Opportunity assessment check list

Opportunity Assessment for Nephrology Fellows

Practice Environment

  1. Management Structure
    • Partnership track
    • Solo
    • Partnership
    • Group
    • Multispecialty
    • NP/PA
    • Coverage

Demonstration of Need

  1. Too many patients
  2. Too much time to wait for appointments
  3. Market expansion
  4. New center
  5. New business venture
  6. New competitor in the market

Health Care Facility

  1. Hospital
    • Outpatient
    • Inpatient
    • Encounters
    • Dialysis Center
    • Clinic
    • Ownership
      • Joint Venture
    • Ancillary income opportunities:
      • Medical Director Agreement
      • MRI
      • Kidney Ultrasound
      • CKD Clinic
      • Vascular Access Center

Practice Volume

  1. Payer Mix
  2. Hospitalist program
  3. Primary Care Physicians
  4. Urology
  5. Cardiology
  6. Endocrinology

Financial Package

  1. Employed
  2. Income guarantee
  3. Research/Clinical Trials

Location

  1. Significant Other/Family Needs
  2. Population
  3. Nearest Major City/Distance
  4. Economy
  5. Recreation
  6. Schools
  7. Climate
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