Doc Modern Online Course

DIY Basics

A step-by-step guide to opening a new medical practice, including a timeline.

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Foundations for Growth

A step-by-step guide to getting started on your practice startup.

Expert Guidance

Tips on how to avoid potential pitfalls that lead to wasted money and time.

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Customizable templates for revenue projections, business plans and more.

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What's Included

DIY Course Outline

  • Timeline
  • Entity formation
  • Insurance
  • Credentialing
  • Market Analysis
  • Financial Projections
  • Lease/purchase negotiations
  • Design and build out
  • EHR/PM
  • Billing/RCM
  • Branding
  • Marketing
  • Advertising
  • Defining staffing needs
  • Job descriptions
  • Employee Handbook
  • Performance evaluations
  • HIPAA
  • OSHA
  • CLIA
  • Pro forma Workbook – This tool has helped thousands of Doc Modern clients secure financing for their practice startup projects.  It will help you develop realistic revenue projections and cost estimates to determine how much capital is required to get your business up and running.  The pro forma workbook includes a three-year cash flow analysis and a comprehensive estimate of pre-opening expenses.  
  • Employee Handbook – An employee handbook tailored to physician practices is a vital tool that provides clear guidelines and expectations for staff, ensuring consistency in workplace policies and procedures. It helps maintain regulatory compliance, promotes a safe and efficient working environment, and fosters employee understanding of their roles and responsibilities.
Meet Your Instructor

AMELIA (COLEMAN) BECHTEL, M.ED

Amelia has worked with thousands of providers around the country and across specialties to open new, forward-thinking medical practices and assist existing practices to implement new systems and products to improve their workflow and healthcare delivery model. Additionally she has a breadth of exposure leading HIT innovation across the healthcare ecosystem through leadership roles at both top HIT consultancy, MBA HealthGroup, and OhMD, one of the fastest growing healthcare mobile applications.

Her focus: creating medical practices that provide the highest level of patient care by utilizing healthcare IT advances, exploring new business models, and embracing a whole-person approach to medicine.

Prior to shifting her focus to healthcare, Amelia spent a decade dedicated to higher education as a professor and program administrator. Her most recent accomplishment was designing and implementing an award winning Sustainable Innovation MBA (SIMBA) program at the University of Vermont, which is now ranked the #1 Green MBA program by the Princeton Review.

Amelia was a pleasure to work with when I started my private solo gynecology practice alone and from scratch.  She was able to provide big picture planning such as choosing IT platforms, and even worked hard with me on the nitty gritty I needed at the time to set up my practice.  She does everything with ease and always found the answers we needed.  She was a calming presence in a stressful time of starting up of a business and believed in me which made it all easier!! Highly recommend

- Gynecology, Tampa