The Brian Wright Show
How this Bonusing Flaw is Diminishing your Greatest Asset - Private Practice Quick Tips Edition
Feb 16, 2026
Season 9
Episode 143
Brian Wright
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If your bonus plan pays for signatures today but ignores wins tomorrow, you’re training your team to abandon your best prospects. We pull back the curtain on a costly flaw hiding in many practices: same-day-only incentives that deflate morale, raise churn, and starve the pipeline. The fix isn’t more pressure at the money moment; it’s smarter, teamwide incentives that reward consistent follow-up and real conversion over time.
We start with the anxiety every owner knows: that hollow feeling when the pending list runs dry. Then we reframe the pending list as a core business asset—inventory you can shape with thoughtful systems. You’ll hear a real-world case from a practice where treatment coordinators loved new processes yet felt helpless, because their bonus vanished the second a patient walked out without signing. We show how today’s shoppers call five offices, visit three, and need a trust-rich journey across every touchpoint, from the first phone call to the clinical handoff.
Next, we map a practical playbook for turning prospects into starts: a steady cadence of calls, texts, emails, and short personalized videos; messages that evolve from education to objection-handling; and micro-commitments that lower friction, like reserving a start date or pre-approving financing. Then we connect process to pay. Instead of isolating the treatment coordinator, we propose a shared pool that rewards overall conversion within 30 to 60 days, with a smaller kicker for same-day signatures. Reception, clinical assistants, and digital intake all share in the outcome because they shape trust long before the contract appears.
By the end, you’ll have a clear blueprint: treat the pipeline like gold, coach the team to follow through with empathy and precision, and align incentives with behaviors that actually drive starts. Ready to replace guesswork with a system that compounds wins? Subscribe for future deep dives, share this with a colleague who needs a bonus reboot, and leave a quick review to tell us the one follow-up tactic you’re adopting this week.
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