Practice Management 101 (Part 1)

go i mean in pediatrics it's more preventative care preventative medicine which i don't think typically caught like makes as much money anyway as like sick visits and all the hospitalizations and treatments and all that stuff so

Oh, no.

I will tell you.

Yeah.

In pediatrics, all of the money is in preventive care.

All of it.

It's good to know.

I can tell you very discreetly that...

I'm not telling you discreetly, but very specifically, that the practices who do more well, those that generate more revenue, period.

On average...

A well visit generates somewhere between two and two and a half times what a sick visit does.

And although a fair amount of that is vaccines, there are plenty of there are plenty of well visits that don't include vaccines.

And further, preventive care is the one place where you can go out and seek patient volume.

You can harvest it.

You can go to your community and say, hey, you need MMRs.

You need well visits.

You need hearing and screening.

You need behavioral screening.

You can't do that with sick visits unless you poison the local water supply.

So as a pediatrician, and for many more reasons, I am a strong advocate of preventive care being your fundamental focus because I also think it has a huge financial impact.

Mm-hmm.

maybe bigger than, bigger than sicknesses.

That's my experience.

Yeah.

Now, Dr. Skinner, are you still the champion for our chapter for practice management? I