Our objective is to produce maximum results for your practice in the most cost-effective way possible. With over 25 years of consulting experience, we have helped practices of all specialties and sizes, from the solo physician to the 80-physician group. In many cases, our clients are practices that are doing well but know they can do even better with our professional help.

With Conomikes Associates, you deal with practice management experts whose hand-on experience is among the highest in the nation. Our consultants are located regionally making Conomikes consulting services convenient and practical. Here are the six major consulting services we offer:

Six Ways We Can Help You Get Results:

1. Improving Medical Practice Management

This comprehensive service involves on-site review of the entire practice—front office and back office. Goals are to improve your personnel utilization and communications; your billing, collections, and insurance activities; your patient flow management; and physician and staff productivity.
The results you can expect: Increased revenues from better billing and collections; reductions in overhead costs; improved patient service, personnel performance, and physician productivity. Our recommendations will include solutions that can be implemented immediately as well as longer-run plans to improve the practice’s performance.

2. New Practice Start-Up

Physicians starting a new practice have an extensive history of making costly mistakes. This can result in a significant time lapse before the new-in-practice physician reaches the elusive break-even point. The professionals at Conomikes can help the new- practice physician: establish a Strategic Plan; make facilities recommendations including review of space plans; determine personnel needs plus recruit and train staff; develop a marketing plan; monitor and coach opening days’ performance; and a subsequent site visit to recommend improvements for practice efficiency.
The results you can expect: Elimination of costly errors. Establishment of procedures that will result in a profitable practice. Reduction of stress and earlier achievement of break-even point through a better-run practice.

3. Establish an After-hours Clinic

Family Practices and Pediatric Practices should consider establishing an after-hours clinic at their practice. It could be successfully staffed by NPs at suggested hours of:
Monday to Friday—5:30 to 8:30 p.m.; plus Saturday & Sunday—9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The After-hours Clinic will provide a valuable service to many of the practice's established patients. It also would attract new patients whose available time is limited. The After-hours Clinic will also have clerical staff to manage the phone, make appointments, deal with patient insurance, collect co-pays, and receive payment from non-insured patients.
The results you can expect: The Conomikes professional staff can guide the Clinic through the many steps required. This would include: the initial Strategic Plan and timetable; recruiting and selecting the NPs; establishing a marketing program; establish clinical protocols for the NPs as well as procedures for the clerical staff; the early stages of the Clinic would be monitored closely to improve performance. Your pracdtice could expect significant additional revenues and profitability from the Clinic and provide a more accessible practice for new and established patients.

4. Job Search—for Practice Administrators and Office Managers

Physicians don’t have the time or tools to conduct a thorough search for an administrator or manager. Let the professionals at Conomikes help you with your important job search. Also, departing managers and administrators may be too busy preparing for their leaving and the job search may impede their effective performance. For a more complete description of our job search services, click here.
The results you can expect: You will be able to do final interviews with the best 3-4 candidates who have been carefully screened, extensively interviewed and references checked by the professionals at Conomikes.  The Conomikes Job Search is more thorough and leads to better selections.
Conomikes fees for these services are generally below what most search firms charge. And, as consultants, we are highly qualified to define and seek the talents needed for these important positions. For more information contact: George Conomikes, President, Conomikes Associates, Inc. (800) 421-6512.

5. Coding and Documentation Review

Are you overcoding or undercoding when you submit claims? If you are overcoding, you are possibly creating a false claim with penalty potentials. If you are undercoding, you are losing valuable revenue. We can help you. We will conduct a baseline audit of selected claims and compare them with your documentation for those claims. This work can be done off-site at a reasonable cost.
The results you can expect: A written confidential report lets you know if there are problems in coding and/or documentation. Remedial actions are suggested which reduce your risks from miscoding, and unintentional fraud and abuse. If requested, special on-site training in coding and documentation can be tailor-made to your practice, based upon our findings.

6. Strategic Planning

The practice of medicine has become more complex. Physicians need to examine their own futures in light of the changing environment, evolving patient needs, third-party reimbursement mechanisms, referral sources, facilities and equipment requirements, plus expanded services. To ensure success, these programs require a long-term plan and a realistic projection of income, expenses, and capital expenditures.
The results you can expect: Smoother day-to-day operations with a long-term plan that keeps you on course and out of trouble.

Call us for the service that interests you most.
Call toll-free (800) 421-6512

No obligation. Ask for George Conomikes. He will personally review your needs and concerns on the phone.
You will then be given a proposal detailing the consulting service you want, plus our ironclad guaranteed-fee quotation.