Running a private practice already demands enough from you. Adding hours of administrative work on top of clinical care turns every day into a grind.

Topics: Business Growth, Operations, Practice Management, Patient Volumes

Running a medical practice involves managing dozens of ongoing costs, and understanding them is central to long-term stability. These operating expenses shape how smoothly your business runs and how sustainable it can be over time.

Topics: Operations, Practice Management, Financial, Medical Billing

A Texas physician opened a new practice with everything in place – staff hired, patients scheduled, and a busy calendar ahead. A few months later, a renewal notice went unnoticed in a pile of mail. The license expired. The practice had to pause operations while the issue was corrected. Patients left. Income stopped.

Topics: Operations, Compliance, Practice Management

Every minute spent chasing paperwork or fixing scheduling issues is time taken away from patients. Most physicians don’t go into medicine to manage billing, staffing, or compliance – but those responsibilities never stop showing up. Over time, they start to limit how much a practice can grow.

Topics: Marketing, Business Growth, Operations, Practice Management, Patient Volumes, Financial

Most physicians didn’t go through years of training to become billing experts, HR managers, or IT troubleshooters. Yet that’s exactly what running a medical practice can feel like.

Topics: Operations, Practice Management, Consulting

 

If your medical practice overhead seems to be eating into your revenue, you’re not alone. Research shows that the average medical practice overhead percentage ranges between 60% and 70% of revenue. Which, unfortunately, means a large portion of your income isn’t going into your pocket; it’s going straight to expenses. 

Topics: Operations, Practice Management, Financial

Ending a relationship with a patient isn’t something providers take lightly. But when certain patterns continue – missed appointments, refusal to follow a treatment plan, or inappropriate behavior – it may be time to move on.

Topics: Operations, Practice Management, Physician-Patient Relationship

Referral relationships are part of everyday operations in a medical practice – but they can also create unexpected legal risk. If a physician refers patients to a facility where they have or a family member has a financial interest, that referral could violate federal law. The Physician Self-Referral Law, known as Stark Law, was created to prevent these conflicts and reduce unnecessary services billed to Medicare or Medicaid.

Topics: Operations, Compliance, Liability, Practice Management

Let’s face it: EHR systems aren’t the shiny new toy in your office anymore — they’re the standard. 

For most healthcare practices, EHR implementation is no longer a question of “if” but “how well.” Spurred by federal incentives and evolving care standards over the past two decades, electronic health record platforms have gone from novel innovations to non-negotiable tools in modern healthcare. Today, almost every provider depends on EHR software to centralize patient data, streamline workflows, and coordinate care seamlessly.

But simply going live doesn’t guarantee success. Even well-established systems can leave teams battling workflow hiccups, security blind spots, and lingering frustration long after “implementation day” has come and gone. The real test now isn’t adoption — it’s optimization.

Topics: Business Growth, Operations, Compliance, Liability, HIPAA, Practice Management, Practice Start-Up, IT

Building a healthcare clinic — a space where care meets community — is a dream for many forward-thinking entrepreneurs. You don’t have to wear a white coat to want to make a difference. But if you’re asking yourself, “Can I open a clinic without being a doctor in Texas?” you’re asking the right question.

Topics: Operations, Practice Management, Practice Start-Up