1997

Dr. James William Parker, 77, founder of the Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas and Parker Chiropractic Resource Foundation in Fort Worth, died Friday, November 7th, in a Dallas hospital after a long recuperation from endarterectomy and bypass surgery several weeks preciously. He was born September 20, 1920 in Snyder, Texas. A graduate of the […]

Let me begin by stating this is not going to be a “witch hunt” against practice management consultants. Quite the contrary. Most of the consultants I have heard about serve a very useful purpose and can be of tremendous help to any practitioner. The horror stories or problems that I have heard about stem from […]

It is estimated that American business and industry will lose about 93 million work days a year from workers suffering with back pain. This “down time” will cost over $20 billion. A waste? Of course. Unavoidable? Not at all. Can you make a difference? Yes, you can! How big of a piece of this multi-billion […]

With the advent of managed care (we call it managed cost), medical and specialty practice is now much more complex, particularly regarding the “business of practice.” When we first started out, a patient would come to a practitioner for services, we performed the services to the patient’s satisfaction and the patient paid for the services. […]

1. What single aspect of your background/ experiences helps you in relating to chiropractor’s unique needs and practice management obstacles? Fernandez I was lucky. I was the associate of one of chiropractic’s original consultants. He taught me how to analyze demographics, successfully start a practice, and how to run a practice by statistics. Also how […]

I suppose it would be more accurate to say that a war is waging; whether we decide to fight is still to be decided. At risk is who will provide drug testing for the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) regulated industries (and other federal programs) and the vast private unregulated market. Indeed, drug testing is […]

While establishing a practice almost a decade ago, I experienced or narrowly missed several pitfalls. While the majority of these are minor by themselves, their accumulation could cost a great deal of time and money. Little things do add up. For example… 1. PERMITS. Building permits are usually needed when remodeling a facility. They are […]

What is your background, Mr. Meeks? I came to Money most directly from SmartMoney magazine. I was there for 14 months editing the feature stories, and I spent eight years at Forbes magazine before that as both a writer and an editor. I started as a writer, and then was an editor for several years […]

New Year’s Day is rapidly approaching and by that time most of your tax fate will be sealed. The wisest tax plan is one that has long range as well as current impact on your tax liability, but there are many tax ideas that can still be implemented between now and New Year’s Day. These […]

As co-authors of Chiropractic Economics’ 1996 and 1997 Managed Care Surveys, we are pleased to share with you the survey results, as well as our comments, observations and opinions. In an effort to identify trends, we compared the following 1997 survey results to the 1996 results. By Gerald R. Weis, DC By G. Steven Baer, […]