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1.The Road to Market Power: Models for Pediatric Practices to Aggregate and Grow (2008)
Herschel R. Lessin, MD, FAAP, Norman "Chip" Harbaugh, MD, FAAP
As pediatric practice changes, practice models must change as well. Therefore, it is important to consider going BIG.
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2.Closing a Practice Handbook: Communicating the Change (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
This section of the handbook provides a tips on who to alert, medical record retention, and alerting patients. (From the Closing a Practice Handbook.)
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3.Closing a Practice Handbook: Decreasing Responsibilities and Options (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
This section of the handbook provides options for decreasing responsibilites, other practice opportunities, and maintaining licenses and certification. (From the Closing a Practice Handbook.)
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4.Closing a Practice Handbook: Preretirement Checklist (2009)
Michael O''Halloran, MD, FAAP, Jerold M. Aronson, MD, FAAP, and Avrum Katcher, MD, FAAP
This section provides an overview of various considerations associated with retirement. Many of the organizational issues listed herein will happen automatically; they are included because this list is partly generated from the experiences of already-retired physicians who think a comprehensive list such as this would have helped them. This is not meant to substitute for discussions with your department chair, the institution medical director, or the human resources department. (From the Closing a Practice Handbook.)
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5.Closing a Practice Handbook: Transitioning From Full-time Practice (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The following section provides tips on making the decision to transition, planning the transition, transition options, and more. (From the Closing a Practice Handbook.)
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6.Template Letter: Closing or Retiring from Practice (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Template letter to patients/families regarding the physician's retirement or closing of a practice.
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7.Tool Q: Suggested Timeline (2008)
Section on Telephone Care
Sample timeline for physicians integrating charges for telephone visits into their practice. This is part of the AAP's Payment for Telephone Care: A Toolkit.
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8.Adding Another Pediatrician to Your Practice: A Practice Management FAQ (2009)
Don Barich, MD, FAAP
This article provides factors to consider when thinking about hiring an additional physician.
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9.Compensation Formulas for Pediatric Practices (2007)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pediatricians may decide at some point in their careers that they want to spend more time raising a family, caring for loved ones, or beginning to ease into retirement. If you or one of your partners is considering decreasing practice time, it is important to find a way that works and is fair for the pediatrician decreasing time as well as the practice. This article provides 2 options to consider.
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10.Determining the Value of a Buy-in for New Partners and a Buyout for Retiring Partners: February 2007 (2007)
Practice Management Online
Article provides AAP members' experiences related to buy-ins for new partners coming to a practice and buyouts for partners leaving the practice.
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11.Purchasing a Practice (2007)
AAP Section on Administration and Practice Management Listserv
This article was developed as a summary from the Section on Administration and Practice Management (SOAPM) e-mail list about purchasing a practice.
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12.Assessing the Value of a Group Practice (2009)
Bill Zurhellen, MD, FAAP
The shares of a group practice are worth only what all partners agree to...and that depends on what the shares are to be used for. In most practices, that is the buyout or pullout value, which in many cases is equal to the decreased income of a new partner as the buy-in or get-in value. This article provides the key points in determining the practice value.
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13.Contingency Planning: Interruption of Pediatric Practice (2008)
AAP Section on Administration and Practice Management Listserv
This document was created as a result of a Section on Administration and Practice Management e-mail list conversation about options for what contingency plans pediatricians should have in place if something should happen to them, leaving them unexpectedly unable to provide care because of illness, family emergency, or death.
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14.Developing Market Power — The Full Asset Merger (2006)
Herschel R. Lessin, MD
Provides details regarding the full asset merger model that can be used by pediatrician to develop market power.
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15.Practical Pointers: Deciding Whether to Join Forces with Hospital Systems (2006)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Poses key questions for pediatricians to consider prior to making the decision to join forces with a hospital system.
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16.Transitioning to a Nonclinical Health Care Career (2006)
Jan Berger MD, MJ, FAAP
Considers the various issues pediatricians face when transitioning to a non-clinical career.
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17.Strength in Numbers: Merging Practices—the “Macro View” (2005)
Charles A. Scott, MD, FAAP
Describes the tactic being used by many pediatricians to strengthen their negotiating power in a difficult health care economy: merging with other practices.
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18.Returning to Independence (2003)
Norman Fienman, MD, FAAP
Shares one pediatrician's experiences in going from a small practice, through a merger, and back to an independent practice.
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19.Retirement-You Had Better Get Ready (2002)
Don Barich, MD
Provides suggestions to pediatricians considering retirement.
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20.Retiring from Practice (2001)
Don Barich, MD, FAAP
Through the experience of one pediatrician, provides some key questions to ask when considering retirement from pediatric practice.
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