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A Complete Guide for Medical Practice Start-Ups (Part 6)
Revenue Generation and Quality Measures The key to success for any medical practice is always vested in keeping is practically profitable. In today’s hyper-competitive healthcare space, it becomes even more important to sustain your profitability while you’re over-burdened dealing with crushing administrative and ever-increasing operating costs. If you are a medical practice start-up and are …
A Complete Guide for Medical Practice Start-Ups (Part 5)
For the smooth running of a practice, an electronic health record (EHR) software is a necessity, without which a practice cannot function optimally. Practices are making the switch from paper records to EHR on an ongoing basis. Partly, because of the HITECH act, which offers incentives to healthcare ventures for making use of EHR systems. …
Direct Primary Care
In late 2011, I was becoming more and more dissatisfied with practicing medicine. I was being driven by what insurance companies dictated instead of the needs of the patients I was treating, in addition to having to see more patients in a shorter amount of time to maintain the income to which I was accustomed. …
A Complete Guide for Medical Practice Start-Ups (Part 4)
Government policies and compliances Healthcare is one of the most highly regulated industries in the US, and the regulations just keep on increasing with the passage of time. Moreover, the series of regulations that affect a provider’s office are no exclusion. Keeping that in mind, physicians usually have a healthy professional relationship with an attorney …
A Complete Guide for Medical Practice Start-Ups (Part 3)
Feasibility Report and Budgeting To make sure that your new healthcare venture does not get hindered by unpleasant surprises along the way, it is essential to carry out a financial feasibility analysis and conduct detailed budgeting, so that you know exactly how much capital you need and figure out how to acquire it. A financial …