House Calls StatUp Manual

How to Run a Low-overhead, High-profit Practice and Get Your Life Back

The latest version of the book that will get you started to a successful house calls practice is here, and as of today it is ranked as the #1 New Release in Physician & Patient Home Care on Amazon!

House calls may be the oldest form of health care delivery, but they are making a comeback. Why? Because it may be the simplest, fastest way to a highly profitable practice and great lifestyle. This book is the definitive step-by-step how-to manual for any doctor, physician or podiatrist who wants to shift from a standard-office based practice to a more profitable house calls based practice.

Here is the story about the book and how the author thrives in this medical practice model:

After completing comprehensive foot and ankle surgery residency training and winning multiple awards from the American College of Foot & Ankle Surgeons and the American Podiatric Medical Association, Dr. Christopher Segler opened a standard office-based podiatry practice immediately out of residency. Through hard work and creative marketing efforts, his practice grew rapidly, and he soon had a full schedule—too full, in fact. He found himself leaving for the hospital in the dark, sitting in the office charting on the weekends, and wishing he had more time to actually talk to patients.

Searching his soul and trying to determine what he wanted to do with the next phase of his career and his life, he made a list with two columns: "Everything I love about the practice of medicine" and "Everything I hate about the practice of medicine." After completing the list, he realized that a standard office-based practice had too many related items in the hate column and too few in the love column.

He then set about creating a practice that would include only items from the Everything I love column, and vowed never again to do anything from the Everything I hate column. The result was a simple fee-for-service, cash-based practice, free from insurance hassles. He opted out of Medicare, stopped accepting insurance, and jettisoned his office and all associated overhead.

The result of that bold move, was a period of fear followed by experimentation that eventually yielded a high-profit, low-stress practice. He now walks his son to school, travels extensively, and earns more money than he did from his previous standard practice, while working a fraction of the hours he used to put in.

This book shows exactly how he built his practice—and how you can, too. The reasoning behind opting-out of Medicare is explained. He outlines the methods he uses to attract patients who are willing and eager to pay on the spot for home-based care. He tells you best practices he learned through trial and error while he built his new model: what works and what doesn’t. If want to get your life back with a high profit, low stress practice, this book will save years of fear, help you skip the experimentation phase, and ensure that you land high on the learning curve so you can start earning a real living and live a great life, right now.

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Dr. Christopher Segler
Doc On The Run

10% of Docs Expected to Stop Taking Taking Insurance in Next 3 Years!

If there was ever a great reason for the timid to start a concierge podiatry practice, this would be it.

A recent article in Forbes discussed reasons why so many docs are planning to go insurance-free in their practices. It is not just fed-up, frustrated and overwhelmed primary care doctors. The AMA says it is across the board. All medical specialities have doctors who now believe running a practice free of third-party insurance reimbursement hassles is the most profitable and best way to go.

An independent research firm claims 9.6% of all doctors plan to switch to direct-pay models of practice in the next 1 to 3 years.

If you are a podiatrist who has historically relied on a group of primary care providers to funnel patients into your waiting room, this is good news.

Birds of a feather...

If you are the only podiatrist in your area who accepts NO insurance, you are the obvious best referral option.

Concierge docs are often viewed as forward-thinking independent risk takers. However the reality is that they aren't really taking big risks eliminating slow-paying third-party payments. They get paid immediately and consistently. The accounting is much simpler. The profit is higher. Life is better.

All of the decreases in time spent on the business side translate into increases in time on the patient care side. There is more time to research new procedures and better techniques. There is more time to respond to patient questions and make podiatry house calls for patients in your practice.

When a podiatrist opts-out of Medicare and stops taking insurance, the primary care doctors all know you are going to provide a higher level of attention than someone who is worried about reimbursement issues based on low-paying insurance contracts.  This alone would be reason enough for them to begin referring their clients to you for podiatric care.

So if you have been thinking about making the switch from a high hassle/low reimbursement model to a low-overhead/high satisfaction podiatry house calls practice, now would seem to be the time.

Dr. Christopher Segler used to take Medicare and insurance. But one day he woke up. After of years enjoying his podiatry house calls practice model in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has been approached by podiatrists all over the country asking one simple question, "Could a house calls based podiatry practice work for me in my area?" And the answer so far, in every case, has been YES! He now often helps other podiatrists set up and get their house calls practices started. If you have a question, you can reach him directly at 415-308-0833. You can view his practice websites at AnkleCenter.com DocOnTheRun.com and LaserToenailHouseCalls.com

Podiatry House Calls Practice How-To Blog

This blog will help you understand everything you need to set up your own highly profitable housecalls based podiatry practice. This practice model is feasible whether you're in a large city or a rural community. You just have to figure out whether or not this practice model is right for you.

If you are reading this, you likely fall into one of 2 groups.
1. Practicing podiatry for years and worn out with practice.
You have been practicing podiatry for many years and have recently realized that the high-overhead of a conventional practice is barely profitable when excepting continually and persistently decreasing reimbursement rates for your services paid by insurance companies.

2. Just getting ready to start a podiatry practice.
You have been working hard through residency and you have learned virtually everything you need to know to care for a patient... except how to set up a podiatry practice. You've heard about podiatry house calls and have decided that that practice model might be right for you.

Regardless of which of these 2 groups you may fall into, the chances are good that a podiatry housecalls practice might be the best setup for you.

I have created this blog in order to help others learn how to set up a low-cost, high profit practice that has the potential to generate significantly more income than the average podiatry practice while working a fraction of the hours.

In the coming posts, you'll learn all the details of this practice model. If you are thinking about setting up a podiatry house calls practice and have a question, you can simply post it as comment. I will post and answer as a reply as quickly as I can.


Dr. Christopher Segler is a podiatrist who previously practiced podiatry in a conventional insurance-based high-volume surgical podiatry practice, which he started from scratch straight out of residency. He became increasingly frustrated with the long wait for payments from insurance companies, insurance denials, massive overhead, and administrative hassles of running a conventional office-based podiatry practice. He then converted his practice into a low overhead, high profit house calls based podiatry practice. As a result, he sees approximately 1/9 of the patients he used to see while significantly increasing his income. Today it is his mission to help other young practitioners and frustrated long-term podiatry practitioners develop the freedom of lifestyle that allows them to have significantly higher income with more fulfilling patient physician interactions in a much more profitable practice model.