Marketing Your Practice Series, Part 1: Defining Your Competitive Edge
Effectively market a practice. It is critically important to defining the competitive edge when beginning a practice, moving to a new location, or encountering new competition in an established practice.

Marketing Your Practice Series, Part 2: How to Introduce Yourself to a New Community
As a fellowship or integrated residency trained vascular surgeon, your skills in the surgical and nonsurgical treatment of arterial, venous, and lymphatic disorders provide a valuable resource to the community. Referring physicians in your community need to understand that by sending a patient to you, the patient will receive the very best in vascular care, including evaluation, risk modification, endovascular treatment or open surgery, and follow-up.

Negotiating a Compensation Plan
Learn how to design a compensation plan, pros and cons of various incentives, financial drivers in formulas, and recent trends in compensation formulas in private practices and hospital employed vascular surgeons, as well as a few negotiation tips.

Practice Mergers: Key Business Questions and Decisions​
Every shift in the national approach to reimbursement or healthcare legislative status quo drives a change in the composition and operations of medical groups. The general thrust is to form either specialty specific or multi-specialty collaborative organizations in order to take advantage of economies of scale. The trend has favored formation of larger groups. Failed mergers/acquisitions are usually the result of inadequate preparation. This practice memo is intended to aid vascular surgeons contemplating or in the process of a practice merger/acquisition with the business questions and decisions involved in the process.​​

Vascular Surgery Boards
Review the board certification process for vascular surgery with helpful hints for preparation.

Updated March 2013
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