a median of $87,300 for OTs in educational services (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook), against the $106,300 OEWS median in home health care in the table above.

OTAs earned a median of $72,300 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). The Handbook's OTA medians run from $60,920 in educational services (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook) to $77,310 in home health care (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

How many occupational therapists work in Florida and South Florida?

Florida had 10,650 wage and salary OT jobs in May 2025 (BLS OEWS), or 6.6% of the U.S. total (our calculation), with a median annual wage of $99,360 (BLS OEWS). The occupation is about as concentrated in Florida as nationally: its location quotient was 1.03 (BLS OEWS); the location quotient compares the occupation's share of Florida jobs with its share of U.S. jobs. OTAs are more concentrated: Florida had 3,910 OTA jobs (BLS OEWS), a location quotient of 1.19 (BLS OEWS), at a median wage of $71,630 (BLS OEWS).

BLS publishes metro areas, not counties, and the API returned no OT data for the West Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale metropolitan divisions.

All figures are May 2025 OEWS estimates of wage and salary jobs; self-employed therapists are not counted.

How fast is occupational therapy employment projected to grow?

BLS projects OT employment to grow 14.8 percent from 2025 to 2035 (BLS Employment Projections), to 194.8 thousand jobs (BLS Employment Projections), against 3.5 percent for all occupations (BLS Employment Projections). The Handbook rounds this to 15 percent, "much faster than the average for all occupations" (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook). BLS projects about 10.0 thousand OT openings a year (BLS Employment Projections), most from replacing workers who retire or change occupations.

OTA employment is projected to grow faster, 21.5 percent over the same decade (BLS Employment Projections); the Handbook rounds the combined assistant and aide figure to 20 percent (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook). Both occupations appear in BLS's table of the fastest-growing occupations for 2025-35. These are model projections, not counts.

What education do occupational therapists and assistants need?

BLS lists a master's degree as the typical entry-level education for OTs (BLS Employment Projections). OTAs typically need an associate's degree from an accredited occupational therapy assistant program and usually need a state-issued license (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook). Licensing, certification and degree-level rules are covered in the rules section.

How many occupational therapy practices are there?

No federal count isolates occupational therapy practices. Private OT practices are classified in NAICS 621340, which the 2022 NAICS Manual defines as independent practitioners who provide physical therapy, plan and administer activities "designed to help patients or individuals with disabilities regain physical or mental functioning or adapt to their disabilities", or diagnose and treat speech, language or hearing problems, with occupational therapists' offices among its examples (NAICS Manual 2022). The manual's index also files "occupational therapists' offices (e.g., centers, clinics)" under 621340 (NAICS Manual 2022). The code is shared with physical therapy, speech therapy and audiology offices, so every figure below is shared context, not an OT-only count. OTs employed by hospitals, schools, nursing homes and home health agencies are counted in those industries.

BLS's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages counted 54,264 private establishments in NAICS 621340 in 2025 (BLS QCEW), up from 39,741 in 2019 (BLS QCEW). They averaged 518,334 jobs (BLS QCEW), at an average annual pay of $52,955 per job across all occupations in the industry, from therapists to front-desk staff (BLS QCEW). QCEW counts only establishments with employees covered by unemployment insurance, and each clinic location counts once.

The Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, a different source with different timing, counted 52,058 employer establishments in 2023 (Census CBP). Census also counted 116,639 nonemployer businesses in the industry in 2024 (Census Nonemployer Statistics). Nonemployers have no paid staff; most are sole proprietors, including solo therapists and contract therapists.

How much revenue do therapy practices in this industry bring in?

The 2022 Economic Census counted $42,795,518 thousand in receipts for employer establishments in NAICS 621340 (Census Economic Census 2022). The census publishes no product line for occupational therapy by itself. Two lines name it alongside other therapies: home physical, occupational and speech therapy services brought in $703,986 thousand (Census Economic Census 2022), and assisted daily living services with physical or occupational rehabilitation $8,553 thousand (Census Economic Census 2022). Patient care is also split by the patient's primary diagnosis: care for mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders (ICD-10 chapter F, which includes developmental disorders treated by OTs, speech therapists and others) brought in $9,222,618 thousand (Census Economic Census 2022). None of these is an OT-only figure.

How many of these practices are in Florida and Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

Florida had 4,614 private NAICS 621340 establishments in 2025, by BLS's QCEW count (BLS QCEW), with 34,245 jobs (BLS QCEW). County Business Patterns counted 4,399 Florida employer establishments in 2023 (Census CBP), and Census counted 17,520 Florida nonemployer businesses in the industry in 2024 (Census Nonemployer Statistics). All counts cover physical, occupational and speech therapy and audiology together.

QCEW and County Business Patterns differ in source, year and definitions, so their counts do not match. Nonemployer figures come from tax records of businesses with no paid employees.

How many occupational therapy evaluations does Medicare Part B pay for on professional claims?

Original Medicare Part B allowed 421,681 occupational therapy evaluations and re-evaluations on professional claims in 2024, counting CPT 97165 (low complexity), 97166 (moderate), 97167 (high) and 97168 (re-evaluation) in office and facility settings (our calculation from CMS's Physician & Other Practitioners by Geography and Service file). That is 39.0% more than the 303,305 allowed in 2019 (our calculation). Each service here is one evaluation.

Multiplying CMS's average Medicare payment per evaluation by the number of evaluations, Original Medicare paid about $31.1 million for these four codes on professional claims in 2024, against about $20.6 million in 2019 (our calculation). These are Medicare's own allowed and paid amounts, not any provider's prices. In 2024 the average allowed amount for a low-complexity evaluation (CPT 97165, office setting) was $100.81 and the average Medicare payment was $75.44 (CMS); the payment is lower because the beneficiary owes the deductible and 20% coinsurance. The 2019 payment for the same evaluation was $69.61 (CMS 2019 file), a nominal rise of 8.4% (our calculation, not adjusted for inflation). The file has no telehealth flag, so it cannot say how many evaluations were done by video.

Low-complexity evaluations were 48.8% of office-setting initial OT evaluations in 2024, down from 53.8% in 2019, and high-complexity evaluations were 7.0% (our calculation). CMS's geography file does not split a code by who billed it; the provider-level file below does.

How have Medicare OT evaluations on professional claims changed since 2019?

Low-complexity evaluations (CPT 97165, office setting) dipped in 2020 and then grew every year, from 145,022 in 2019 (CMS 2019 file) to 185,476 in 2024. Providers billing the code rose 43.4% from 7,590 (CMS 2019 file), and beneficiaries receiving it rose 26.9% from 134,549 (CMS 2019 file) (our calculation). Because the file leaves out institutional claims, the rise may partly reflect OT moving between billing settings, not only more therapy.

Moderate-complexity evaluations (CPT 97166) went from 101,587 in 2019 (CMS 2019 file) to 167,799, high-complexity (97167) from 22,713 (CMS 2019 file) and re-evaluations (97168) from 33,953 (CMS 2019 file).

Two treatment codes OTs use heavily are not OT-only, and the geography file counts every biller of them. In 2024, 38,506 providers billed self-care/home management training (CPT 97535, office setting, 15-minute units) for 3,943,313 units (CMS), at an average Medicare payment of $19.68 per unit (CMS); 99,035 providers billed therapeutic activities (CPT 97530) for 44,642,444.4 units (CMS). Against 1,953,273 units of 97535 (CMS 2019 file) and 20,044,110.7 units of 97530 (CMS 2019 file) in 2019, that is a 2.0-fold and a 2.2-fold rise (our calculation).

Who bills Medicare for OT evaluation codes?

Almost only occupational therapists. In CMS's 2024 Physician & Other Practitioners by Provider and Service file, 8,485 individual providers had published records for the four evaluation codes, up from 5,340 in 2019 (our count), and 97.9% of them, 8,309 providers, carried CMS's provider type "Occupational Therapist in Private Practice" (our count). They billed 97.1% of the evaluations in that file (our calculation). The next-largest group was orthopedic surgeons, with 57 providers (our count). The provider-level file covers 83% of the national evaluations in the geography file (our calculation); the rest come from providers with 10 or fewer beneficiaries for a code.

For the shared treatment codes, occupational therapists in private practice billed 60.4% of national self-care/home management training units (CPT 97535) and 13.9% of therapeutic activities units (CPT 97530) in 2024 (our calculation from the provider-level and geography files); the rest came from other provider types and from billers under the suppression threshold.

Counting every service, not just these codes, CMS's by-provider file for 2024 lists 11,309 providers of type Occupational Therapist in Private Practice nationwide (CMS 2024 by-provider file), against 6,621 in 2019 (CMS 2019 by-provider file); both leave out OTs with 10 or fewer Medicare patients. Enrollment is wider than billing: CMS's Public Provider Enrollment file dated 1 October 2026 holds 26,245 enrollment records with provider type 14-67, Occupational Therapist in Private Practice (CMS PPEF), against 26,490 in the January 2026 file (CMS PPEF January 2026). An OT enrolled in more than one state can appear more than once, enrollment does not mean the person billed Medicare, and OTs employed by hospitals, nursing facilities or home health agencies usually bill through the institution instead.

How much Medicare OT happens in Florida and South Florida?

Florida providers billed 32,918 Medicare OT evaluations and re-evaluations on professional claims in 2024 (our calculation from the rows CMS publishes), up 47.2% from 22,365 in 2019 (our calculation) and 7.8% of the national total (our calculation). Providers billing low-complexity evaluations in Florida rose 47.0% between 2019 and 2024 (our calculation). CMS publishes few Florida facility rows because most would come from 10 or fewer beneficiaries.

The average Medicare payment for a Florida low-complexity evaluation was $74.91 in 2024 (CMS). CMS's 2024 by-provider file lists 672 Florida providers of type Occupational Therapist in Private Practice (CMS 2024 by-provider file), against 318 in 2019 (CMS 2019 by-provider file). Florida's October 2026 enrollment file count is 1,551 OT enrollment records (CMS PPEF), against 1,552 in January 2026 (CMS PPEF January 2026).

In the provider-level file for the six codes, 639 Florida occupational therapists in private practice had published records in 2024, up from 293 in 2019 (our count). By ZIP code, 73 were in Palm Beach County, 49 in Broward and 8 in Martin (our count using the Census ZIP-to-county relationship file), so the three counties held 130 of them, against 79 in 2019 (our count). Providers in the three counties billed 5,836 OT evaluations in that file in 2024 (our calculation). OTs with 10 or fewer Medicare patients for a code are not in these counts.

What do the Medicare files leave out?

These files are much narrower than all Medicare occupational therapy. CMS builds them from 100% of final-action Part B non-institutional line items for the fee-for-service population (CMS methodology), which means professional claims from OTs in private practice and from physician and therapy offices. OT that hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, CORFs and rehabilitation agencies bill on institutional claims is not in them, and neither are Medicare Advantage enrollees, Medicaid, school-based OT or private insurance. CMS also drops any aggregated record built from 10 or fewer beneficiaries (CMS methodology), so small state, setting and provider rows are missing and sums understate the true totals. The files carry no telehealth flag, and the geography file does not say which profession billed a shared code such as 97530.

What is the Medicare therapy threshold for occupational therapy in 2026?

For 2026 the Medicare KX modifier threshold for outpatient occupational therapy is $2,480 per beneficiary, set by CMS in the CY 2026 physician fee schedule final rule (Federal Register). It is a separate threshold from the one for physical therapy and speech-language pathology combined, though the dollar amount is the same; CMS's Therapy Services page prints the OT amount as $2,480 too (CMS). Since 2018 the old OT therapy cap works as a threshold, not a limit: above it, OT claims must carry the KX modifier confirming the care is medically necessary, and claims without it are denied (42 CFR 410.59). For 2027 the OT threshold rises to $2,540 under CMS's final CY 2027 rule, filed for public inspection on November 4, 2026 (CMS final rule).

Above $3,000 of OT services in a year, claims can be picked for targeted medical review; that level is fixed through 2027 and indexed from 2028, again separately from PT and SLP (Federal Register). From 2012 through 2017 the OT review threshold was $3,700 (42 CFR 410.59), and the original 1999-2001 annual limit on outpatient OT was $1,500 (42 CFR 410.59).

Each year's OT amount equals the PT and SLP combined amount; the two are tracked and applied separately, so a beneficiary who gets both physical and occupational therapy has a threshold for each.

How much does Medicare pay when an occupational therapy assistant provides the care?

Since 2022 Medicare has paid 85 percent of the usual fee schedule amount for outpatient OT services furnished in whole or in part by an occupational therapy assistant (42 CFR 410.59). The cut is statutory: section 1834(v)(1) of the Social Security Act requires a 15 percent payment reduction for occupational and physical therapy services provided in whole or in part by an OTA or PTA (CMS, Federal Register). Claims identify these services with the CO modifier for OT (CQ for physical therapy), which CMS created for 2019 (CMS).

A service counts as furnished "in part" by an OTA only when the minutes the assistant furnishes separately from the occupational therapist exceed 10 percent of the service or unit, the de minimis standard (42 CFR 410.59). Minutes the OTA and OT furnish together count as the OT's.

From 2025, occupational therapists in private practice may supervise OTAs under general rather than direct supervision when billing Medicare, after CMS revised 42 CFR 410.59 in its CY 2025 fee schedule rule; states with stricter supervision rules still apply them (CMS, Federal Register).

When does Medicare Part B cover outpatient occupational therapy?

Medicare Part B pays for outpatient occupational therapy only when a qualified OT, or an appropriately supervised OTA, furnishes it to a beneficiary under a physician's care and under a written plan of treatment (42 CFR 410.59). An occupational therapist in private practice may bill Medicare only for services in the practice's own private practice office space or in the patient's home, which excludes hospitals, critical access hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (42 CFR 410.59).

Which billing codes describe an occupational therapy evaluation?

Since 2017, occupational therapy evaluations have been billed with three complexity-tiered CPT codes, 97165 (low), 97166 (moderate) and 97167 (high), plus 97168 for a re-evaluation; they replaced the single OT evaluation code 97003 and re-evaluation code 97004 as part of a new family of eight PT and OT codes (CMS, Federal Register). The CPT descriptors CMS published give a typical face-to-face time for each code:

The typical time is part of the CPT descriptor (copyright American Medical Association), not a billing minimum; complexity is set by the occupational profile, the number of performance deficits the assessment finds and the clinical decision-making involved.

Can occupational therapists bill Medicare for telehealth?

Through December 31, 2027, under current law. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 extended the wider list of Medicare telehealth practitioners, which includes occupational therapists, from January 30, 2026 to December 31, 2027 (CMS, Federal Register). CMS's final CY 2027 rule, filed for public inspection on November 4, 2026, writes occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists and audiologists into its telehealth regulation through 2027 (CMS final rule).

How often do public companies' annual reports mention occupational therapy?

Less often than in 2011. 42 Form 10-K annual reports filed with the SEC in 2025 used "occupational therapist", "occupational therapists" or "occupational therapy", against a peak of 69 in 2011 (our count). Over 2001-2025 the total was 1,296 filings, 546 of them in 2001-2010 and 454 in 2016-2025 (our count). They came from 257 different companies; three used an OT phrase in every one of the 25 years: home health company Amedisys, school-staffing firm RCM Technologies and clinic chain U.S. Physical Therapy (our count). Health-services companies filed 627 of the 1,296; drug and medical-device makers 152, insurers 114, healthcare REITs 99, schools 68 and staffing firms 61 (our count). We counted distinct 10-K filings per filing year with the SEC's EDGAR full-text search on 2026-11-05. The counts are filings, not companies or mentions, and a passing mention counts the same as a business description. Private companies, which include most OT practices, teletherapy sellers and school-staffing firms, file no 10-K. The yearly counts, the filer list and our hand-read sample are in the CSVs linked below.

Not every hit is about therapy work. Of the 42 filings from 2025 we read 12 from companies that neither deliver nor staff therapy: 2 described drug pipelines, 2 quoted the Stark Law list of designated health services, 2 listed covered benefits, 2 were executive biographies, 2 were schools that teach OT or OTA programmes, 1 was an employee wellness benefit and 1 a list of customers who buy scrubs (our count). Utility MGE Energy, for one, gives employees access to occupational therapists for sprain and strain prevention and ergonomic assessments (MGE Energy 10-K), and scrubs maker FIGS lists occupational therapists among its customers (FIGS 10-K).

What do school-staffing companies say about occupational therapists?

Three listed staffing firms named school or allied OTs in their latest annual reports, but none gave a headcount. Cross Country Healthcare places occupational therapists with schools alongside special education providers, behavioral aides and speech-language pathologists (fiscal 2025 10-K) (Cross Country 10-K). Its 10-K cites NCES projections that about 7.9 million students ages 3 to 21, about 15% of public school students, received IDEA special education services in 2025, and names occupational therapists among the professionals IDEA requires (Cross Country 10-K). AMN Healthcare lists occupational therapists among the allied professionals it places at hospitals, nursing facilities, rehabilitation clinics and schools (AMN 10-K). RCM Technologies places occupational and physical therapists with school districts to evaluate and treat students (RCM 10-K), and says its teletherapy lets students receive Occupational Therapy and other special education services through an online platform (RCM 10-K). Kelly Services bought Children's Therapy Center, a children's occupational, physical and speech therapy provider, on November 13, 2024 for a purchase price of $3.3 million before adjustments (Kelly 10-K). These are the companies' own descriptions of what they sell.

How big are the listed outpatient rehabilitation chains?

Select Medical ran 1,917 outpatient rehabilitation clinics in 39 states and D.C. at the end of 2025 (Select Medical 10-K), with 11,517,388 patient visits in 2025, up 3.3% (Select Medical 10-K). The clinics provide physical, occupational and speech rehabilitation, and the segment employed about 11,500 people (Select Medical 10-K); the 10-K does not split clinics, visits or staff by discipline. U.S. Physical Therapy owned or managed 780 clinics in 44 states (USPH 10-K). A typical clinic starts with a licensed physical therapist and an office manager and may add occupational therapists, therapy assistants and aides as visits grow (USPH 10-K). The majority of its clinicians bill Medicare as individual physical or occupational therapists in private practice (USPH 10-K), and about 40.1% of its 2025 visits came from patients with Medicare or Medicaid coverage (USPH 10-K). It bought a home-care speech and occupational therapy practice on April 30, 2025 (USPH 10-K). ATI Physical Therapy ran 866 clinics in 24 states at the end of 2024 (ATI 10-K); it lists hand therapy among its clinic services and offers tele-physical therapy alongside in-person care (ATI 10-K).

What Medicare rules for occupational therapy do the filings describe?

Rehab companies restate the CMS rules that shape their OT revenue. Select Medical says the Medicare therapy (KX modifier) threshold is applied separately to occupational therapy, at the same amount as for physical and speech therapy combined: $2,330 in 2024, $2,410 in 2025 and $2,480 for 2026 (Select Medical 10-K). Claims above $3,000 face targeted manual medical review through 2028, again with a separate threshold for OT (Select Medical 10-K). Since January 1, 2022, Medicare has paid for OT services provided by occupational therapy assistants at 85% of the otherwise applicable Part B amount (Select Medical 10-K), and the 2025 fee schedule let occupational therapy assistants in private practice work under general supervision (Ensign 10-K). Select expects the 2026 fee schedule to raise Medicare payments for the physical and occupational therapy it provides by approximately 2% (Select Medical 10-K). Ensign still describes one payment cap for PT and speech combined and a separate amount for OT (Ensign 10-K), and PACS Group lists occupational therapy as one of the five case-mix components of Medicare's nursing-home payment model (PACS 10-K).

On telehealth, Omega Healthcare Investors says CMS added occupational therapy to the approved Medicare Part B telehealth providers for nursing facilities in 2020 under COVID-19 waivers (Omega 10-K). Ensign says the waivers that let occupational therapists deliver telehealth lapsed, were reinstated from October 1, 2025 and were extended through December 31, 2027 (Ensign 10-K).

Where do home health, nursing and pediatric companies mention occupational therapy?

Mostly in describing their staff and the payment rules, rarely with OT-specific numbers. Enhabit's home health business, which provides nursing and physical, occupational and speech therapy, had an average daily census of 41,786 patients in 2025 (Enhabit 10-K); it notes that Medicare home health patients must be homebound and need skilled nursing, physical or speech therapy, or have a continuing need for occupational therapy (Enhabit 10-K). Amedisys had 347 Medicare-certified home health care centers at the end of 2024, with rehabilitation therapists who specialize in physical, speech and occupational therapy (Amedisys 10-K). Addus HomeCare says federal Medicaid rules leave home occupational, physical and speech therapy optional for states (Addus 10-K). Aveanna says Medicaid's EPSDT benefit requires states to cover medically necessary services for children under 21, including its pediatric occupational therapy (Aveanna 10-K). InnovAge's PACE teams bring together at least 11 disciplines, typically including an occupational therapist (InnovAge 10-K).

In inpatient care, Encompass Health ran, at the end of 2025, 173 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, staffed by nurses and physical, occupational and speech therapists (Encompass 10-K), and says one Florida A&M recruiting reception connected it with over 100 physical and occupational therapy students and professionals (Encompass 10-K). At the end of 2025, PACS Group operated 321 post-acute facilities serving over 31,700 patients daily (PACS 10-K). An older baseline: Genesis Healthcare provided therapy, including OT, to approximately 1,400 healthcare locations at the end of 2020 (Genesis 10-K), and its therapist efficiency fell to 60.5% in 2020 from 68.0% in 2019, the first full year of Medicare's PDPM nursing-home payment model and the first year of COVID-19 (Genesis 10-K).

What do device and software companies say about occupational therapists?

Myomo, which sells the MyoPro powered arm and hand brace mainly to stroke survivors, says it has a staff of occupational therapists who train and support the local therapists its users are referred to (Myomo 10-K). Its clinical staff run first evaluations by telehealth, followed by an in-person evaluation (Myomo 10-K). Myomo sells directly to patients: its advertising expenses were approximately $8,032,300 in 2025, up from $3,484,800 in 2024 (Myomo 10-K), and it had 1,528 patients in its reimbursement pipeline at the end of 2025 (Myomo 10-K). It estimates that 40,000-80,000 new chronic stroke patients a year could be suitable for its device, a seller's estimate with no stated method (Myomo 10-K). Practice-software seller EverCommerce lists physical, occupational and speech therapists among the health verticals it serves (EverCommerce 10-K).

Where do new occupational therapists work?

Children's services and nursing homes lead. In the 2022 practice analysis survey run by NBCOT, the national body that certifies OTRs and COTAs, 21.4% of entry-level occupational therapists named pediatric clinics and early intervention as their primary practice area, 20.6% the school system, 14.0% skilled nursing and 13.0% acute care (NBCOT OTR Practice Analysis 2022). Only 2.5% named home health and 3.1% mental health (NBCOT). The survey went to every OTR certified for 36 months or less as of February 2022 and kept 2,137 valid responses (NBCOT); it describes new graduates, not the whole profession, and NBCOT does not publish a response rate.

Occupational therapy assistants lean towards nursing homes. Among 930 entry-level COTAs in NBCOT's 2022 survey (NBCOT COTA Practice Analysis 2022), skilled nursing facilities were the top primary practice area at 27.3%, ahead of pediatric clinics and early intervention (20.3%) and the school system (17.3%) (NBCOT).

In NBCOT's 2022 survey, among new OTRs who reported their education, 82.5% held an entry-level master's degree and 15.9% an entry-level doctorate (NBCOT). 92.4% of OTR respondents were women (NBCOT).

What do school-based occupational therapists do?

Mostly fine motor and handwriting work in elementary schools. In a January-March 2024 survey of 500 school-based occupational therapy practitioners across the United States (Zeitlin et al., AJOT 2025), 74.2% of those in elementary schools gave direct intervention in therapy rooms, while middle and high school practitioners mainly consulted (Zeitlin et al.). Fine motor skills were the most frequently reported intervention area for 98.6% of elementary-school practitioners; in high school it was life skills, at 56.5% (Zeitlin et al.). Few addressed mental health or literacy. AJOT is published by AOTA.

An earlier survey of Three hundred seventy-one school-based practitioners, recruited through social media and word of mouth, found most wanted to move from a caseload count to a workload model but cited a lack of administrative support and time, and still delivered most services outside classrooms (Seruya & Garfinkel, AJOT 2020). Neither survey is a random sample.

What do occupational therapists earn, as AOTA reports it?

AOTA's own pay figures are mostly behind its membership wall. The association says its 2023 Compensation & Workforce Survey drew more than 11,000 responses, but publishes the results only to members (AOTA). Response counts have fallen: 15,596 in 2019 (AOTA) and 13,052 in 2015 (AOTA). AOTA does not publish a response rate for any of them.

The last salary figures AOTA put on its public site come from the 2015 survey, which covered the 2014 work year. The median full-time occupational therapist earned $70,000 and the median full-time occupational therapy assistant $48,000 (AOTA). AOTA said full-time OT salaries had risen 8.2% and OTA salaries 9.1% since its 2010 survey (AOTA). These are self-reported figures more than a decade old; government wage estimates for OTs and OTAs appear in the workforce section above.

In the same 2015 survey, 58.2% of occupational therapy students said they were strongly or somewhat considering opening a private practice, up from 47.1% in 2010 (AOTA). That measures intentions, not practices opened.

How common are the conditions occupational therapists treat?

Stroke, falls in older adults and developmental disabilities in children are three of the largest groups on an OT caseload, and CDC counts all three. More than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke every year, about 610,000 of them first strokes, and stroke reduces mobility in more than half of survivors aged 65 and older (CDC). Self-reported stroke prevalence among U.S. adults rose 7.8% from 2011-2013 to 2020-2022, a relative increase measured in CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (MMWR, Imoisili et al.).

The two fall death rates are not a trend: the MMWR and the NCHS data brief computed them separately, so the table gives each with its own year and source. The developmental disability figures are parents' reports of a diagnosis, and the autism figure comes from record reviews at 16 sites rather than a national sample. Sensory processing disorder is not among them; its prevalence claims are traced in the myths section.

What does the research say about occupational therapy?

For stroke, a 2017 Cochrane review of nine trials with 994 participants found that occupational therapy aimed at activities of daily living (ADL) raised ADL performance scores by a standardised mean difference of 0.17 and lowered the odds of death, deterioration or dependency (odds ratio 0.71) compared with no intervention or usual care (Cochrane, Legg et al.). The authors rate the evidence low quality and write that the trials do not give a reliable indication of the likely effect. Reviews in other areas report the same pattern: effects in a positive direction, with certainty that varies by question.

Sensory integration therapy draws the most argument. A 2025 review in AOTA's journal of trials that followed the Ayres Sensory Integration fidelity measure found nine randomised trials with 344 children: strong evidence that autistic children met their individual goals, and moderate evidence of no benefit for behaviors of concern such as irritability (AJOT, Acuña et al.). A wider AOTA review of studies from 2015 to 2024 included only 4 of 12 randomised trials (AJOT). The largest independent trial, the UK's SenITA, randomised 138 autistic children with sensory processing difficulties and found no significant effect on irritability or agitation at 6 or 12 months (adjusted mean difference 0.40); carer-rated goals rose across sessions, and the economic analysis found the therapy not cost-effective compared with usual care (NIHR Health Technology Assessment, Randell et al.).

Does occupational therapy by video work as well as in person?

Reviews written for the profession say it can, for some conditions. A 2022 review in AOTA's journal of 20 studies from 2009 to 2019 found strong evidence for telehealth OT in neurological and pain conditions and called it similarly effective to face-to-face care (AJOT, Feldhacker et al.). Its 2025 update of 43 studies from 2019 to 2022 found strong evidence only for lifestyle interventions for chronic conditions, and moderate or low evidence elsewhere (AJOT, Lucas Molitor et al.). Reviews from outside the profession are more cautious. A 2024 review of 4470 adults in randomised trials found telehealth allied health care similar to face-to-face care overall, but named occupational therapy among the disciplines with significant gaps in the evidence (Healthcare, Monash University authors). After stroke, a 2020 Cochrane review of 22 trials with 1937 people found low-quality evidence of no difference in daily-living outcomes between telerehabilitation and in-person therapy (SMD 0.03), and no difference in upper limb function when a computer program retrained the arm remotely (mean difference 1.23) (Cochrane, Laver et al.).

• Children and adolescents with disabilities: a 2023 review found 18 studies of tele-occupational therapy and concluded it could be performed in line with face-to-face therapy, with more research needed by disorder and tool (Med J Islam Repub Iran, Dehghani et al.).
• Developmental coordination disorder: in a 2025 trial of 20 children aged 3-7, adding telerehabilitation to sensory-based therapy gave larger gains in daily-living scores than in-clinic therapy alone (PLOS ONE).
• Type 1 diabetes, U.S.: in a trial of 209 young adults, telehealth OT improved diabetes-related quality of life and distress but not blood glucose (Diabetes Res Clin Pract, Pyatak et al.).
• Wrist fracture surgery, Turkey: in a trial of 54 patients, live video rehabilitation matched face-to-face care for range of motion and swelling but gave smaller gains in grip and pinch strength (Turk J Phys Med Rehabil).

Recorded video has been tested as a home-programme tool too. In a 2017 Australian trial of 62 stroke patients, home exercise programmes delivered by video with automated reminders did not improve adherence over paper handouts (mean difference 2%) or arm function (Clinical Rehabilitation, Emmerson et al.). For autistic children and adults learning daily living skills, a 2016 meta-analysis of single-case studies rated video modeling moderately effective (Res Dev Disabil, Hong et al.), and a 2024 study of 17 autistic students found video prompts and picture prompts both increased independence (AJOT, Benson et al.).

How reliable are occupational therapy and rehab videos on TikTok and YouTube?

The one study of OT's own hashtag found a large audience and loose labelling. In a 2023 study, the top 500 TikTok videos under #occupationaltherapy had 175,862,994 views; 210 were educational, pediatrics was the most common setting (131 videos), and 222 did not say the content was occupational therapy (JMIR Formative Research, Chasca et al.). Studies of YouTube videos on conditions OTs treat find quality that varies with who uploads and that rarely tracks popularity.

Each of these studies rated what a search returned on one date, with tools such as DISCERN and the Global Quality Score, so they describe a sample rather than a whole platform. None separates videos made by occupational therapists from those by other professionals.

What does Florida require for an occupational therapy licence?

Florida requires an occupational therapist applicant to finish an accredited OT programme, at least 6 months of supervised fieldwork and the licensing exam, under part III of chapter 468 of the 2026 Florida Statutes (Florida Statutes s. 468.209). An occupational therapy assistant needs at least 2 months of supervised fieldwork (s. 468.209). The exam is NBCOT's national certification exam: the Board of Occupational Therapy Practice licenses at NBCOT's passing score, and applicants approved on condition of passing have twelve months to pass and send in their scores (Fla. Admin. Code 64B11-2.006).

The Board has seven members appointed by the governor: four licensed OTs, one licensed OTA and two consumers (s. 468.205). Since 2026 the practice act also covers dry needling by occupational therapists, which requires 50 hours of face-to-face continuing education on the technique, along with a period of licensed practice and supervised patient sessions, first (s. 468.227).

How must Florida OTs supervise occupational therapy assistants?

Florida defines supervision of an OTA as the occupational therapist setting the initial direction of the plan of treatment and periodically inspecting how it is carried out; the supervising OT need not always be physically present on the premises, but must be available for consultation and direction except in emergencies (Florida Statutes s. 468.203). Medicare's own supervision rule for OTAs in private practice is in the Medicare section above.

How much are Florida's occupational therapy licence fees?

Florida's Board charges a $100.00 nonrefundable application fee for licensure by examination (Fla. Admin. Code 64B11-2.003), an initial licence fee of $75.00 (64B11-2.008) and a biennial renewal fee of $55.00 (64B11-2.008). The same fees apply to occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants. These are the state's licensing fees, not the price of any service.

How many continuing education hours do Florida OTs need?

Florida-licensed occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants must each complete 26 hours of approved continuing education every two years (Fla. Admin. Code 64B11-5.001). At least 14 of those hours must be in person or in interactive, real-time courses, which can include web-based or video-conference programmes (64B11-5.001). Credit for recorded video presentations is limited to 5 credits per subject (64B11-5.001). The statute caps what the Board may require at 30 contact hours every two years (Florida Statutes s. 468.219).

Is Florida in the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact?

No. The OT Compact Commission's map data, read in November 2026, lists Florida as Not Enacted; compact bills were filed in the 2025 session but not passed (OT Compact Commission). The compact lets OTs and OTAs licensed in one member state practise in others through a "compact privilege"; it is a joint initiative of AOTA, the professional association, and NBCOT, the certifying body. It had 28 member states by June 2023 (OT Compact Commission), and the first states began accepting privilege applications on January 12, 2026: Minnesota, Ohio and West Virginia (OT Compact Commission). Each privilege carries a $75 compact fee plus a state fee that varies by state (OT Compact Commission).

Until privileges brought in revenue, the Commission ran on grants from AOTA and NBCOT; it ended its 2025 fiscal year with $283,310 in retained earnings (OTCC FY25 annual report).

Can occupational therapists treat Florida patients by telehealth?

Yes. Florida's telehealth statute names practitioners licensed under part III of chapter 468, the occupational therapy practice act, as telehealth providers, along with those licensed through a multistate compact Florida belongs to (Florida Statutes s. 456.47). Because Florida has not joined the OT Compact, an occupational therapist licensed only in another state can treat a patient located in Florida by telehealth after registering with the applicable board, under subsection 4 of the same section (s. 456.47).

What does NBCOT certification require?

NBCOT, the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, issues the national OTR (occupational therapist) and COTA (occupational therapy assistant) credentials, which are separate from a state licence. Its exams are scored on a 300-600 scale and a score of at least 450 passes either one (NBCOT). Since January 2024 the OTR exam has 180 items with 4 hours to finish (NBCOT), and the COTA exam has 190 items in four hours (NBCOT). An online initial exam application costs $540 (NBCOT).

Certification lasts three years at a time (NBCOT), and to renew, certificants must earn at least 36 units of professional development or competency assessment in each cycle (NBCOT). NBCOT says 11 states accept current NBCOT certification as one way to meet state licence renewal requirements; Florida is not on its list (NBCOT).

What degrees can occupational therapists and assistants enter practice with?

Two for each role. ACOTE, the accrediting council of the American Occupational Therapy Association, accredits entry-level occupational therapist programmes at the master's and doctoral levels and occupational therapy assistant programmes at the associate and baccalaureate levels; its 2023 standards for all four took effect on July 31, 2025 (ACOTE). OT master's and doctoral students must complete at least 24 weeks of full-time Level II fieldwork (ACOTE), and OTA students at least 16 weeks (ACOTE). Doctoral students also complete a capstone of at least 14 weeks full time (ACOTE standards). At a fieldwork site with no existing OT service, students need at least 8 hours of direct supervision a week; the standards set no rules specific to remote supervision (ACOTE).

How does IDEA define occupational therapy in schools?

IDEA's Part B regulations list occupational therapy as a related service in 34 CFR 300.34(c)(6): services provided by a qualified occupational therapist that improve, develop or restore functions impaired or lost through illness, injury or deprivation, improve a child's ability to perform tasks for independent functioning, and prevent impairment or loss of function through early intervention (34 CFR 300.34).

Which federal rules cover patient testimonial and telehealth video?

The FTC's revised Endorsement Guides, 16 CFR Part 255, took effect in 2023 and apply to testimonials in ads, including patient or parent testimonial videos for an occupational therapy practice (Federal Register). If a practice cannot show that a testimonialist's results are typical, the ad should clearly disclose the generally expected performance (16 CFR 255.2). Under HIPAA, a covered practice must obtain an authorization from the patient before using protected health information for marketing (45 CFR 164.508).

For telehealth video, HHS's pandemic-era HIPAA enforcement discretion, which let providers use non-public video apps, ended with a transition period that closed in 2023; since then telehealth by covered providers must comply with the HIPAA Rules in full (HHS, Federal Register).

What do the popular occupational therapy numbers really say?

Four claims turn up again and again on occupational therapy school pages, clinic sites and in marketing advice to OT practices. Each one started from a real ranking, survey, forecast or client test. As they were repeated, they lost their scope or their date, or they were swapped for a different number. For each claim below we give the number as repeated, where it came from and what the source actually measured. We read every archived edition of the Bureau of Labor Statistics pages and the SPD Foundation's pages in the Internet Archive, pulled the journal abstracts through PubMed's E-utilities and ran exact-phrase searches on each figure and its older wordings.

"OT is a top 10 job and one of the fastest-growing"

The claim as repeated. Towson University's OT department says occupational therapy is "one of the fastest growing professions of the decade, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics" (Towson University). Sacred Heart University's OT programme says BLS lists occupational therapy as one of its fastest growing occupations (Sacred Heart University).

What BLS actually lists. BLS's "fastest growing occupations" page lists the 20 occupations with the highest projected percent growth. In every edition we read, from the 2010-20 projections to the 2025-35 projections, that list includes occupational therapy assistants but not occupational therapists. Assistants were projected to grow 43% over 2010-20 (BLS, 2012 capture), 33% over 2018-28 (BLS, 2020 capture) and 21% over 2025-35 (BLS, 2026 capture). For occupational therapists, BLS calls the growth "much faster than the average for all occupations", and the projected rate has fallen with each new decade. It was 33 percent for 2010-20 (BLS, 2012 capture), 29 percent for 2012-22 (BLS, 2014 capture), 27 percent for 2014-24 (BLS, 2016 capture), 18 percent for 2018-28 (BLS, 2020 capture), 12 percent for 2022-32 (BLS, 2023 capture) and 11 percent for 2023-33 (BLS, 2024 capture). It then rose to 14 percent for 2024-34 (BLS, 2025 capture) and 15 percent for 2025-35 (BLS, 2026 capture). Pages that still say "fastest-growing" usually carry a projection that is ten years old, or they mean the assistants.

Which "top 10". The top-10 rankings come from several different publishers, and each uses its own formula. Glassdoor, a jobs site, ranked occupational therapist No 4 on its 50 Best Jobs in America for 2018, scoring salary, employee satisfaction and openings (Rehab Management, 2018). CareerCast's 2018 Jobs Rated report also put it at No 4 among the ten best jobs, using the 2016-26 BLS projection of 24% as one input (Rehab Management, 2018). U.S. News & World Report named it one of its Best Jobs in 2012 (USC Chan, 2012). On U.S. News's overall list of 100 best jobs, occupational therapist ranked No. 23 in 2025 (Salus University, 2025) and No. 20 in 2026 (Respiratory Therapy, 2026). It is top 10 only on U.S. News's health-care sub-list, where it was No. 8 in 2025 (Salus University, 2025). U.S. News's robots.txt bars AI agents, so these ranks come from the schools and trade magazines that printed them, not from usnews.com.

What the sources support. Occupational therapist has been a top-10 job on some lists in some years, mostly on health-care-only lists, and on Glassdoor and CareerCast in 2018. It is not on BLS's fastest-growing list. The current BLS projection is 15% growth over 2025-35, which BLS calls much faster than average. Any ranking needs its publisher and year attached.

"1 in 6 children (5% to 16%) has sensory processing disorder"

The claim as repeated. The STAR Institute, formerly the SPD Foundation, says studies indicate that 5% to 16% of children exhibit symptoms of SPD (STAR Institute). Its About SPD page says 1 in every 6 children experiences differences in sensory processing that may be significant enough to affect everyday life (STAR Institute), and its research page says 1 in 6 children have sensory challenges sufficient to disrupt their academic, social or emotional development (STAR Institute). A pediatric therapy clinic tells parents that research shows up to 1 in 6 children experience sensory processing challenges (Skill Point Therapy). Gitnux, a statistics aggregator, says SPD affects between 5% and 16% of school-aged children "according to epidemiological studies" (Gitnux, 2026).

Where the 5% came from. Ahn, Miller, Milberger and McIntosh (2004) sent the Short Sensory Profile, a parent-report screening questionnaire, to parents of incoming kindergartners in one suburban U.S. school district in 1999-2000. Parents returned 703 surveys, 39% of the 1,796 children enrolled (Ahn et al., AJOT). Of those 703 children, 13.7% met the screening criteria based on their parents' perceptions (Ahn et al., AJOT). The authors' cautious estimate assumed that every non-respondent would have screened negative, which gave 5.3% of the enrolment (Ahn et al., AJOT). That is a screening result in one district, not a diagnosis, and the authors called for rigorous epidemiological studies.

Where the 16% came from. Ben-Sasson, Carter and Briggs-Gowan (2009) studied sensory over-responsivity, being bothered by touch or sound, in 925 children aged 7 to 11 who had been followed from infancy (Ben-Sasson et al., 2009). Sixteen percent of parents reported that at least four tactile or auditory sensations bothered their child (Ben-Sasson et al., 2009). That measures one kind of sensory difference by parent report. It does not measure "sensory processing disorder", and it has no test of whether daily life was disrupted.

How the foundation's figure changed. In 2008 the SPD Foundation's About SPD page said research by the foundation showed that 1 in every 20 children had SPD symptoms significant enough to affect everyday life (SPD Foundation, 2008 capture). Its "fundamental facts" page that year widened this to at least 1 in 20 people in the general population (SPD Foundation, 2008 capture). By May 2010 the same sentence read 1 in every 6 children, still credited to research by the foundation (SPD Foundation, 2010 capture). By February 2011 the page credited the 1 in every 6 to Ben-Sasson et al. and softened it to "sensory symptoms" (SPD Foundation, 2011 capture). The 5% and the 16% then became the two ends of a single "5% to 16%" range, though they come from different children, ages, measures and years.

Diagnosis status. The American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2012 that because there is no universally accepted framework for diagnosis, sensory processing disorder should not be diagnosed in general (AAP, Pediatrics, 2012). The same statement said the research on sensory integration therapy's effectiveness was limited and inconclusive (AAP, 2012). SPD is not in the DSM-5. The STAR Institute itself describes its goal as a world where SPD is included in diagnostic manuals such as the DSM and ICD (STAR Institute). Some repeaters keep the lower figure and the caveat: a St. Louis school for children with learning disabilities writes that 1 in 20 children are affected by symptoms of SPD and that SPD is not yet recognised in the DSM (Churchill Center & School).

What the sources support. One district's parent screening put 5.3% to 13.7% of kindergartners over a screening threshold in 1999-2000. A separate cohort study found 16% of parents saying four or more sounds or textures bothered their 7- to 11-year-old. Neither study is a count of diagnosed SPD, and the AAP advises against the diagnosis. "Up to 16% of children screen positive for sensory differences on parent questionnaires" is supportable. "1 in 6 children has SPD" is not.

"OT demand will outpace supply, with shortages in all 50 states"

Where it came from. Lin, Zhang and Dixon of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine published a forecast in PM&R in 2015. Based on current trends, they projected that demand for OT services would outpace supply and that shortages would increase for all 50 states through 2030 (Lin et al., PM&R, 2015). They projected that the number of states graded D or below would rise from 3 in 2010 to 37 in 2030 (Lin et al., 2015).

The federal projection disagrees. HRSA's National Center for Health Workforce Analysis projected that the supply of occupational therapists would grow about 45 percent between 2016 and 2030, to 150,810 full-time equivalents (HRSA). Demand was projected to grow 22 percent (HRSA). HRSA concluded that the U.S. would have a sufficient supply of OTs in 2030 under both of its scenarios (HRSA). The University of Arizona's Center for Rural Health set the two side by side: one model forecasts state shortages, while national models expect supply to meet demand by 2030 but miss local variation (Arizona Center for Rural Health, 2021).

How repeaters word it. SPRY, which sells practice software to PT and OT clinics, copies the 2015 abstract's sentence about all 50 states under the heading "a national emergency", credits it only to "research" and leaves out HRSA's national projection (SPRY). Apploi, which sells hiring software, cites "one study" for California, Florida and Texas having the most unfilled OT jobs by 2030 (Apploi). Neither gives the study's year.

What to use instead. Shortages are local, so state figures are the better guide. Utah's Office of Professional Licensure Review reported in 2026 that, in HRSA's newer state-level modelling, Utah's OT supply met 65% of demand, the third-lowest share in the nation, with 55% projected for 2037 (Utah Department of Commerce, 2026). For the nation as a whole, the HRSA projection to 2030 that we read expects supply to grow faster than demand. A 2015 projection to 2030 is a forecast, and it should be quoted with its date and authors.

"Video lifts conversions 80%"

The claim as repeated. Stratedia, a marketing agency that sells to occupational therapy practices, says video marketing "improves conversions by up to 80% on landing pages", with no source (Stratedia).

Where it came from. The trail starts with EyeView, which made and tested videos for its clients. A blog post of December 4, 2008 said visitors to eToro's site who viewed EyeView's video were 20% more likely to download the product, comparing viewers with non-viewers who chose for themselves whether to watch (EyeView, 2009 capture). The first 80% we found is in a post of February 10, 2009: viewers of EyeView's videos for UMOO were 80% more likely to become depositing users, the same kind of comparison (EyeView, 2010 capture). In November 2009 an EyeView post quoted a TutorVista manager saying the first test on one landing page boosted conversion by over 80 percent (EyeView, 2009 capture). EyeView's TutorVista case study gave 86 percent for a page with an autoplaying video for first-time visitors (EyeView, 2010 capture).

How it changed. EyeView's 2010 white paper said that "in some cases" the boost was over 80% (EyeView white paper). It reported the eToro split test, earlier told as 20%, as almost 32 percent (EyeView white paper). By August 2010 Unbounce, a landing-page software seller, wrote that "a study by eyeviewdigital.com shows that using video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80%" (Unbounce, 2010 capture). That dropped "in some cases" and the single-client scope.

What to use instead. Unbounce later looked at about 35,000 of its customers' landing pages in each of three periods from late 2020 to early 2021 (Unbounce). It found in August 2021 that video had a minimal or negative effect on conversion, whatever the page's goal (Unbounce). Neither study looked at occupational therapy practices. A practice that wants a number for its own site needs its own test: the same page with and without the video, shown to visitors at random.

Every popular claim our research pages trace, 763 in all, is on one page: popular video statistics, fact-checked.

How we built this page

We started from the questions people search for about occupational therapy video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 653 figures from 84 publishers.

On November 5, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS occupation wage estimates (through the BLS data API), Employment Projections and the Occupational Outlook Handbook (bls.gov pages through Internet Archive copies, because bls.gov refuses automated requests), the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics and the 2022 Economic Census (through the Census data API) and the 2022 NAICS Manual; CMS’s Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners and provider enrolment files (through CMS’s data API), its methodology notes and Therapy Services page; the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations through eCFR; Florida’s occupational therapy and telehealth statutes, the Board’s rules (through Cornell’s Legal Information Institute) and the Department of Health’s annual reports; the OT Compact Commission’s pages; NBCOT’s certification and exam pages; ACOTE’s standards and directory; NCES tables; CDC and NCHS pages (Internet Archive copies, because cdc.gov refuses automated requests); peer-reviewed studies and Cochrane reviews (PubMed abstracts re-read through the National Library of Medicine’s E-utilities, because pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov refuses automated requests); 10-K filings on EDGAR; YouTube’s help pages; sellers’ own pages; and the pages behind each popular claim. Our licence counts come from Florida’s public licence search and the Washington, Connecticut, Delaware and Colorado open licence files, our Medicare counts from CMS’s public files, our 10-K phrase counts from EDGAR full-text search, our degree counts from IPEDS, and our YouTube figures from the YouTube Data API. We left out the Cochrane Library’s own pages and U.S. News rankings pages (their robots rules disallow our agent; we cite PubMed abstracts and the schools and magazines that printed the ranks), AOTA’s 2023 salary figures (members only) and its newer pages (they refuse automated requests; we cite Internet Archive copies of older ones), the third YouTube search we planned (‘sensory activities’), which YouTube’s daily search quota stopped, and Medicare OT billed on hospital, nursing facility, home health and rehabilitation agency claims, which CMS does not publish in these files.

We only cite the producer: government agencies, regulators, company filings and official posts, and the survey owner's own report. We do not cite statistics roundups, Statista-style aggregators, or salary sites without a public method. We did not bypass paywalls or sign-up forms; where a full report was gated, we used only the figures its publisher states publicly.

Figures marked "our calculation" are arithmetic on the cited numbers, and anyone can reproduce them:

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Limitations

• Our YouTube read follows YouTube’s ranking. The 255 videos are what YouTube’s search returned for ‘occupational therapy’ and ‘occupational therapist’ (the top 200 results of each, sorted by views, with no country filter) on November 5, 2026. It is not a census of OT video, view counts are lifetime snapshots that include views from ads, and we sorted 176 channels by hand from their public text. One adaptive-equipment channel holds 69.9% of the views OT channels drew, so we give OTs’ share with and without it.
• Medicare counts cover part of Medicare OT. CMS’s files count Original Medicare Part B professional claims only. Therapy billed by hospital outpatient departments, nursing facilities, home health agencies and rehabilitation agencies, and all Medicare Advantage claims, are missing; the files carry no telehealth flag and leave out any cell with 10 or fewer beneficiaries.
• Job and industry counts miss part of the trade. BLS’s payroll survey leaves out the self-employed and OEWS is not built for year-to-year comparison. Private practices file under NAICS 621340, a code they share with physical therapists, speech-language pathologists and audiologists.
• Licence counts count paperwork. Florida’s licence search can match a licence to more than one county, and each state counts differently, so state totals are not directly comparable. NBCOT counts certificants, a different list from state licences.
• Surveys and studies have limits. AOTA’s and NBCOT’s surveys reach their own members and candidates, and some peer-reviewed surveys had response rates near 21%. Evidence reviews measured particular conditions against particular controls and rate their own certainty; this page reports what each found and recommends no therapy or treatment.
• Company figures are self-reported. Teletherapy companies and software sellers publish session and survey counts that no one audits.

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