PracticeCare

Barbara Khozam is known around the world for her impactful, high-energy delivery, outrageous wit, and ability to connect with her audience. Barbara has spoken more than 1,700 times to more than 75,000 people in 12 countries about customer service, leadership, motivation, and communication. In 2014 Barbara was the 14th woman in the world to be honored by Toastmasters International with their elite...

Thinking of selling your practice? You don’t just wake up one day and put a “for sale” sign in the window. You prepare. Rex Plamann with DDSmatch offers some advice on how to prepare.   Rex Plamann is a tenured dental professional and partner at DDSmatch in Chicago. In his role at DDSmatch, Rex provides services focused upon practice sales, associate recruitment, practice valuations, and the formu...

Is private equity knocking at your door but you don’t want to let them in? How can you if they’re floating an attractive offer? Dr. Chad Fleming with Wichita Optometry has faced down Private Equity and shares how he’s done it.   Dr. Chad Fleming is an optometrist at Wichita Optometry in Wichita KS. He’s been practicing Optometry since 2002 with a focus on primary eye care and a special interest in...

Scott Rattigan is a licensed attorney, business and mindset coach, integrative medicine practice consultant. His passion is helping integrative and functional medicine providers build and grow their practices to realize their goals and fall back in love with practicing medicine.   He founded Functional Lawyer to address the lack of legal support in the functional medicine practitioner community. I...

Many private practices are structured as partnerships, but not all partnerships are the same. Dr. Brad Block is an ENT with ENT and Allergy Associates, the largest ENT practice in the country, and one where every last ENT doctor can become a partner. Brad describes how it works and why they do it this way on PracticeCare. Bradley Block, MD, is a private practice otolaryngologist on Long Island, Ne...

You have a practice but also have a new business you want to start – an invention, an offshoot of your practice, or something else. You probably need funding. Leslee Cohen with AllRise Legal Counsel helps with equity investments, and she demystifies these investments in this episode.   Leslee Cohen is the founder and managing partner of AllRise Legal Counsel. She concentrates her transactional pra...

Are you on the fence about using TikTok in marketing your practice? Kristina Hall of Hall Social Media will help you understand TikTok enough so you can decide to start, or not.   Kristina Hall owns and operates Hall Social Media. She is a master of all things social media marketing, from content creation to email marketing. Kristina prides herself on creating long lasting client relationships and...

Are you thinking of doing a 180 in your medical career? Dr. Anita Wang thought about it, did it, and shares her experience and lessons learned in this episode.   Dr. Anita Wang is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and has been in practice for over 30 years including Doctors Without Borders and UCLA. As an E.R. Doctor, Dr. Wang helps people when they are at their worst. By 2012 she rea...

Are you losing patients to a hospital, health system, or another larger competitor? Dr. Christopher Formanek was staring down the same future, but he made changes to his practice to compete with them in a different way.   Christopher Formanek, DPM, is a renowned podiatrist and the founder of Footsteps, located in Baton Rouge and Gonzales, Louisiana. Dr. Formanek is a Board Certified, Diplomate Min...

What if there were a “sort of” LendingTree for doctor/owners who need a loan?   I’m married to a dentist. I remember what my wife, Carmen, and I went through together as she was pursuing her goal of launching and building her practice. I remember the constant uncertainty when dealing with banks, the skepticism from lenders, and yes, the denials, too. It was frustrating, emotionally draining, and h...

Episode Notes How can a private practice pay their clinicians competitively when the big guys have more money to pay? Dave Jeter faces this very question and has an innovative compensation model that’s working.   Dave Jeter is a partner at Acceleration Physical Therapy which has 4 locations in the greater Spokane, WA area.    In this episode Carl White and Dave Jeter discuss: What his compensation...

Episode Notes Delegation is a necessity if you want to grow your practice, but delegation is hard! How do you get over the fear and uncertainty and start doing it? Dr. Candace Creasman lived through it, started delegating, and shares her story on PracticeCare.   Dr. Candice Creasman Mowrey is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor in North Carolina. She opened Creasman Counseling i...

There is money to be saved in private practice all around you! Some is obvious. Some maybe not so much. Jonah Francis, President of Pansy Homecare Service in Connecticut finds new ways every year and shares some of what he does and how he does it.   Jonah Francis is a men's health advocate with an emphasis on Dementia. He is also a Certified Dementia Practitioner and sits on the Board for the ALZ...

Since dentistry is so competitive for patients, what does it really take for a dental website to stand out from the crowd? Gary Bohringer has the experience to know.   Gary Bohringer owns and operates Bohringer Creative. Gary is a creative marketing strategist who helps small- and medium-sized businesses produce measurable results via direct marketing. After 10 years in corporate marketing in the...

Who better to talk about marketing for dentists than a dentists who does a lot of marketing and has tried many different things?   Dr. Bobby Grossi is a compassionate dentist, motivational speaker, and author committed to making a positive impact in the lives of others. He provides free dentistry to those without insurance every year and actively participates in his community. In addition, Dr. Gro...

Are you curious about Google Ads for your practice? Have you been burned in the past but still want to see if Google Ads makes sense?   Jim Bilello is President of US Marketing, a Google Ads agency. Jim has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience and has represented key Hollywood Studios, e.g. Paramount, Fox, New Line, Disney, Miramax, Lions Gate for ancillary distribution to colleges and...

Referral sources like to refer to Thought Leaders. How do you develop your own thought leadership? How do you know what Thought Leadership even looks like?   Nicky Billou has worked with Olympic Gold medalists Donovan Bailey & Mark McKoy, and helped Theresa Dugwell set 3 ultra-distance athletic Guinness World Records. An ex-corporate executive, he has become THE trusted adviser to CEOs, entreprene...

Beth Lachance is the CEO of REVA Global Medical, a medical virtual assistant company. Beth is leading REVA Global Medical in vision and the day-to-day business operations securing the functionality of the business to drive extensive and sustainable growth. Combining her strong leadership and determination with her 16 years of experience as a business owner specializing in Real Estate Project Manag...

Colin Carr is a commercial real estate expert who has successfully completed over a thousand commercial real estate transactions while saving his clients hundreds of millions of dollars. Colin founded and scaled CARR, a nationwide commercial real estate company, to exclusively represent the unique needs and interests of healthcare providers. Colin has mastered several niches in the healthcare real...

Kate Krebsbach is a Vice President and business insurance advisor to healthcare practitioners throughout the United States at Roberts Ryan & Associates in Chicago. With Midwest roots dating back to 1927 in the insurance space, she represents the 4th generation in her family's insurance agency. Kate helps physicians by taking the "annoying" insurance stuff off their shoulders so they can get back t...

Shane Littleton has a master’s in healthcare administration and is the CEO of Chisholm Trail Pediatrics in Round Rock, TX. He’s been with Chisholm Trail for 11 years and CEO for the past 5. Shane understands how to balance business and healthcare, while focusing on the patient first.  When Shane became CEO, he vowed to secure the future of Chisholm Trail Pediatrics by keeping his same mission and...

Megan Shull is a Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist and owner of Building Bridges through Communication, a small multidisciplinary home health agency primarily serving adults with developmental and congenital disabilities. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Baylor University and a Master of Science in Communication Disorders from the University o...

From an early age “The Brandon Kelly” knew that he wanted to be a businessman.  Since that time he has gone on to earn a PhD in Business acquisition, and has started, bought, and sold 9 companies.  He was one of the original contestants on the “Apprentice” and has since taken two companies to the “Shark Tank” where they were given deals. His expertise has been requested by over 100 companies in he...

Bridgette Hannigan is Self Pay Medical practice owner who works with the uninsured local hispanic population in Atlanta. One practice offers ultrasound and the other offers primary care. Both practices count larger hospitals and health systems as their competitors. Bridgette finds unique ways to connect intimately with her community in ways that those competitors either can’t do, don’t do well, or...

Kelly Wesner, MSW, LICSW owns and practices therapy at Maple Grove Therapy & Wellness in Maple Grove MN. Kelly’s passion and expertise are to support women ages 16 and beyond through the journey of self-discovery and many times re-discovery. She provides individual therapy and parenting support with the use of evidence-based treatment modalities.   In this episode Carl White and Kelly Wesner discu...