Associated Healthcare Advisors is a full-service Medical Management and Compliance Consulting Firm that has been in business for over two decades, serving National Medical Practice Management needs. Thank you for inquiring on our consulting services. We look forward to working with you if our experience, talents and availability meets your needs. Let me take a moment to describe to you what we do and how we normally do it.

As an active medical management consultant for 23 years, we have dealt with a variety of medical practice management issues for almost all specialties and practice modes. We have also stayed in tune with such issues (indeed, with virtually all practice management issues) as an author of books and publications that provide practice management solutions since 1998.

We offer consulting services on a narrowly focused and issue-specific basis, or as a project over a period of months, such as practice start-ups or regulatory and billing compliance. Those assignments are often in conjunction with other consultants, attorneys, accountants and/or other advisors. I will be pleased to recommend such advisors if I know of any that may fit your needs. I am affiliated with consultants in whom I have particular confidence, and when we work together it is a pleasure for me to serve through them.

Our experience leads to the following particular consulting capabilities: practice planning, physician/co-owner arrangements, Insurance Liability Risk Reduction; Regulatory Compliance, Litigation Support for Audits; Accreditation & Certification, and IRO (Independent Review Organization) Services practice valuations;, group dynamics; retreat facilitation; inter-partner and group meeting resource assistance and the like.

We have an educational and training school, TopCat, which offers direct consulting, education and training to lay staff in a multitude of topics from OSHA to practice operations, contract negotiations, clinical service delivery, billing and reimbursement, cultural diversity, and behavioral sciences. If an on-site visit is appropriate, we will provide a brief written summary of the undertaking and our recommendations but, unless requested or especially helpful to the client, the report will not be an extended, all-purpose document.

If we can agree that our capacities and availability will probably fit your needs, we can assure you of an honest, straight-talking effort. We are particularly proud of serving as an independent thinker who sees, expresses and advises by the “big picture” for long-term practice success, yet sees the small steps one has to take along the way to solutions. If appropriate, it will be a pleasure to serve that way for you.