From: Gary Seto <glseto@mac

From: Gary Seto <glseto@mac.com>
Mailing-List: list Practiceimprovement1@yahoogroups.com; contact Practiceimprovement1-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:10:46 -0800
Subject: Re: [Practiceimprovement1] New patient survey
Reply-To: Practiceimprovement1@yahoogroups.com

In response to your survey:
1. How may patients did you start with? (ie. brought with you from another practice)
0

2. How many new patients did you get for each month in the first year? or if that is too complicated how many did you average per day or per month over the course of the year?
Started 2/15/04. I've grown slower than most of the other people who have posted their numbers. I am not in an underserved area.
Mar 13
Apr 4
May 9
Jun 14
Jul 8
Aug 23
Sep 29
Oct 25
Nov 17
Dec 24
Jan 16

3. What was your patient panel after a year?
199 (with 2 more days to go till 1 year

4. After how many months did you close?
N/A

5. What was your patient panel when you closed?
N/A

6. How many hours per day/ days per week do you work? or want to work?
My posted office hrs total 35 hrs/week but I am available almost all the time, as early as 6:30AM and as late as 8PM, and occasional weekends, too. I would like to work 30-40 hrs/week.

7. How many visits do you average in a week?
Currently about 15 pts/week, goal is 50-60/week

8. What is the seasonal variation of your practice? (ie. Elise's residency clinic sees 2500 patients through the summer and 3000 patients a month in the winter.) This affects how long we won't have any money after starting. :) Too early to tell if it's seasonal or just people starting to hear about me. But the week of Christmas was very quiet.

9. How did you advertise?
Local weekly newspaper, quarterly local community magazine, sponsoring little league, donating to local educational groups. Most patients have found me through word of mouth (40%), being a relative of an established patient (15%) or by seeing my name in their insurance provider list (12%). Paid advertising has accounted for only about 15% of new patients. Yellow Pages (free listing) 4%.

10. What is your reimbursement average per RVU? (Ours is looking to be between $60 to $62 for insurers and $37 Medicare and somewhere in the middle for Medicaid and Tricare. We are in Vancouver, Washington.)
I collect about $71 per visit. I don't calculate by RVUs nor do I know how to. South Pasadena, CA.

Gary Seto