scottbeyer, Author at The Independent Pediatrician

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The Pediatrician In Control

Chip Hart explains why independence remains vital, especially as the healthcare industry shifts toward hospital-based care, and shares the feedback he received about our inaugural issue of The Independent Pediatrician.

Management, Solo Practices, Practice Profiles, Suburban Practices Louisiana, Nevada

A Balancing Act

Dr. Mary Kiepert is an independent pediatrician in Las Vegas, Nevada, who has successfully negotiated the delicate balance between work and family life.

Management, Practice Profiles, Medium-Size Practices, Suburban Practices Massachusetts, Pennsylvania

Taming the Lion

Judy Rapoza, a practice administrator in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Jayme Spangler, a biller from Hershey, Pennsylvania, represent staff at independent pediatric practices everywhere who keep their offices up-to-date and compliant with the demands of a fickle health care industry.

Featured, Clinical, Management, Practice Profiles, Large Practices and Supergroups, Suburban Practices Illinois

Leap of Faith

Dr. Susan Sirota is a Chicago-area pediatrician who, along with 39 other independent-minded practitioners from seven practices, met the spectre of hospital consolidation head-on by forming their own “group without walls.”

Clinical, Management, Practice Profiles, Large Practices and Supergroups, Suburban Practices New Jersey

Working Together to Remain Independent

Dr. Jill Stoller and Dr. Krekamey Craig are New Jersey pediatricians from neighboring counties who, believing there is strength in numbers, helped form a merger that puts theirs and three other practices in a position to thrive.

Editorials California

Pediatric Gardens

Budd Shenkin, a San Francisco Bay Area pediatrician who built his solo practice into what is now the region’s largest primary care independent group, suggests that pediatricians, like gardeners, use the inherent landscape and their creativity to grow their practices in a variety of ways.

Featured, Management, Solo Practices, Practice Profiles, Urban Practices Louisiana

The Rewards of Solo Practice

Dr. Bryan Sibley is an independent practitioner in Louisiana whose early experience as a hospital-employed physician taught him that nobody will ever care about his business as much as he does.

Solo Practices, Practice Profiles, Suburban Practices Virginia

The Doctor Is Always In

In 2009, Dr. Gayle Smith, of Richmond, Va., did the research and found there was a desire among families for the type of highly personalized well care that concierge practices do best. Four years later, Dr. Smith’s fee-based concierge practice is flourishing.

Editorials

You Define Affordable Care

Pediatric Practice Consultant Chip Hart questions whether the hype surrounding the so-called demise of the small practice is causing pediatricians to undersell their value to everyone, including themselves.

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