Since it’s beginnings in 1993, Ellis and Associates has worked extensively with almost all aspects of healthcare consulting impacting medical practice management and operations. The goal: Help physicians define what they want from their career, how they want their practice to function, and provide the strategic planning to reach the defined targets.
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In short: Let’s find out what you want from your professional practice. Look down the road a few years and put a strategic plan in place to reach your goals. Then work together to achieve those ends.
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“Tom was instrumental in helping our practice through several transitions. He aided us in recruiting and hiring new physicians to join our group. He was especially invaluable in the complicated process of joining a hospital based practice from private practice.His thoughtful attention to detail got us through many tricky negotiations. Tom is extremely receptive and easy to work with. I cannot recommend him highly enough to anyone making changes ​in their medical practice!” —A.G., MD
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Over the last twenty years I’ve done just that. I’ve worked with experienced physicians and their practices as well as doctors establishing solo practices right out of  medical school, handling everything from financial modeling, strategic planning, governance and start up financing to office design, staffing, billing and collections, compliance, marketing, credentialing, and EHR selection. I have valued practices for sale, evaluated practices for efficiency and effectiveness (as well as revenue cycle matters), and advised my clients on hospital relationships, hospital negotiations, and hospital integration. And for the last six years I was a principle in a billing company; our clients included physician practices in anesthesia, orthopedics, trauma and ENT. 

​Here are short lists of the physician categories and areas of activity I’ve dealt with over the years.
​Practice Management and Consulting:
  • Family Practice
  • Internal Medicine
  • Obstetrics/Gynecology
  • Orthopedics
  • Critical Care/ICU
  • Pathology
  • Oncology
  • Breast Oncology
  • Hand Surgery
  • General Surgery
  • Anesthesia
  • ENT
Areas of Activity:
  • Practice Start-ups and Mergers, including financial modeling, operational structure and implementation
  • Strategic Planning
  • Governance
  • Employment Agreements and Negotiations—Physician on-boarding and departure
  • Physician/Hospital Relationships
  • Risk Management
  • Revenue Cycle Management:  Payer analyses and coding
  • Daily Operations/Back Office Structure and Efficiency
  • Patient Satisfaction and Relations
  • Practice Sales
  • Practice Evaluations
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“Seventeen years ago, I decided to leave a large partnership and open up my own practice. A big dream without the details on how to do it! Thanks to Tom Ellis, a very experienced and sharp businessman with expertise in setting up medical practices, I was able to successfully perform the myriad of details required to set up a practice.  
Here are examples of the details Tom will lead you through to make that Dream come true:  
• A sound business plan
• Establish bank relationships for loans and accounts
• Find a physical space to lease or buy
• Work through a leasing agreement
• Find personnel
• Establish a billing dept for your practice or outsource
• Approach vendors for needed equipment
• Set up an EMR
• Establish contracts with insurance companies
   and government providers
• Obtain credentialing
• Establish a patient friendly website
• Find good name branding for the practice
etc…. It is a HUGE undertaking to say the least and without Tom leading the way for this doctor who just wanted to take care of patients, I do not think the Dream would have happened. Seventeen years later, I continue to happily live my Dream. Thank you, Dear Tom!”  —J.G., MD
If you think it’s time to take a look at your practice click on the phone number below (to text me) or the email address to send me a note. 
​Let’s talk,  214-228-5443 
tellis@ellisandassoc.com