Scrubs to Startup, business launch for nurse entrepreneurs
No patient contact

Chart and record review, remote and document based.

Steady, remote, and entirely document based. The work is closer to legal nurse consulting than to bedside nursing, and the buyers are firms, insurers and companies rather than patients.

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Go-Live, $4,500. Every price is on this page. Two builds a month, waitlist beyond.

Chart and medical record review, by the numbers

Typical startup cost

Under $1,000

What reviewers charge

$85 to $175 an hour

Realistic time to first client

One to three months

Typical market ranges, not a promise of earnings. Your state, your market and your pricing decide the real numbers.

Before you can open

The gate is secure handling, not licensure.

Nobody will send you records until they believe those records are safe with you and the turnaround is dependable.

Business entity

You do this

An LLC. Nothing clinical to register.

Secure document handling

We do this

Encrypted intake and storage, and a retention policy in writing. This is what a compliance officer asks about first.

A confidentiality and engagement agreement

We do this

Scope, turnaround, confidentiality and what happens to records when a matter closes.

A professional site with a clear scope

We do this

What you review, what you do not, your specialties and your turnaround.

Turnaround and capacity written down

We do this

Buyers repeat with reviewers who deliver on time, not with the cheapest.

A buyer list

You do this

Firms, insurers, IME companies and utilisation review vendors.

Can you own a chart review practice in your state?

Not clinical practice, so no medical director and no professional entity requirement. The constraint is confidentiality and secure handling of records, not ownership.

Check your state, free

Pricing, published

What we build for a chart review practice.

Your track is decided by what the business actually does, not by your budget. Published scope caps and a written not-included list, every time.

Your track

4 weeks

Go-Live, Consultancy

$4,500

or 6 payments of $750

Everything an expertise business needs to be hired: credibility with your buyer, the intake and proposal flow, the pipeline and the invoicing.

Credibility architecture aimed at your buyer, not at patients
Case and client intake built for how the work arrives
Proposal and engagement-letter flow
Pipeline CRM and retainer invoicing
Work-product templates for your discipline
A walkthrough library so you can run it yourself
Published scope caps and a written not-included list
Ninety days of Rounds included
Start Go-Live, Consultancy

75 minutes

The Report

$350

$175 credits toward Go-Live within 30 days

Before you commit to a build: one session that walks your whole intended operation and tells you plainly whether a chart review practice is the right thing to open.

Licensure and model: whether you can own it, and as what
Offer and pricing, walked properly rather than guessed
The client journey, end to end
The tech stack you actually need, and what to skip
Your launch sequence, in order
One page summary and the recording within 48 hours
Book The Report

Fifty percent to book, fifty before launch, or six monthly payments at the same total. Interest free, never a discount. Every Go-Live includes ninety days of Rounds, then $179 a month if you keep it. All services and add-ons.

Questions nurses ask about a chart review practice.

Overlapping but not identical. Chart review is narrower and more repeatable: you are reading records to a defined question rather than consulting on strategy. Many nurses sell both.

Email is not fine, and one buyer's compliance review will end the relationship. Secure intake and storage are part of the build.

This is the model most compatible with shift work, because the deadlines are days rather than hours and nothing is scheduled around a patient.

Your engagement terms define what you review and what you decline. We write that boundary in rather than leaving it to a phone call.

Ready to take your first matter?

Fifteen minutes with a fellow nurse who has built nurse-led businesses, not a coach. The prices are already on this page, so the call is not a pitch.

Book the free callFree Scope Check

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