How to Start your own Ultrasound Business with Jennifer Lindsey
Episode 25 Rad Talk season 2 episode 4
1- 7 minutes: Jennifer Lindseys story of how she started her ultrasound business.
01:30: She is NOT a Sonographer, and she started her own ultrasound business.
05:00 - They teach Echo ultrasounds and have an entire ultrasound machine business division.
7 minutes - There are eight different business models people can create for ultrasound.
9 minutes: Mobile ultrasound is the business model many clients like to start with.
11- 14 minutes: Being set up with insurance as the provider
12 minutes: Medicare classifies it as an Independent diagnostic testing facility (IDTF). Mobile or standing facility.
17 minutes - Did you immediately buy the machines to start out?
19- 21 minutes: Don’t market to the physician practice that has tons of patients, look at the physicians who have a certain number of patients you could do all their exams once a week
22 minutes: $125 an hour per physician client a Sonographer can charge. $1,000 a day in revenue.
23 - 24 minutes: Jennifer's tip from a mishap when they first bought their brand new ultrasound machines they can look back and laugh at now.
26 - 29 minutes: Jennifer’s business partner can guide you where to purchase the ultrasound equipment from.
29 minutes: The ultrasound equipment is very mobile to the point it can even sometimes fit in a suitcase.
29:20- 32 minutes: Jennifer recommends ultrasound equipment to use.
34 - 37 minutes: You have the ultrasound expertise already, if you have the entrepreneurial spirit this is right up your ally.
37 - 39 minutes: find Sonographers with that entrepreneur spirit, and work for them
39 - 45 minutes: Legal side of the business can be very expensive and it can cost you if you don’t know. No worries, with Jennifer's program you have a roadmap
46 - 49 minutes: Radiologist vendors to read the exams or if your doing the exams for a specialist.
50 minutes: If your making $125 an hour as a business owner what all other expenses do you need to be paying for?
54 minutes: Fun fact about Indiana
56 - 57 minutes: Creating different protocols for different exams
57:52 - 01:00:00: 1st question
01:00:10- end of the show: 2nd question
We want to thank Jennifer again for this great information. Stay tuned we will have her back on again in the future.
She has some great information coming up with her free workshop she is offering so please sign up and tell her Rad Talk Dennis sent you.
Here is the link to register for the free workshop: https://aic-ultrasound.com/start-your-biz-workshop
And here are Jennifer’s social media links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-aic/
https://www.instagram.com/advancedimaginginc/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBpSP6v--s4xXXx2tH362ng
https://www.facebook.com/AdvancedImagingUltrasound/
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More money talk with Malone Healthcare
Welcome Back Rad Talk Nation
Episode 26 with Malone healthcare
I hope everyone had a happy Holidays, but were ready to get back to the grind of getting our listeners good quality information.
Dennis goes more in depth with Malone Healthcare and gets to answer more of your money questions.
1- 9 minutes: Bill rate paid hourly. The agency is paying the traveler money before they are getting paid.
5- 7 minutes: turning in your time card when its due is super important for the travel company to bill the hospital correctly for your hours worked.
9 - 14 minutes: When can I negotiate my salary?
14 - 15: When you should decline a job?
16 - 19 minutes: :24 to 48 hour clock once an offer is made.
19 - 28 minutes: Going over bill rates with your recruiter.
29 - 32 minutes: Why don’t we ask the hospitals for more transparency with salary?
33 - 37 minutes: recruiting companies able to pay out more money short term, and being able to put yourself back in the black over time
38 - 50 minutes: Guaranteed hours information to find out
45 minutes: Never Volunteer to go home.
50 - end of the show: GSA information can be reverse engineered.
52- 54 minutes: How do I calculate my salary using the GSA?
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Money Money Money with Malone Healthcare
Rad Talk episode 24
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Episode 4 with Malone Healthcare
Start - 2:30: Who sets the bill rates that pay the traveler and everyone?
2:30 - 5:00: Bidding on jobs
5:30 - 6:00: Dennis bidding story.
6:00 - 8:00: Who are the people that can sign off on contracts for hospitals?
8:20 - 20:00: Define a bill rate and why agencies exist.
29:00: Go to google and type in GSA per diem rates
30:00: What is the minimum you should be paid?
20:00 - end of episode: What is included in a pay package?
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Both can be one featuring Malone Healthcare
Episode 23
Welcome to Episode 3 of this Malone Healthcare travel Series
On this episode we did a lot of jumping around and also ended up having some technical issues with the episode. The content still is great, and information is super helpful.
Beginning of episode - 21 minutes: Vendors and recruiting company being one. Why?
7 - 11 minutes: More money to the traveler working with smaller company because they have a lower overhead.
8:50: Your more of a number to a bigger company
10: Even if the owner of the recruiting company and vendor doesn’t make money on recruiting side they make money on vendor side.
11 - 21 minutes: Skill checklists is the travelers time to shine. Brag on yourself for this checklist. There are a lot of different skill checklists.
12:30: Do a skills checklist every year typically
14:30: Passing grades on skill checklists
17: Vivian app compares several travel jobs and pays
21:45 - 40 minutes: Healthcare License process
22:45 - 23:10 minutes: 4 states you need to have a state specific license in for sonography.
24:38 - minutes: State licenses seem to be money grabs
26:40 - different licenses for different healthcare jobs and nursing compact.
35:00: Licensing can be expensive but reimbursed for most states within reason of price.
38:00: Ask the travel company to pay for the yearly license
40 - 51 minutes: Hiring manager questions for interview are usually via phone
41:15: Scrub color answer may surprise you. Your welcome :)
44:50: Always get the managers name who is interviewing you and how to contact them.
49:00: Do you know when the interview is going to happen?
52:00 - end of episode: minutes: What does the job descriptions look like for the recruiter when they get them?
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Let’s talk résumés and auto submittals with Malone Healthcare!
Rad talk episode 22
Rad Talk welcomes back Malone Healthcare for epsiode 2 of the series.
Recap of prior episode 21:
Beginning - 5 minutes: If you click your interested in a job then travel companies will keep reaching out to you.
7 - 8 minutes: Find a recruiter that fits you.
9- 10 minutes: Have profiles ready when you want to apply for jobs.
11 - 32 minutes: What is a hero resume look like?
32 - 38 minutes: auto-submittals versus blind submittals
39 - 48 minutes: Totem pole of a travel healthcare company. Every job title you would want to know about as a traveler.
48 minutes: Do vendors take a percentage?
48.30 minutes: Do companies take the largest part of the salary or does the traveler?
50.40 minutes: Great quote by Dennis
24 minutes: Find good references
21 minutes: Chris got great feedback from a traveler hired.
51 minutes: Question of the day!!
Side note: How many different beverages did Chris have throughout this episode?? :)
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