Protecting Your Practice

Julie Herres, founder and CEO of Green Oak Accounting, author of Profit First for Therapists, and host of the Therapy For Your Money podcast comes on to teach Dan and Dave about the Profit First model. She explains how it works, and how it could benefit practice owners to implement the cash flow system.

Find Julie at greenoakaccounting.com, her podcast at https://www.therapyforyourmoney.com/, and her book at https://www.profitfirstfortherapists.com/

How do you treat selective mutism, and how do you do so ethically when the treatment of choice involves taking your client outside of the office to interact with the world? Listen in as guest Claire Dean Sinclair Psy.D. walks Dan and Dave through her process.

Dr. Sinclair is the owner of Anxiety Therapy of Colorado (https://anxietycolorado.com/) and she runs the annual Courageous Kids Camp (https://anxietycolorado.com/courageous-kids-camp/) which will be held July 22-26, 2024.

In April, the Federal Trade Commission issued a ruling stating that almost all existing non compete clauses will be null and void 120 days after the rule is registered, and that businesses are prohibited from making new ones.

Are they really going away forever? We make no bones about saying we hope so, but the courts have yet to weigh in. Dan and Dave give their opinions about the practice of using them (spoiler alert: not a fan!), and what this could mean for practices.

Where do things stand with the Change Healthcare ransomware hack? Dan and Dave give you updates and where things stand as of now. There's still much we do not know, so we will stay on this story as it develops.

Please reach out if you've been impacted by it and we may ask to either interview you or use your submission to guide future updates. Find us at protectingyourpractice.com.

Would you like to go to prison and be fined $5000 per day for noncompliance? No? Splendid, please listen to this episode where you'll find out about what the Corporate Transparency Act is and how you can be in compliance with it. Turns out it's really easy to not go to prison (for this. We can't speak to any other crime you may have committed).

Elizabeth (Beth) Jerome Ph.D. joins Dan and Dave to educate us on how her practice finds, screens, evaluates, and retains employees to her practice. She gets into the details about her specific application processes, interview approach, background and reference checks, and contracts. We then address how she and her practice handles it should corrective action or termination be necessary.

Dr. Jerome is the co-owner of Wellspring Child and Family Psychology in Fredericksburg, VA (https://www.wellspringchildandfamily.com).

So you've been subpoenaed. What are you supposed to do now?

Listen to this episode, where Dave attempts to explain what a subpoena is before Dan mocks his ignorance, and then gives us the actual legal answer.

We then get in to how you could respond while staying on the right side of disclosure laws. Get this...you're going to have to hire a lawyer. Who could have guessed that'd be part of our advice?

Dr. Rebecca Howard, a psychologist in Denver Colorado set up her private practice right out of graduate school, starting her own practice as psychologist. Along the way, she made a few mistakes that snowballed into serious tax debt. During this episode, Dr. Howard talks about what went wrong and how she got herself back on track. Join Dave and Dan for this irreverent, yet informative chat with Dr. Howard. Warning: This episode gets weird!

Dr. Howard can be found at drrebeccaihoward.com. She specializes in assessments of Autism Spectrum Disorders, pre-adoption, ADHD, learning disorders, mood, and thought disorders.

Have you ever needed to interact with a best interest attorney as a part of your practice? Have you ever wondered what they do? Or are you like me (Dave) and had never heard of this before?

In this episode, we get into what a best interest attorney is and does, when and how courts call upon them to help advocate for the interests of a minor, and when and how they might need to interact with you the practitioner. We also discuss how you might approach those interactions in ways that cover your liabilities while advocating for your clients' interests.

As a part of an appropriations bill just over two years ago, congress passed the No Surprises Act, a law that was designed to protect consumers from surprise medical billing. It quickly became a law that healthcare practices had to scramble to understand. Dan and Dave take you through all you need to know to be compliant with it, including how to construct a Good Faith Estimate and how often to administer it.