Meet Latrina Walden. She is a nurse practitioner, educator, business owner, and former healthcare administrator. a healthcare administrator turned nurse practitioner. Her approach to business and education is different in that she came to nursing from that background of being a healthcare administrator is a highly regulated and understaffed area of healthcare. Listen in to …
Today, let’s talk about fee schedules; not a week goes by where I don’t get some questions about it. Questions like: Should the amount I bill be the same as my contracted rate? How do I research fee schedules? How do I come up with a fee schedule for my practice? Should I charge different …
A solid financial policy will do wonders for your practice. It will guide you and your staff as well as your patients on how to do business with your practice. It can help stabilize your cash flow. And it can keep you in compliance. In this episode of the NP Business Matters podcast Barbara talk’s …
Quite frequently in the public Facebook NP business group, the question comes up about starting a cash practice vs an insurance-based practice. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation and myths around one or the other. Neither is perfect and neither is bad. They are different animals if you will that practices need to learn …
What is it like to own your own practice in rural Idaho? Meet Katy Searle, FNP-BC. She practices primary care and rheumatology in a town of just over 400 people. The successful practice she has built has brought people from all around. But, it wasn’t always this way. And in fact, when she wanted to …
Functional Medicine practices are very popular among nurse practitioners. In today’s episode of the NP Business Matters Podcast, I speak with Erin Bagshaw, NP, who believes the future of primary care is functional medicine. Erin’s practice was established in 2004 and was the first NP-owned primary care practice in the Washington, DC area. She discusses: …
Here’s a question we get asked time after time: “Where do I find the money to start a practice?” It’s a reasonable question. After all, it does take some money to start a practice. You need money to lease or buy space and furnish it. It takes money to turn on the utilities: heat, A/C, …