PracticeCare

Before AI came along and stole the conversation about efficiency, there was automation and outsourcing. Both are alive and well, and they’re getting better and better. My guest today helps her private practice clients bring automation and outsourcing into their practices and she’ll share some of her best tips with us.   Katie Nunn, MBA, CMPE, provides training and coaching for healthcare leaders a...

When the owner of a practice is also a practitioner in the practice, it’s all too easy to forget that leadership of the practice is the most important role, especially if you want the practice to grow. Growth requires leadership, and my guest today coaches her clients on how to become the leader their practice needs.   In this episode Carl White and Lisa Levesque discuss: The difference in roles b...

Patient forms are a painful part of practice. Most practices report having to chase down patients for bits of missing information, and those forms have to be HIPAA compliant as well. My guest today runs a company that helps make HIPAA compliant forms that are also friendly, and she’ll share her tips on how to make them compliant and friendly.   Along with her husband, Jeff, Carolyn Baruch has owne...

Two people will eventually disagree about something. Not much to see there. However, when it elevates to “employee conflict” you have something on your hands that you need to deal with. The kicker? Employee conflict might be all around you. What are the tells? What can you do about it? My guest today helps practice find it and deal with it and will share her insights with us.   Carol Bowser, J.D i...

Email in your marketing plan. Have you rolled your eyes and groaned yet? When done well, email has its place. What does well look like? My guest today helps practices use email effectively and she’ll share some tips with us.   Prerna Malik is co-founder of Content Bistro, the creator of the strategy-first copywriting program — Ready-to-Sell™, and is a Copyhackers-certified conversion copywriter. S...

Any private practice has a lot of stuff to get done. You’ve always needed people. Automation is a more recent option, one met with both excitement and skepticism. Every so often any practice owner should look at their practice and ask – is this optimized? My guest today helps her clients look at their people and automation and has some ideas for us.   Joelene Gioulis believes in a world where ever...

Telemedicine is developing pretty rapidly. My guest today specializes in helping functional medicine practices who want to build out a telemedicine practice in part or in whole. He was a guest about a year ago and he’s coming back to tell us what’s new in telemedicine now.   Scott Rattigan is an attorney, a nationally recognized speaker, podcast host, and bestselling author of The Practice of Tele...

Hoping and planning are different. You can hope for profits but you’ll be lucky if they come. It’s much better to plan for profits – both in earning them and spending them. My guest today works with private practice owners as a financial advisor to figure out both and he shares his thinking with us.   Eric Miller has served over 20 years in the financial industry and co-owns a national financial p...

Many practice owners seem to resist wanting to create new ways to talk about their practice, i.e.: content. Why is that? My guest today creates new content for businesses for a living, and he’s going to give us a case for new content in your marketing.   David is Founder of David Telisman Communications, LLC, a content writing and marketing company that works with businesses across multiple indust...

Patients not listening to your instructions is probably one of the more annoying parts of the job of a healthcare provider, so anything that can be done to increase compliance to treatment is a benefit for patients and your practice. My guest today owns and runs a practice where compliance is especially needed, and he shares his ideas with us.   As the owner of the Mancuso clinic in New Brunswick...

While many people have heard of Augusta National Golf Club, have you heard of the Augusta Rule? It’s a rule in tax law that seems to apply to more businesses than it might seem but you need have the details in place. My guests today help their clients with their tax and financial planning, including claiming the Augusta Rule when it’s appropriate.    Stephan Goldsmith is president of iAccounting S...

Referrals are the lifeblood of any successful private practice, and the longer you’ve been in practice the greater volume of referrals you should be getting. That doesn’t happen on its own. My guest today has built a referral base that feeds her practice and she shares her ideas on how she did it.   Dr. Ashley Maltz is an integrative medicine physician at West Holistic Medicine in Austin, TX. Afte...

Everyone wants their growth to be orderly, but that doesn’t happen on its own. If you leave it on its own, it will be chaotic growth. My guest today works with dental practices to help them grow in an orderly way and shares his insights on how to do it.   Frank Curtin is a seasoned management consultant with a distinguished tenure at IBM. He’s been imparting his knowledge for 25 years. With a prim...

The vast majority of private practices have enough competition that getting new patients isn’t guaranteed. You have to convince them to choose you. That takes marketing and sales. My guest today coaches private practices owners on how to do both and he’ll try hard to convince you that you need it as well.   Daniel Tribby is a healthcare provider, effective business growth strategist, award winning...

DSOs are not private practices, but does every DSO behave that way? Are there any that are doctor friendly? Clinically agnostic? My guest today says they are out there and he’ll help us understand more about them.   In 2007, Kyle created Professional Transition Strategies to facilitate the sale of over 500 dental practices exclusively as a seller’s representative. His M&A work has resulted in over...

Early career doctors and dentists know one thing about their career – it’s early! Your career will likely evolve, but what comes next? My guest today helps early career dentists work through this very question, and he has some advice for you.   Kirk Teachout is a business coach, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author. With the launch of his latest venture, "The Seven Figure Dentist" program t...

If you’re thinking of selling your practice to a DSO or an MSO, please be eyes wide open. Remember, they buy practices all day long, but you only sell a practice once. The buyer knows more than you do and they care about themselves more. Can it be a good sale for you? Yes it can. My guest today helps dental practices find good buyers, and his advice will help any seller.   Sean Hudson is a partner...

If you’re thinking of starting a private pay practice, or adding private pay services to your practice, don’t assume patients will just pay it. You have to convince them. How? My guests today run a private pay physical therapy practice and attract patients who could use their insurance with other physical therapists, but don’t. They tell us how they do it.   Jeff Bitter, DPT, opened CustomFit Conc...

Laws and regulations governing transparency for private practice owners are only growing. Whether you like it or not, you’re responsible to stay up to date and navigate them. My guest today runs a law firm devoted to helping small businesses, and private practices, do just that.   Michelle Bomberger believes that every business deserves to have the same strategic law advantages as mega-corporation...

While remote patient monitoring has been around for a while, its adoption hasn’t quite made it to the private practice world in a mass way. What would it take to change that? My guest today lives in this world and will tell us what he thinks about it.   Drew Mayer is the Founder and CEO of Snow Cloud Ventures. Drew is a health tech entrepreneur with 25 years of diverse expertise spanning healthcar...

Success in business MUST include the possibility that you’ll have to start over. It’s easy to say, but doing it takes real energy and courage. My guest today has started over a couple of times. If you’re staring at the possibility yourself, I encourage you to hear what he has to say.   Dr. Michael Reed aka The Cosmetic Gyn, is a leading board-certified cosmetic gynecologist with over 20 years of e...

Does your staff show up only for the paycheck? If so, there’s more you can give them. Why bother to do that? Greater job satisfaction for them and better profitability for you. My guests today have some ideas on how you can get started.   Matthew Norton is an expert in human behavior and cognitive science and is the founder of People Plus Purpose, a company that coaches business owners to fulfill...

As the owner of a private practice, do you want every day you work to be as long and as hard as the day you opened your doors? My guest today says it doesn’t have to be that way and he helps private practice owners work less while earning more.   As a successful serial entrepreneur, Jeff teaches providers how to unchain themselves from the daily grind by creating a practice that runs without them....

You can’t throw a football today without hitting AI somewhere. What are some areas where you can bring AI into your private practice? My guest today is working on it and she’ll share her ideas.   Dr. Rachel Draelos is a physician scientist and the CEO/Founder of Cydoc, a health AI company. The Cydoc Smart Patient Intake Form interviews patients using medical reasoning, then generates a focused HPI...

Which types of insurance make sense by your stage of career? In my opinion, insurance companies, from auto to life to long term care, do a terrible job of explaining this. My guest today does a good job of it. He’ll see if he can help make some sense of it for you.   Drew Powers is the Founder of Powers Financial Group, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor. He specializes in advanced insurance and...