PracticeCare

Growing your practice is exciting and nerve wracking, and it takes money. How do you figure out the financial needs of growing your practice? My guest today helps start ups get off the ground and on track to become a successful practice, and she’ll share some insights with us.   Diane Tarshis is Founder and Principal of Startup Distillery — a global consultancy where she provides 1:1 startup consu...

When your practice is growing, you’ll need to add more staff or start hiring staff. While great staff can make your dream work, all staff members are an expense. Do you truly understand the financial view of hiring staff? Ken Weil does, and he advises his clients on staff expense, and a lot of other business financial issues, so that his clients can grow profitably.   Ken Weil is President of Cons...

What are good uses of video when promoting your private practice? In those situations, what makes a good vs. bad video? If it’s so easy to do video today why don’t more people do them? Today’s guest does video in healthcare for a living and will bring some sanity to this discussion.   Tony Gnau is the Founder and Chief Storytelling Officer at T60 Health, the healthcare video specialists. He’s a th...

If you love repeating yourself, skip this episode. However, if you want to be understood better the first time, keep listening. Amanda HarNess with Business Excelerated coaches clients on clear communications, among other skills, and has some ideas for us.   Amanda HarNess is the Founder and CEO of Business Excelerated. As a business consultant and coach, she focuses on working with leaders and ow...

Henry Ford said, “whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Jamey Schrier with Practice Freedom U rephrases that to “mindset is money”, and he shares what that means on this episode of PracticeCare.   Dr. Jamey Schrier, PT is a best-selling author, speaker and CEO of Practice Freedom U, a business training and coaching company designed for physical therapists. Jamey...

For every 10 prospective new patients who call your office, how many of them become actual new patients? Even if you don’t expect to get all 10 of them, are you really getting as many as you should? Often, one of the culprits is poor follow up. My guest’s business is devoted to making that follow up more productive, and he has some insights to help you in this episode.   Matty Mclain is the CEO an...

Those who use AI to make their practices work better will beat out those who do not use AI. That’s a quote I’m hearing more and more. But use AI in Revenue Cycle Management? Yup, according to my guest today, and he’ll help us figure out how to get started.   Jeff Hillam is CEO of Red House Medical Billing, a full service revenue cycle management company with offices nationwide. Jeff's work in heal...

Time is money. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good. These and other cliches, while true, all point to the 80/20 rule. My guest today coaches his clients on bringing 80/20 into their practices and shares some ideas in this episode.   Bill Flynn is Principal at Catalyst Growth Advisors where he coaches leaders to get to the next level, and he coaches business owners on making growth more pred...

Maybe one of the more overlooked insurance options out there is called Key Person Life Insurance. It’s a tool like any other, but between its name and where it fits, it’s not surprising that many practice owners don’t know about it, or misunderstand it. My guest today is going to clear all of that up.   Brian Le is an insurance agent with New York Life, where he helps business owners sort through...

As a practice owner you need to know the numbers that tell you if your practice is healthy or not. You don’t need to know them like your accountant does, but there are some must have numbers you need to know. My guest today consults with practice owners to help them know their numbers and she shares her insights in this episode.   Alison Hulshof founded an ABA company and a Special Ed day school i...

Are you sure you want to scale your practice? Everyone sees the empire at the end, but the journey is tough, and the empire isn’t guaranteed to be fun. Scott Ritzheimer with Scale Architects helps practices scale and has qualified insights about the realities of scaling.   Scott Ritzheimer is the founder and CEO of Scale Architects. Scott helped start nearly 20,000 new businesses and nonprofits an...

Staff happiness is important, but staff happiness isn’t only about recognition, like time off, birthday celebrations, or other things you do every once in a while. Want your staff to be happy every day? There is an under-the-radar way to do it, and my guest today will explain it.   Shelly Coheley is the founder of SC Practical Solutions. Shelly’s experience in healthcare spans over 30 years and in...

When outsourcing a service, you should think about your choice of vendor with the same rigor as hiring a new employee. If that sounds reasonable, then why do so many practice owners rush the decision? Thomas Maher with Practice First has some ideas, and more importantly, good advice on how to choose vendors well, and he shared those ideas on PracticeCare   Thomas Maher has been a CPA in New York S...

As a practitioner, planning is part of your daily life – treatment plans, scheduling plans, financial planning, and on and on. However, many practice owners don’t do business planning. Your practice is a business and planning will make it stronger. Dr. Lance Knaub with Denali Consulting works with practice owners and many other types of business owners on this very need.   Dr. Lance Knaub is the b...

If you’re starting up a medical or dental practice, you have a ton of decisions to make. And while many of them could be changed down the road, why not make solid choices at the beginning? My guest today helps many medical and dental providers start their own practice and will share some tips with us.   Joe Lessard is a partner at Professional Business Management, a healthcare practice management...

The #1 thing your patients want is predictability. If they don’t know what’s coming, they get a little nervous. Nervousness is the enemy of a great patient experience. Jessica Martin with Martin Management Consulting helps clients deliver a great patient experience and helps you get started in this episode.   Jessica Martin is the owner of Martin Management Consulting and co-owner of Martin Dental...

Local Service Ads on Google are not so new anymore, but now they’re slowly rolling out to healthcare providers. Are they a good idea for you? How do they compare to traditional ads on Google? Bill Fukui with Medshark Digital shares his opinions. Bill Fukui has over 25 years specializing in medical advertising and marketing. He is published in numerous trade journals, a contributing author of The B...

Dr. Stephen Franson is the founder of The Remarkable Practice, an innovative coaching and consulting company that helps DC’s create a remarkable practice as part of a remarkable life. He is also Co-Founder of Chiro Match Makers, a specialized placement service that matches the right chiropractor with the right opportunity. A sought-after international speaker, author and teacher of Chiropractic Bu...

Growing Your Practice without adding more people. Employees are great, but do you always have to hire in order to grow? Lauren Schwabish and I debate growth and resourcing in this episode.   Lauren Schwabish M.S., CCC-SLP is the owner of Neuro Speech Services, a private practice based in Northern Virginia, specializing in person-centered assessment and treatment of cognitive-communicative disorder...

Size and independence. This is usually a good combo to look for as you work to stay private. Dr. Brady Frank of Freedom Dental Partners has a very novel way of helping practices scale while staying private, and he shares his approach with me in this episode.   Dr Brady Frank is a third generation dentist turned entrepreneur/inventor/author and thought-leader with a passion for teaching others the...

Do you ever wonder where all the cash is if you’re profitable? Why aren’t profits and cash flow the same? My guest today will explain.   Austin Moffat is with DSO CFO, which came from Founders who were working with dentists that were missing out on key financial aspects of their business. When budgets were impossible because of mis-categorized expenses or tax planning was off because we were waiti...

Many practices are family affairs. Passing on a practice sounds great, but it takes work. If you’re the parent looking to pass on you practice, or the child looking to get it, my guest today has advice to make sure it works out.   Doug Gray, PhD, PCC has always focused on outcome-based leader development. Since 1997, as CEO of Action Learning Associates, his consultancy guarantees results using th...

So, imagine you have a partner, or partners, with you as owners of your practice…and you all hate each other, but you need to work together anyway. Sound familiar to some of you? It does to my guest today, who coaches practice owners in situations just like this.   As the founder of Dynamic Team Solutions, Candice Gottlieb-Clark and her team of experts help organizational teams and leaders across...

When it comes to success, there’s hope and strategy. They’re different. Success in private practice starts with creating it, and Dr. Laurel Mines practices this with her clients and her own business.   Whenever athletes are determined to achieve their next level of peak performance (or find themselves sidelined by injuries), they know they're in the right hands with Dr. Laurel Mines, PT, DPT OCS....

If you accept insurance, then your revenue cycle is a big deal. It can also be a big pain and really confusing. Cathryn Nebel has three KPIs that you can track to keep your finger on the pulse of your revenue cycle in just a few minutes a day.   Cathryn Nebel is CEO of Freedom Revenue Solutions. We enable Physicians peace of mind and ability to focus on patient care while our medical billing servi...