When we talk about dental practice valuations we often talk about the importance of providing niche and value add services to build a profitable base of patients. One possible “game changer” could be the mobile dentist. In the US, a travelling trailer tours the country providing free dental care to underprivileged people. The mobile dental… Read More »
I recently heard a radio advertisement for a pharmacy promoting a new service of providing flu vaccinations. The service is a low fixed price and certainly sounded like a compelling offer. This additional service is likely to result in increased revenue for the pharmacy and chip away at a service that has traditionally been undertaken… Read More »
Physiotherapy services can offer a cost-effective way to prevent disabilities from becoming chronic conditions and can speed recovery times from surgery, and musculoskeletal and neurological injuries. Ageing of the Australian population, along with an increase in the incidence of chronic diseases, will have beneficial impacts on demand for this industry’s services. The Physiotherapy Services industry… Read More »
Some private hospitals are so bad that health insurers don’t want to cover procedures done in them. The insurers commissioned a leading academic to assess four years of data on as many as 600 private hospitals – which treat 3.6 million people a year – and apply gradings from “A-triple-plus” to “C-triple-minus”. They want to… Read More »
There’s nothing blurry about the opinion of the city’s independent optometrists: if you buy cheap spectacles, you’ll get an inferior pair of glasses. Many smaller, higher-priced optometrists say they are appalled by the quality of cut-price spectacles being sold by big-buying chain players, including Specsavers, Big W and Costco. They say complex, finely tuned medical… Read More »
Taree dentist, Nancy Saunders-Clay, has been so distressed by parents unable to afford basic dental procedures for their children she has accepted payments of home-kill and bags of avocados in exchange for treatment. “I saw one young girl on the mid-north coast who had an abscess in her tooth and was in a lot of… Read More »
Drug companies will no longer be able to pay for doctors to travel to conferences under new laws proposed by the Greens to get rid of a multimillion-dollar gravy train believed to be contaminating medical practice. As concern mounts about the influence of drug and medical device companies’ largesse on doctors, Greens health spokesman Richard… Read More »
While it isn’t the most common way to enter private practice, some physiotherapists choose to buy existing clinics to avoid the hassles associated with most start-ups and home-based alternatives. Perhaps you’ve saved and invested wisely over the years or have pooled enough capital with colleagues to make a down payment for your dream partnership. Together… Read More »