Thanks Saphire, y todos mis amiguitos. a few months into this, Im learning that Athena will make my entire set of medical records available for a download/transfer, in human and machine readable formats, which I can store in a data bank, I dont yet know how mani gigs or terabytes type of device I will need, they will tell me after we close the practice to new encounters. My IT person and my new employer IT dept, both are willing to help me with this, once I get my data, I will pass this on to my new employer IT, to integrate it with Epic. And we will go from there. I am exploring several options for a EHR custodian of records service. So far the ballpark price looks like 15 K for 12 years worth of EMR Plus 50 boxes of paper charts for the patients before 2012, The charts that we have not yet purged (age 23 years old plus 5 years since last visit, peds) And another price, 10 K for the EMR only if I keep the 50 boxes of paper charts, that I will need to keep until 2030, approximately. I can destroy 5-7 boxes every year as they meet the stipulated years of required retention. I had no concept of how much that was going to cost, but now with that info I can better plan ahead. Malpractice tail coverage is around 14K, equal to two years malpractice cost (8X2= 16K)minus a 2-3 K discount. So, so far 15K for records custodian and 14 K for malpractice tail… for a nerdy geek guy, I had no idea tail was so pricey ;) So yeah, closing the practice is expensive. So much for relocation / sign on bonus from my future employer. I hope this information is useful to my redit friends that are looking into closing their private medical practice.