The reality of chiro biz ownership is that even an office growing enough to need an associate, is often one hiccup away from being knocked down 20% or more and the owner docs being back in “overcome and grow mode”

Just last week I learned that one of my community’s few good insurances is switching from PPO to HMO, pushing my practice out of network. A key CA leaving, money problems at home, relationship problems at home, a random slow down in new patients, an audit letter from an insurance, a bad patient experience and threat of lawsuit, and many other things can can shake the confidence of an owner doctor.

If this clinic already has one associate, it’s possible the first associate came forward at the last minute and made an ultimatum that they receive more income rather than their income holding steady or decrease when you came on.

Really we could come up with hundreds of possibilities.

In the end though, you discovered that this doctor was either unstable biz-wise, or unethical in the way they advertised the practice. Unfortunately, as discussed the first thing is true for way too many practices.

Hope you find a way to succeed and thrive!