The Medical Practice Start-Up Guide
Paperback
Drawing on best practices developed by the experienced medical practice management consultants and hands-on managers of the Halley Consulting Group, LLC, this invaluable guide helps you make the smartest start-up and management decisions.
If you’re looking to combine the freedom to deliver excellent care with solid financial and quality-of-life rewards, The Medical Practice Start-Up Guide is absolutely a “must” read. Even if you decide you prefer to join an existing practice, the book contains valuable information on making the most of how you practice medicine and helps you contribute to the business know-how of your more established associates.
Noteworthy Features:
Key tactics for choosing what’s right for your specific dreams and needs, from type of practice and office location to technology.
At-a-glance charts help you master overhead expense allocation, practice performance assessment, business insurance, practice management software options, patient intake processes, and more.
Trouble-shooting checklists take the guesswork out of office space leasing, practice promotion, forms and printed materials, key practice growth indicators, human resources issues, and more.
Time-saving Internet links speed you to forms and applications, and federal government labor, safety and billing laws and requirements.
Glossary of terms and resource guide simplify the credentialing process.
Marc D. Halley, MBA, is the founder of The Halley Consulting Group, LLC and has
served as its CEO since 1995. The company is the culmination of many years of providing
practice management and consulting to varying medical specialties, including hospital-
owned primary care networks. His career in health care spans more than twenty years,
and his experience includes the development of numerous tools and models now used by
the firm to assist their clients in improving medical practice operations. Marc has also
worked hands-on in physician recruitment, compensation, medical staff development planning, strategy and governance, contract negotiations, and medical practice network financial turnarounds.
Michael J. Ferry, MPA, is vice president of operations for The Halley Consulting Group,
LLC. Michael has worked in the healthcare industry for more than twenty-five years in
varying leadership roles for both hospitals and physician networks. He has been engaged
in physician practice development for ten of these years, both working with Halley
Consulting and serving as the lead operational executive for a large regional physician
network affiliated with a national health care organization. Michael has specialized in both
medium and large clients in his work with Halley Consulting, including networks of up to
180 physicians. He is also actively involved in providing extensive consulting services to
smaller practices. This work has included practice acquisition, network start-ups and a full
range of consulting and implementation activity leading to practice and network growth
and improvement. Governance formation and development is a particular area of interest,
and he has worked in that arena for many Halley clients.