Do YOU Want to Work With Employers?

If you’re considering adding larger employers for additional patients and revenue, you need answers to these basic questions:

• Do you have the capacity to add patients?
• How many can you safely add? And at what rate? Employers can be tricky because you never know how many employees will really accept the offer of DPC even if the employer pays the full amount for it. An employer with 100 employees will likely only bring you 30 or 40 patients -- but can you take all 100 if that happens? It’s tricky.
• Will you take all ages?
• Take Spouses and kids?
• Will you do vaccines?
• Is your practice scope limited in any way that employers need to know about?
• Do you have office space for adding patients? Meaning: Is your office physically big enough?
• Is there enough parking?
• Do you need to get a new location or even add some equipment? Be sure you have plenty of room to accommodate patients and staff.
• Do you have enough staff to add new patients? Maybe you need to add a physician partner or a medical assistant or some front office help? It often takes considerable time to get the right person for these positions. Plan ahead for that...and for the significant increase in overhead that comes with expanding your staff.
• How will you onboard all the employees? One at a time, manually? Will the company HR help? Do you have a link where each employee can do it themselves (often very inefficient)?