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Protective Covenants – Safeguarding Your Secret Sauce

What is a protective covenant? In general, it is a legal provision in an agreement or legal instrument where one party promises to take or is restricted from taking certain actions or otherwise has certain obligations to protect an interest of another party. Also called restrictive or negative [...]...

Overcoming Roadblocks – From High School Dropout to Beach Bum to Doctor and Beyond

Dr. Scott Irvine knows roadblocks. Mostly, he knows what they look like in the rearview mirror. Businessman, anesthesiologist and founder of Integrated Pain Associates (IPA), Dr. Irvine took several detours on his path to success. In fact, it is those detours and the people who stood by him that he [...]...

Cinco de ByrdAdatto

This year marks our five-year anniversary. In a short span ByrdAdatto has made great strides and hit many milestones along the way. What began as one ByrdAdatto office in Dallas is now three, including a Chicago branch and a satellite office in Greensboro, NC. Staff, clients and opportunities [...]...

Back to the Basics: Preparing for Financial Success

ByrdAdatto is grateful to have this article contribution from guest author Jessica Nunn, Founding Partner with Maven Financial Partners. This article does not express the opinions of ByrdAdatto and should not be construed as legal advice. If you have any questions regarding the article, please [...]...

Medical Spa Show 2020

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50,000ft Overview: Medical Practice Insurance

ByrdAdatto is grateful to have this article contribution from guest author Jason Kunz.  Jason is a Senior Account Executive at NFP,  a leading insurance broker and consultant providing specialized property and casualty, benefits, wealth management, and retirement planning. If you have any [...]...

ByrdAdatto Family Updates

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Breaking News With Michael Byrd and Jim Stanford

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The Best Defense Against a Cyberattack? Cyber Insurance

Dr. Grant Stevens didn’t expect he’d ever play host to the FBI in his busy plastic surgery practice. But that’s exactly what happened soon after he and his colleagues discovered their office had been victim to a cyberattack. “It was like something out of a Ludlum novel,” Stevens said. [...]...

How to Respond to Negative Patient Reviews: A Doctor’s Complete Guide

Not only a partner at ByrdAdatto, I am also the Founder and CEO of Medical Justice/eMerit. Medical Justice has been helping doctors in the online space since 2011. Further, Medical Justice, through its platform eMerit, has assisted doctors in uploading over 300,000 reviews to the dominant online [...]...

Holding Up a Mirror to Your Practice: The Power of a Business Assessment

Holding up the mirror to your business to look at its legal health can be intimidating.  Even with the best lighting, so to speak, flaws can show. Though it may seem daunting, there is great freedom in identifying and understanding those imperfections. The truth is, over time many businesses [...]...

Things We Are Thankful For

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Forest Park Update

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Successfully Launching or Scaling a Med Spa

As a leading international sales training expert in the aesthetic industry, and an affiliate with AmSpa and ByrdAdatto, one of the most frequent questions I get asked when conducting trainings and seminars is, “What’s the number one thing we can do to increase our practice’s revenue? Most [...]...

Medical Justice: De-Escalating Doctor-Patient Conflict for Almost Two Decades

Most doctors wake up every morning intending to do the best possible job. Of course, doctors take care of patients. Not all patients are ecstatic about their outcomes. Sometimes this unhappiness morphs into conflict. Conflict is basic to the human condition. If a doctor takes care of 1,000 [...]...

eMerit: A Decade of Helping Doctors Address Online Reviews – Promoting the Positive, Managing the Negative

Years ago, a doctor only needed to practice the three A’s. Be available, be affable, be able. That was the formula for success. A doctor’s reputation flowed from the 3 A’s. Other doctors would refer. Patients and their friends would refer. New patient volume and new patient revenue would [...]...

Access+ Alert: Medical Board of California on Hair Restoration Technicians

https://player.vimeo.com/video/397050491 Michael Byrd and Patrick O'Brien discuss the warning issued by the Medical Board of California on Hair Restoration Technicians....

The MedSpa Widow Maker

The goal of an initial assessment of a patient, often referred to as the good-faith exam, is ostensibly, to protect the patient.  The good-faith exam serves dual purposes: to establish the physician-patient relationship and to determine whether a patient is a good candidate for treatment.  The [...]...

The Med Spa Industry Is Booming, but Compliance Remains a Major Issue

Anyone involved in medical aesthetics can tell you that the industry has been absolutely booming for some time now. Whether you own a large med spa, operate a small aesthetic practice, or sell devices to providers, chances are you’re making money. Good money. And the industry has shown [...]...

The Iron Man of Access+

In April, Avengers: Endgame (promise no spoilers!) concluded 10 years of interconnected stories for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (“MCU”) that spanned over 22 films, earning north of $2.7 billion worldwide. While there were many jumping-in points throughout the evolution of the MCU, the film [...]...

Reconsidering the C Corp

Traditionally avoided by many small businesses and startups due to the adverse impact of “double taxation”, the subchapter “C” corporation[1] (“C Corp”) is finding new ground with entrepreneurs and business and practice owners. One of the driving factors in entity selection is tax [...]...

NP Autonomy Fiction or Non-Fiction? The Anatomy of Actual Independence

On June 12, 2019, Pennsylvania advanced legislation that certifies nurse practitioners (“NP”) to practice independently of physicians.[1] On June 14, 2019, administrative rules were released in the State of Illinois granting NP to apply for full practice authority.[2]  The State of [...]...