{"id":2287,"date":"2010-03-05T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/doctor-dollars\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T06:19:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:19:48","slug":"doctor-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/doctor-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/03\/04\/news\/economy\/medicare_doctor_costs\/index.htm?section=money_news_economy&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_news_economy+%28Economy+News%29\" target=\"_blank\">CNNMoney.com article<\/a> is fascinating, at least to me.\u00a0 A doctor opens up about his clinic\/practice in terms of the financials of it.\u00a0 As a small business owner, I have a complete appreciation for the decisions he has to make in terms of his business.\u00a0 At the end of the day, it is a business.<\/p>\n<p>If you think your business has to fund some extraordinary insurance policies, wrap your mind around this information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fixed costs for a private practice also include malpractice insurance. He pays about $7,000 a year for himself and $2,000 each for his two nurse practitioners. Schreiber admits that his cost for malpractice insurance is relatively low, compared to specialists such as ob\/gyns, who pay upward of $100,000 a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just about did a spit take that would have showered my laptop with coffee.\u00a0 Anyway, it is an interesting read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This CNNMoney.com article is fascinating, at least to me.\u00a0 A doctor opens up about his clinic\/practice in terms of the financials of it.\u00a0 As a small business owner, I have a complete appreciation for the decisions he has to make in terms of his business.\u00a0 At the end of the day, it is a business. If you think your business has to fund some extraordinary insurance policies, wrap your mind around this information: Fixed costs for a private practice also include malpractice insurance. He pays about $7,000 a year for himself and $2,000 each for his two nurse practitioners. Schreiber admits that his cost for malpractice insurance is relatively low,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/doctor-dollars\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[1537,1536,1538,1427],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-AT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->