A structured method for building or strengthening an independent practice.
It runs in three phases, and each phase ends with a tangible deliverable the client can walk away with.
The framework is modular. Every practice moves through the same three phases, but the work inside each phase activates based on practice type and stage. A solo behavioral health clinician and a multi-provider primary care group follow the same path with a different set of active items. That is what lets one method serve clinicians at every stage: those just getting started, those in the thick of operations, and those ready to scale.
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Foundation and Regulatory Readiness
Objective:
Lay the foundation with the systems, compliance, and financial structure needed to operate independently.
- KEY DELIVERABLES
- Discovery and baseline: A launch meeting and listening sessions to establish a baseline, surface pain points, and map current operations.
- Vision, mission, and business plan: if vision and mission development where not already in place, and a business plan built from the Business Model Canvas, including a multi-year BMC roadmap that guides the next years of operation.
- Legal and entity: structure (LLC or PLLC, EIN, banking), DBA and professional entity registration where required, business license and local permits (site-dependent).
- Identifiers and credentialing roadmap: NPI Type 1 and Type 2, CAQH profile, payer enrollment roadmap (Medicare, Medicaid, commercial), DEA and state controlled-substance registration (prescribers), CLIA waiver (if in-office testing). Credentialing is executed by a specialized vendor coordinated by VHC.
- Compliance framework: HIPAA including Security Risk Analysis, OSHA, business associate agreements, Good Faith Estimate and No Surprises Act process, patient intake and consent packet.
- Risk and insurance: Malpractice, general liability, cyber, workers’ compensation (if staff), business property.
- Financial foundation: Startup budget and twelve-month pro forma, accounting and payroll setup, banking and merchant services.
- Care model and EHR strategy: Care model confirmation (insurance-based, hybrid, direct-care, and more), EHR strategy assessment with cost, complexity, and migration plan.
- WHAT WE DELIVER:
Your Practice Foundation Package
One organized file that holds everything making the practice real: your business plan and Business Model Canvas roadmap, formation and registration documents, the compliance framework, the insurance summary, the twelve-month financial model, and the credentialing and payer enrollment roadmap.
Operations, Technology, and Staffing
Objective:
Stand up the tools, systems, and people the practice needs to run from day one.
- KEY DELIVERABLES
- EHR and clinical systems:Guidance and support on EHR selection, configuration, and migration; scheduling templates and visit cadence; telehealth and patient portal.
- Technology and communications infrastructure: business phone system with auto-attendant, voicemail, and after-hours routing; HIPAA-compliant email and secure fax; network, devices, secure storage, backup, and disaster recovery; cybersecurity baseline (multi-factor authentication, endpoint protection).
- Revenue cycle: billing workflows (coding, claims, collections, denial prevention), fee schedule, and patient financial policies.
- Staffing and people: Staffing model design, job descriptions and onboarding plan.
- Policies and Procedures: A complete, tailored policy and procedure set, built around your practice model and mapped to federal and state requirements rather than generic templates. For example, a one-clinician practice this was a 32-document set spanning consent and patient rights, clinical and prescribing protocols, financial policies, telehealth and multi-state licensure, HIPAA security and breach response, HR, and compliance infrastructure.
- WHAT WE DELIVER:
Your Operations Playbook
A documented, working set of systems: your EHR set up with our guidance, live billing and scheduling workflows, a staffing plan with roles defined, your technology and phone systems in place, and the policies that run the day to day.
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Go-Live, Optimization, and Scale
Objective:
Get the practice off the ground, keep it stable, and build a clear path to grow.
- Go-live:Readiness checklist and execution support, patient panel transition (for clinicians leaving an employer).
- Performance: First-month revenue monitoring, KPI dashboard (panel growth, visit volume, collections, denial rate).
- Growth: A marketing and referral activation plan, capacity planning, ninety-day post-launch optimization plan, and a scale roadmap for multi-provider or multi-location clients.
- WHAT WE DELIVER:
Your Launch Scorecard and Growth Roadmap
A live KPI dashboard showing how the practice is performing, paired with a written plan for the next ninety days and beyond.
Practice Launch 90 framework produced 825% revenue growth and
a doubling of patient volume.
