PracticeCare

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...

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...