PC 100: Pre-Conference Workshop: Kickstarting Your Private Practice

This interactive preconference session is designed to help new practitioners gain the foundational knowledge and skills needed to start a private practice or take their existing private practice to the next level of success. Guided by a team of experts sharing key information and tips on best practice, participants evaluate their practice to identify their greatest strengths, areas needing attention, and opportunities for growth.

Learning Objectives:

Develop or enhance vision, mission, short/long-term goals for future business; develop/ enhance business plan including vision, executive summary, market analysis, marketing , service description, human resources, and facility layout/design.

Describe how new practices can choose business structures that match state regulations, strategic vision, and financial plans for the organization.

Create a marketing plan and define the needs of health care consumers that influence health care buying decisions.

Identify areas of risk within business structure and systems, funding options, various types of contracts, and the basics of billing and collections.