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Practice Management Podcasts

24 shows and 5,030 episodes sit under Practice Management.

Dental, pharmacy, optometry, and veterinary practice management podcasts. Payroll, patient flow, valuations, audits, team systems, and the business under the license.

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A listener's guide to Practice Management podcasts

The revealing moments come when a practitioner stops discussing the craft and starts talking about the business wrapped around it: coaching, systems, patient trust, audits and the owner’s habit of becoming the bottleneck.

From practitioner to leader

EyeCode Media has the strongest insider texture here. Its measured, colleague-to-colleague conversations move from principle into workflow and patient impact. AWP: Building a Better Practice, One Pillar at a Time takes the broad view, while The Chris Wolfe Podcast: Enhancing Authenticity in Your Practice w/ Dr. David Kading brings the focus back to how a practice presents itself.

AccountingWEB serves a different profession but faces familiar management tensions. The show assumes its listeners understand accounting firms, then works patiently through technology and strategy. Software shopping season: Less sizzle, more substance is a useful counterweight to tool hype; The Progressive Firm Podcast - S2E3: Evolving without risking relationships signals the harder question of changing a firm without losing what clients value.

Systems that survive the owner

Several shows get more tactical. Bulletproof Dental Practice tackles staffing and recurring revenue through The Outsourced Team Member and Can Membership Plans Replace Insurance? Marketing Your Practice concentrates on delegation, with Ep450. How Standards Stay High Without You Being Everywhere and Ep447. The CEO Transition: How to Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Practice.

For technology and risk, Group Practice Tech is unusually specific. Start with Free Email Isn't Worth It: Why It's a Bad Idea and What To Do Instead, then move to Insurance, Documentation, and Audits - With Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey. Power Hour Optometry leans toward the economics of ownership, including Three Practices Reveal Where Your Optical Is Leaking Profit and From Doctor-Owner to Practice CEO: Building a Business That Can Grow Beyond You | Dr. Nick Lillie.

For broader owner material, move up to Small Business. For expansion and acquisition, favor Small Business Growth; for a closer focus on repeatable day-to-day execution, visit Small Business Operations.

Where to start

Choose EyeCode Media for a conversational practitioner’s perspective, AccountingWEB for firm strategy, or Group Practice Tech when compliance and technology are the immediate problem. If the owner is still involved in every decision, begin with Marketing Your Practice.

Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.

Featured shows

5 shows, described rather than listed

Each has a short write-up and a note on what it does best here.

Where to start

4 routes in, one per reader

01practice owner focused on margins, payments, and auditsStarts with The Bottom Line Pharmacy Podcast: Sykes & Company, P.A.

Covers pharmacy reconciliation, audit preparation, lease structures, and M&A in plain financial language.

02dentist trying to turn clinical skill into a simpler practiceStarts with Dentistry Made Simple with Dr. Tarun 'TBone' Agarwal

Direct on the clinician-to-leader shift, scaling without chaos, and the team and systems that make it work.

03practice owner approaching sale or successionStarts with Selling A Dental Practice With Dr. Gary DDS

Real buyer-seller negotiations, valuation edge cases, and what sellers get wrong before signing.

04practice owner with a staffing or retention problemStarts with Veterinary Business Podcast

Non-dental counterweight with HR blueprints, team utilization, KPIs, and burnout as a systems failure.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing before you listen

DIR fee

Direct and indirect remuneration—a retroactive fee clawback by pharmacy benefit managers that reduces pharmacy reimbursements after the point of sale.

DSO (dental service organization)

A company that handles non-clinical operations for one or more dental practices in exchange for a share of revenue or ownership, raising consolidation and autonomy tradeoffs for owner-dentists.

practice valuation

The process of determining a professional practice's market value, typically based on collections, EBITDA, patient volume, staff structure, and lease terms.

PBM (pharmacy benefit manager)

A third-party administrator that manages prescription drug benefits for insurers, setting reimbursement rates that directly affect independent pharmacy margins.

KPI (key performance indicator)

A measurable metric used to track practice health—common examples include revenue per patient visit, production per provider hour, and staff utilization rate.

capital vs operating lease

A capital lease transfers ownership risk to the lessee (treated as an asset and liability on the balance sheet); an operating lease keeps the asset off-balance-sheet with lower up-front commitment.