Nick Hernandez

Understanding the key legal structures — asset purchase, stock purchase, and merger — is essential for physicians navigating the complex and high-stakes process of buying, selling, or merging a medical practice.

Understanding the legal structures of medical practice acquisitions—asset purchase, stock purchase, or merger—is essential for practice administrators navigating today’s complex, high-stakes transaction landscape.

Most physicians are caught on the “entrepreneur merry-go-round”, dealing with business issues, family, staff, banks and so on, and find it difficult even to plan this year’s strategy, let alone figure out whether it’s time to sell.

Conducting post-merger integration at a high speed is one of the most critical elements to a deal’s success.

While analyzing the competition is an essential component of your strategy, most medical practices don't conduct this type of analysis systematically enough.

You’re a great leader, and you run your practice like a well-oiled machine. But what happens when you’re gone?

Valuations change over time and not all acquisitions are a good deal.

Growth has its risks, but the right strategy can deliver stability, security, and long-term profits.

Don't let these mistakes mess up your merger.

Historically, valuations were largely considered the total earnings of the owner, whereas investors focus on the profits of the business as a basis for valuation.

A merger is an extremely significant move for each physician group involved.

A well-etched strategy, astute management team, and an eye for details is what encapsulates the essence of successful merger.

Don't overlook the importance of an extensive competitive analysis.

These mistakes can get in the way of all of your practice's best laid plans.

Keep these things in mind when formulating your strategy for next year.

There are many tried and true steps physician partners can take to facilitate the smooth transition of ownership.

The process of merging physician groups can go off without a hitch, but this is not always the case.

Sometimes, collaborating with another business that is able to plug the gap can be the way forward, giving you credibility as you move into a new area.

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One thing that can help you on your path to selling your practice is to understand some of the basic tenants of practice valuation.

Business partners can become your greatest asset or worst liability.

Considerations before entering into a joint venture.

What you should consider before stepping away from your practice.

Entering a physicians partnership is not a process that should be rushed through nor taken lightly.

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It's never too early to start planning next year's strategy.

The decision to buy, sell, or merge a medical practice is more complicated than ever.

The most common reason for strategy failure is that they failed to build execution into their strategic planning process.

Regardless of the reason for selling, there are numerous complex issues a medical practice must consider when its owners decide to sell.