Medical Entrepreneur

Stop Shipping Patients to the Hospital: Kyle Chaska on Bringing FEES Straight to Facilities

Episode Summary

Kyle Chaska turned a specialized clinical skill into a business. He brings hospital-grade FEES swallow studies directly to facilities across Iowa and Illinois - no transport, no waiting list. Here's how he found the gap and built the practice around it.

Episode Notes

Most speech-language pathologists take the job that's posted. Kyle Chaska built the one that wasn't.

Kyle is the owner of Dynamic Swallow Assessments, a mobile practice that brings FEES - fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing - directly into facilities across Iowa and Illinois. Instead of a resident being transported out for an instrumental swallow study, the study comes to the bedside, and the on-site therapy team gets a report and a plan the same day.

In this conversation with Dr. Adam Sewell, Kyle breaks down how he spotted an underserved service, built a referral base from scratch, and grew a practice around doing one thing exceptionally well.

What we get into:

• Spotting the gap: why instrumental swallow studies were the bottleneck nobody was fixing
• Going mobile - what a portable service model actually costs to start, and what it doesn't
• Building a referral base as an unknown clinician with no institution behind you
• Working with on-site therapists instead of around them, and why that's the whole business
• Covering two states: territory, scheduling, and the limits of a one-clinician model
• Where a specialized clinical skill becomes a defensible business
• What Kyle would tell an SLP who's thinking about going out on their own

Connect with Kyle:

• Web: dynamicswallowassessments.com
• Email: dynamicswallowassessments@gmail.com
• Phone: 515-290-1228