The Patient Conversion Podcast, hosted by Kade Wilcox with Boost Patients, brings together top surgeons, practice managers, and healthcare leaders to explore strategies for growing private practices and increasing patient surgical volume.
Tune in for insights, best practices, and expert advice on optimizing patient acquisition and practice growth.
Jonah and Matty talk about their “order of operations” for growing bariatric patient volume. They cover how to build the patient funnel and talk Traffic, Leads, and Sales.
The last year and a half has been quite a ride for Dr. Bernie Hanna. In this episode, we talk about his journey in private practice bariatrics. For 17 years, Dr. Hanna was a solo practice. When he decided it was time to grow, he doubled his staff to 20 people and hired two additional surgeons in just 18 months.
In this episode, I talk with Priyanka Pulkur, clinical director at Advantage Point Behavioral. We discuss their service of offering pre-surgical behavioral assessments and the impact that it makes.
Mike Grant has journeyed from West Point to Ethicon (bariatric rep) to being the CEO of an Ambulatory Surgery Center. The center he runs is about to perform their 1000th bariatric surgery.
In this episode we talk about:
A really fun episode with Dr. Sachin Kukreja where I ask multiple ignorant questions about using the robot for bariatric surgery.
Quick facts on Dr. Sachin Kukreja:
Fun Fact: he founded the bariatric surgery program at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago in 2010 and was the director of Bariatric Surgery at the Dallas VA. In 2016 he was the highest volume Robotic General Surgeon and did the most number of bariatric surgeries in the VA system.
Dr. Kukreja is a proctor, consultant, and speaker for Intuitive Surgical allowing him the opportunity to mentor surgeons around the country on implantation of robotic surgery technology in their practices.
Dr. Bo Neichoy talks about growing clinic staff as surgical volume goes from 100 to 850+ bariatric cases per year. Includes: when they hired a full time manager, then a CEO, when they said no to general surgery call, and more.
She went from receptionist to being a linchpin for the clinic.
In this episode, we dive into how she manages to guide 850 bariatric patients from consultation to surgery… by herself… with no expensive software.
We cover:
Gina Ciolli and Bobbie Abuzaid helped TLC go from zero bariatric surgeries to almost 1,000.
They cover:
Can you imagine selling over $70,000 of product per month through your store?
Lauren Armstrong, lead dietitian, explains how to build a program that promotes in-store sales.
As a kid, Trevor memorized all the facts and data from his baseball cards.
Now he’s a little obsessed with the metrics of the bariatric clinic he manages in Oklahoma.
Weightwise is a “one stop shop” for bariatrics. With over 20 employees, they provide in house exercise and dietary, psychologist, a full gym, etc.
Drs. Walton and Broussard perform 500 bariatric surgeries per year. In this episode, Trevor talks about the most important numbers he tracks.
