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How to Start Your Own Medical Practice: 10 First Steps
When considering how to open a medical private practice it can be difficult to determine where to start. Owning your own practice comes with any number of unknowns. Partnering with an experienced business consultant, specifically, one that is familiar with business...
5 Tips to Grow Your Patient Panel
1. Insurance Credentialing and Payer Contracting for NPs One of the primary things you can do to grow your patient panel is to get credentialed with payers and enroll in various contracts. 2. Marketing for Nurse Practitioners As you...
Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Nurse Practitioner Billing: Implementing Interoperability
Private practice EHR selection and implementation can be a significant challenge for the NP entrepreneur. Not only does EHR documentation play a critical role in tracking and improving patient health, but it also has a direct impact on how to bill insurance...
Nurse Practitioner Business Plan: Turning Your Vision into Reality
As you begin to pursue your goal of becoming a nurse practitioner business owner, start by gathering the many thoughts and ideas that you may have. This will be the foundation of your nurse practitioner business plan. An NP business plan will be essential to...
5 Benefits of Social Media
5 Benefits of Social Media These functions encourage patients to engage in healthcare for themselves and their loved ones. While social media was built for entertainment, it is increasingly being used as a method to communicate vital information to the public. ...
The Benefits of Full-Time Independent Practice
As a prospective nurse practitioner business owner there are many decisions to be made, including the amount of time you intend to dedicate to working within your independent practice. In today’s side-gig economy it is not unusual to see part-time,...
What Is The Meaning of Being A Nurse Practitioner?
All nurses play an increasingly important role in healthcare within many specialties. However, a nurse practitioner (NP) has a unique set of qualifications. So, what exactly is a nurse practitioner, and what do nurse practitioners do? The typical nurse...