Chris Reading

Chairman and CEO, U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (NYSE: USPH)

Chris Reading is chairman and CEO of U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (NYSE: USPH), one of the largest publicly traded operators of outpatient physical therapy clinics in the United States. He joined USPH as chief operating officer in 2003, became president and CEO in 2004, and was named chairman in 2024.

Under his leadership, the company has scaled to more than 800 clinics across 40-plus states through a partnership model that keeps local operators in control of the businesses they built.

Before USPH, Reading spent more than a decade at HealthSouth in operations and senior leadership roles spanning rehab, ambulatory surgery, imaging, and rehab hospitals. He graduated magna cum laude from the Medical College of Virginia in 1985 and is a co-leader of APTQI, the industry coalition he helped form to advocate for outpatient rehab providers in Washington.

June 29, 2026

Building a Forever Company in Physical Therapy

Forty-one years in, the chairman of one of America’s largest publicly traded rehab operators still runs his playbook on a single principle: people. Chris Reading leads U.S. Physical Therapy from Houston, oversees more than 800 clinics across 40-plus states, and started his clinical life treating ACLs and complicated shoulders in Virginia. What separates USPH from the rest of the consolidation conversation is structure. Where private equity buys with the intent to sell in three to five years, Rea...

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