I-MED, LLC - Start-Up Planning
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Complete A - Z start-up of centers, which are less and less based on urgent care and more and more on primary care, wellness and occupational health services. This includes development of the business plan, marketing plan, producing all financial projections for the first five years of operation, identifying all required equipment and supplies, working with the client's builder, developer and architect (if required) and coordinating all financial, legal and accounting aspects of the new center.

 

Is I-Med's Start-Up Planning service for you? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for some more answers.

Key Benefits

Increased revenues by avoiding the learning curve associated with any new project. This includes higher fees from HMO's and PPO's based upon I-Med's international experience in negotiating rates. Use I-Med's customized marketing program for your area (only available on Category II & III Service Plans) to add corporate and industrial medicine accounts to your new or existing practice.

Cost savings by using I-Med's industry wide knowledge of true vendor costs for supplies, equipment, software and hardware. I-Med builds numerous medical centers annually and this allows us to do comparison shopping on a continual basis. We will show you the latest in technology and do cost benefit analysis on using low tech versus high tech in your center (only available on Category II & III Service Plans).

Save research costs, devlopment time and avoid paying numerous vendors by utilizing numerous documents and templates proven in hundreds of ambulatory care centers world-wide available to I-Med clients.

 

Capabilities

Category I

I-Med charges $7,500 for new and existing ambulatory care center operators to review the operation and provide basic information to help the center cut costs and increase revenues. All three categories give the client a custom business plan, five year financial projections, a basic marketing plan and specific recommendations to increase efficiency in any existing or contemplated facility. This fee includes one site visit and the fee can be rolled into a Category II or Category III plan, if the client wishes to have more extensive consulting services from I-Med.

Category II

I-Med charges $25,000 for a comprehensive service to set up a single site center. This includes many custom features, such as a detailed custom lay-out (furnishings, cabinetry, plumbing, and electrical break-outs for use by contractors, developers and to cut architectural and engineering fees when desired by a client or required by zoning regulations). The marketing plan discusses specific industries in the area, looks at managed care providers and studies area competition in detail and makes specific recommendations to deal with these opportunities.

Category III

I-Med charges $50,000 for a comprehensive service to set up multiple sites. This entitles the client to higher discounts on equipment, as I-Med's reputation gives vendors assurance that a client will be purchasing multiple pieces of equipment over a specified period of time. I-Med will also look for multiple sites (up to six) for centers within a 50 mile radius of the "home" center or client specified location. The business plan, organizational charts, marketing plan, financials and computer systems are all custom designed to reflect the corporate nature of a multiple site center. The service also incorporates I-Med's normal $7,500 fee to set-up a paperless office system over multiple sites!

Essentially, the differences between the three plans for ambulatory care set-up are as follows: