How to Join, Buy, Or Merge A Physician's Practice

By Yvonne Fox, Brett A. Levine, Brett A. Levine MD

A practical guide for residents, fellows, and physicians making career decisions, this book provides tools, techniques, and resources that can be employed in the job search, in evaluating opportunities, in negotiating contracts, and in making job transitions. The book helps readers identify goals, assemble support systems of advisors, access resources, evaluate positions and practices, employ negotiating skills so they can obtain favorable contract terms, secure the best practice opportunities available, and make the transition with security--and confidence that they have made the best decision based on their individual preferences. Charts, tables, query lists, and anecdotes are included throughout to educate, stimulate questions, and help readers identify and avoid problems.

* Book is a career road map for tailored for residents, fellows. It breaks an overwhelming task into logical and workable sequential steps * Query lists help the reader identify goals, evaluate potential opportunities, and negotiate favorable contract terms * Dozens of anecdotes, real life situations provide easy to understand lessons to physicians can understand and relate to help them avoid pitfalls and costly mistakes others have experienced * Sample CVs may be used as templates for their own CVs * Names and addresses of national and state medical organizations make it easy to apply for credentials and medical and plan important dates * Key terms educate readers to terms they will hear in negotiations and encounter in their new practice positions

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815128789
• ISBN13: 9780815128786
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for anyone entering practice for the first time

I previously purchased "Finding the Right Job After Residency," but found it to be lacking in detail and depth. I was pleasantly surprised with "How to Join, Buy or Merge a Physician's Practice." This book includes extensive details on how to job search, ask the right questions, evaluate each practice, compare the opportunities, and negotiate a contract. Perfect for the resident or fellow looking for a first job who has a glimpse of how complicated physician employment and parternship are, but needs lots of help understanding the details.

Do you know of any other investment that nets you 300 percent annually?

Use this book to optimize your process of joining, buying, or merging into a practice. Then invest the time it takes you to read this book back into your practice. If you get through this book in 10 hours, and if you use just two ideas, and if each one idea saves just one percent of your time--that will save you 40 hours per year, generating a net annual profit on time invested of three hundred percent. Do you know of any other investment that nets you 300 percent annually? Yuval Lirov, Practicing Profitability - Billing Network Effect for Revenue Cycle Control in Healthcare Clinics and Chiropractic Offices: Collections, Audit Risk, SOAP Notes, Scheduling, Care Plans, and Coding

Fabulous Book!

This book is the bible for physicians looking for a job! Each chapter starts with questions to ask potential employers/ partners in regards to a particular topic. The questions range from the obvious to those you'd never think of. The advice offered is sound and easy to follow. As a graduating resident I found that this was information that I could not find in any other source. I highly recommend it!

An absolute must read

This book is an absolute must read for the physician that is joining, buying, or merging into a practice as well as any accountant, lawyer, or consultant diving into this arena!!

I am so thankful that I read this book

I am about to finish a fellowship in Orthopaedic surgery, and this book really prepared me to evaluate the different practices at which I was interviewing. It is a quick and easy book to read, and for $23 you cannot miss this book. Don't walk over dollars to pick up pennies.