Resources
The money side of running a practice.
Plain-English guides for owners, solo or group: taxes, owner pay, profitability, cash, hiring. Written for the person running the place, not their accountant.
New here? Start with Why your P&L can't tell you if a clinician is making money.
EveryoneAugust 21, 2026
Three ways to put a calculator on your site
The WordPress plugin is one way. On Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, or anything else, every calculator has an embed snippet that works there too.
NewsAugust 20, 2026
Now you can put these calculators on your own site
Our practice-finance calculators are now a free WordPress plugin. Drop one into a post with a shortcode. No account; numbers run in the reader's browser.
GroupAugust 10, 2026
The handful of numbers worth watching every month
You don't need a 30-metric dashboard. Six numbers, checked once a month in the same place, tell you most of what you need to know.
EveryoneJuly 23, 2026
Paying yourself without starving the practice
Owner pay and profit are two different things. Separate them, build a reserve, then distribute on purpose. A simple policy that beats monthly guessing.
EveryoneJuly 10, 2026
The one number every practice owner should know, and how to find it
Most owners track revenue and a rough sense of expenses. Far fewer can say whether the practice is actually working for them, which is a different number.
GroupJuly 10, 2026
Why your books don't show you whether each clinician is profitable
Your P&L blends everyone together, and your EHR knows what was billed rather than what it cost. Neither one shows what a single clinician actually nets.
EveryoneJuly 10, 2026
Owner pay is not profit, and treating them as one number costs you
Two owners can take home the same $9,000 and be running completely different businesses. The difference is whether that money is pay or profit.
EveryoneJuly 10, 2026
Your real rate is lower than the number on your fee schedule
You charge $200. After the sessions that never happen you earn less than that per hour you set aside, and the gap is wider than most owners guess.
GroupJuly 10, 2026
Fully-loaded net per clinician: the number that decides who you build around
In a group practice one number drives almost every staffing call: what each clinician nets after their full cost, overhead included.
EveryoneJuly 10, 2026
Cash runway: how long your practice can keep its promises
A practice can be profitable and still run out of money. Runway is how long it could keep paying everyone if revenue stopped tomorrow.
GroupJuly 9, 2026
Three ways to pay a clinician (and how to pick)
Salary, commission, or a fee split. Any of them can be tuned to the same margin, so what should decide it is the behavior each one rewards.
GroupJune 25, 2026
What a clinician actually costs you
Pay is only half of it. Payroll taxes, benefits, supervision, and admin time decide whether a clinician makes money. How to run the real number.
GroupJune 11, 2026
Why your P&L can't tell you if a clinician is making money
Your P&L shows whether the practice made money, not whether each clinician does. Here's the per-clinician number it hides, and how to find it.