Smart Pediatrics Resources

How to Start an Independent Pediatric Practice

Pediatric medicine is a growing industry, and more and more pediatricians are choosing to start their own independent practices. Learn the best ways to lay the groundwork for a successful practice.

How a Pediatric Practice Can Attract & Retain Millennial Doctors & Staff

Understanding this tech-savvy generation can help you understand their motivations, what makes them satisfied in their work, and most of all, how you can create an outstanding cross-generational team.

Integrated Behavioral Health: A Guide to Expanding Access

You may have already heard the benefits of integrating behavioral health at your practice. It's a win/win: you get more time with sick patients and in well visits, and your patients get the quality of care and longer visits that help make them happier and healthier.

How to Market Your Pediatric Practice

Learn how to attract new patients and develop a strong local presence.

The 5 Biggest Business Mistakes Pediatricians Make

Failure is an opportunity to reassess and learn from mistakes. While you're good at your profession, it's not enough to simply be a good pediatrician anymore. You also need to understand and excel at the business of pediatrics to make an independent practice truly thrive.

Is Selling Your Pediatric Practice to a Large Healthcare System the Right Decision?

If you're weighing whether or not to sell your practice to a consolidated healthcare system, you probably have a lot of questions: "Is this the right move for my patients and my practice?" "What would selling mean for my staff and my daily practice?" "What would I gain or lose?"

25 Tips to Improve Your Pediatric Practice

Part 2

Part 2 in the series focuses on personal and professional development, empowering pediatricians to become more resilient, productive, and fulfilled in their roles.

25 Tips to Improve Your Practice

Part 3

Part 3 in the 25 Tips series explores the importance of practice culture and financial planning. Key takeaways include strategies for building a positive, collaborative team environment, tips for optimizing revenue cycle management and improving profitability, and guidance on retirement planning and securing your financial future.

Managing Care of the Complex Patient

Complex care doesn't have to mean complex billing. Whether you're a pediatric biller, office administrator, or a physician seeking to learn more, learn how to wield coordination of care codes like a pro.

Pediatric Behavioral Health Coding

Pediatricians are increasingly taking on mental and behavioral health services in primary care settings. Perhaps you've never billed for these services before, or you're sure you could be compensated better.

5 Mistakes That Keep You From Running a Successful Practice

You are a part of a profession that offers invaluable services to your community and the families within it. But you are not only a physician -- you are also a small business owner. Without thinking like one, can your practice really grow to its best potential?

Build a Better Business by Walking Out Your Door

Staying in your office only promotes tunnel vision. When you walk out the door into the wider world of pediatrics, you bring home valuable insights that make for a better business.

How to Succeed as a 21st Century Pediatrician

The modern independent pediatrician wears many hats, as a physician, employer, and business owner. You know it's not enough to wait for patients to come to your office by chance, so your practice also manages social media pages and a website. But how can you grow your practice further to meet the needs of the rapidly changing, modern healthcare world?

Pediatric Business Mistake #1: Lack of Preventive Care Focus

Preventive care is a cornerstone of American pediatric healthcare, because it seeks to care for children's needs before problems arise, leading them to lead healthier lives with fewer medical issues and costs.

Why Your Front Desk Has the Most Important Job in Your Practice

Your front desk is the face of the office. It is where patients are greeted, where patient demographics are recorded, and where revenue is collected. With so much to do, it's easy for front desk staff to get busy, stressed, and disorganized.

Pediatric Business Mistake #2: You're Not Doing Your Homework

Pediatrics is more than caring for patients. You need the business skills that will allow you to sustain an independent practice. As a small business owner and employer, are you doing everything necessary to support your business and staff?

Getting Your Pediatric Practice Paid: How to Set Prices

You already know the process of how insurers pay your practice, but did you know that a common downfall of pediatricians is that they persistently underbill? Bring your practice's revenue to the next level by learning how to price your services to your advantage, using the very information insurers do to bring knowledge to the negotiating table.

Do You Work With the Wrong People?

Work relationships can make or break how you feel about your practice. Not only that, but poor relationships can degrade once-positive staff members into dissatisfaction and performing at less than their best.

2025 E&M Coding Changes Worksheet

Annual updates to E&M guidelines mean changes in how pediatricians choose the appropriate codes for each E&M visit. Learn how to start implementing them in your everyday visits with our latest coding worksheet.

EHR Shopping List

Choosing the right EHR solution is a big decision. Use this checklist to make sure you get everything you need for your independent pediatric practice.

How to Start a New Practice & Migrate Your Existing Patients

Join Chip and Susanne Madden to learn how independent pediatricians can leave an old practice and start anew. The pediatric consulting experts will answer burning questions like, "How do I migrate patients?" and "Can I take staff with me?"

Revenue Cycle Tips & Tricks for the Independent Pediatrician

Revenue cycle management is never as simple as you'd like it to be. Changing rules and criteria for payment from payers can catch unwary billers unawares and scrambling to find the right modifier, code, or procedure. Meanwhile, miscommunication at the front desk leads to incorrectly coded visits. What does this mean for you? Lost revenue and a stressed out team.

7 Pediatric Services That Will Save Your Patients & Practice

In this webinar, PCC's in-house insurance coding and billing expert Jan Blanchard shares her knowledge and two decades of consulting expertise to ensure you continue to serve your patients and families in the best way possible, by maintaining a well-run business.

How to Start a Pediatric Practice: 2019 NCE Follow-up

Join Susanne Madden of The Verden Group and Chip Hart of PCC's Pediatric Solutions Group to learn about the key areas any pediatrician should be focusing on when they're starting their own practice.