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Leaving a Salaried Healthcare Job for Private Practice: The Revenue Needed to Replace Salary, Benefits and Pension
In a worked example, matching a $100,000 salaried package takes about $238,200 a year in collections in Canada and about $269,000 in the US. This guide prices the full package, compares how major healthcare pension plans index for inflation, and...
How CSBFP Works — And What It Actually Covers for Canadian Clinic Operators
Most Canadian clinic operators who've done any financing research have encountered CSBFP. Fewer understand exactly how it works — specifically that it isn't a government loan, that the government's role...
Starting a ClinicThe Three Capital Stack Structures Most Clinic Startups Use
A capital stack is simply the combination of financing sources used to fund a project. For a clinic startup, it determines three things that matter enormously in the first two...
Practice ValueHow Healthcare Practice Valuations Are Actually Calculated
Most independent clinic owners think about practice value once — when they're thinking about selling. The operators who end up with better outcomes are typically the ones who understood how...
Financing & CapitalWhat DSCR Is and Why Your Lender Will Ask About It Before Anything Else
Nobody teaches you what DSCR means until you're in a room with a lender and someone says it with an expectation that you already know. Most first-time clinic operators don't....
Financing & CapitalEquipment Leasing vs. Buying for Clinics — How the Decision Actually Works
The equipment financing decision appears simple on the surface. It becomes more interesting — and more consequential — when you look at the actual mechanics and the variables that make...
Benchmarks & MarginsHow Dental Practice Overhead Actually Works — And Why Margins Are Tighter Than Most Expect
The conventional wisdom is that dentistry is lucrative. The nuanced version — which is the one that matters when you're actually running a dental practice — is more complicated.
Starting a ClinicThe Real Cost of Opening a Physiotherapy or Physical Therapy Clinic
Search for physiotherapy clinic startup costs and you'll find ranges so wide they're almost useless as planning inputs. The variation is real — but it's not random. It follows a...
Starting a ClinicWhat Lenders Actually Look At When a Clinic Applies for Financing
There's a version of the lender conversation that goes well and a version that doesn't. The difference usually isn't the business — it's whether the operator understood what the lender...
Starting a ClinicThe Four Numbers Every Clinic Startup Needs Before Signing Anything
The Four Numbers Every Clinic Startup Needs Before Signing Anything | KlinDeck Most clinic startups don't fail because the owner wasn't a good clinician. They fail because someone committed to...