Season Five: Pros and Pitfalls of Starting Your Own Practice

Running a private practice goes beyond providing quality patient care—it requires strong business acumen. This season, Dr. Ash Patel and expert guests explore essential topics to help medical professionals build and manage a successful practice. Discussions cover practical insights on setting up an office, designing an efficient and welcoming space, securing patient data, and optimizing patient flow. Experts also share strategies for implementing telehealth, tracking key performance metrics, and navigating the complexities of group practice dynamics. With expert guidance and real-world experiences, this season provides the tools and knowledge needed to establish, grow, and sustain a thriving private practice.

Description: Dr. Ash Patel interviews Smita Ramanadham MD discussing the things you don’t think of when you decide to open your own practice.

Summary: Dr. Smita Ramanadham shares her experience of opening her very own private practice, including the random things that would keep her up at night - as a plastic surgeon you just don’t think about what kind of printers you need to buy when you’re opening your own practice.

Description: Dr. Ash Patel discusses with Parag Butala, MD and Diana Yoon-Schwartz, MD the considerations you should make when designing your practice.

Summary: Dr. Parag Butala and Dr. Diana Yoon-Schwartz share what they wish they knew back when they started. They will compare how their mix of reconstructive and cosmetic services differ and the physical changes they’ve had to make to their office due to the pandemic.

Description: Dr. Patel discusses with James Nachbar. MD the importance of Cybersecurity in your private practice.

Summary: Dr. James Nachbar dives into the vulnerabilities private practices face when it comes to keeping patient data safe. He explains the risks that you should assess, how to securely setup your office network including resources available on officenetworksecurity.com, and how to safeguard your tablets, mobile devices, and laptops.

Description: Dr. Ash Patel discusses Patient Flow with Andrew Rosenthal, MD and Lindsay Pine of Modernizing Medicine.

Summary: Dr. Drew Rosenthal and Lindsay Pine explain the importance of patient flow for your practice, how the adoption of telehealth will help streamline and improve your flow, and how you can adjust your patient care to make sure your patient feels comfortable discussing surgery via telehealth instead of in person.

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Description: Dr. Ash Patel interviews Dr. David Feldman, CMO of The Doctor’s Company Group, Senior VP and CMO of Healthcare Risk Advisors on pressing telehealth questions.

Summary: Dr. David Feldman explains the difference between telehealth and telemedicine, best practices of telehealth, the top three considerations you need to make when implementing telehealth in your private practice, and why it’s OKAY to ask for implementation help from telehealth consulting experts.

Description: Dr. Ash Patel talks with Joshua Korman, MD about the numbers you should be monitoring in your private practice.

Summary: Dr. Joshua Korman shares how he measures productivity, the KPIs that you should be looking at, the platforms to view them on, and his process for using marketing channels. He shares what’s worked for him and what hasn’t and provides tips for those just starting out.

Description: Dr. Ash Patel discusses how to be a good Group Practice partner with Debra Johnson MD.

Summary: Dr. Debra Johnson shares her personal experience of being part of a group practice for over 20 years. She will explain how to choose the right group to join, how to set expectations for partnership within the contract, how to divide responsibilities so every partner is involved and much more!