Keys to Private Practice Success Tells Health Care Practice Owners How to Expand

BURBANK, CA: Survival Strategies, a consulting firm that works specifically with private practice health care owners, has released a new book entitled “Keys to Private Practice Success, Marketing and Management Skills They Didn’t Teach You in College” by firm co-founder Harvey Schmiedeke.

The book, which draws on 22 years experience of both Schmiedeke and firm co-founder Craig Ferreira in working with over 4,000 private practice owners, covers these topics:
•Building referrals and new patients and other aspects of PR and Marketing for a health care practice
•How to sell your services, ethically and effectively
•Planning and organizing for success
•How to hire and keep the best staff
•The four ways to improve profits
•Increasing profitability
•How to use pay systems and bonuses for staff to stimulate productivity and profits
•How to maximize reimbursements
•How to best evaluate and handle insurance contracts

The book also features case histories from numerous private practice owners giving their views on practice ownership, and how the strategies outlined in the book helped them.

"Mr. Schmiedeke stated “Our goal for more than 20 years has been to help private practice owners achieve real independence, flexibility, and the freedom to make their own decisions - the very qualities that attracted them to the business in the first place. This book will make our strategies for practice growth, business management, and reimbursement improvement available to even more practice owners.”

Mr. Schmiedeke is the nation’s foremost authority in the development of professional referrals, private practice management and marketing. He is co-founder of Survival Strategies, Inc. (http://www.survivalstrategies.com), a consulting company for private practice health care professionals, located in Burbank, CA. Anyone interested in the book “Keys To Private Practice Success—Marketing and Management Skills They Didn’t Teach You In College,” can get more information at
http://www.survivalstrategies.com/email/kpps_book_promo.htm.