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

Patient advocacy, private pay and no insurer involved.

Families need someone who can sit in the room, read the chart and ask the questions they do not know to ask. It is popular, it is private pay, and it does not involve billing an insurer.

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

Patient advocacy, by the numbers

Typical startup cost

Under $2,000

What advocates charge

$85 to $250 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

Trust and boundaries, in writing.

Families hire fast and emotionally. The paperwork protects both of you when the case gets hard.

Business entity

You do this

An LLC. Nothing clinical to register in most states.

Professional liability cover

You do this

Advocacy cover, not employer clinical cover.

A written services agreement

We do this

Scope, hourly rate, what you do not do, and how the engagement ends.

Authorisation and release handling

We do this

Written permission to access records and speak with providers, handled properly.

A site families can understand under stress

We do this

Plain language, clear price, obvious next step. No jargon and no funnel.

A referral network

You do this

Elder law attorneys, care homes, hospices and social workers. We build the outreach materials.

Can you own a patient advocacy practice in your state?

Advocacy is not clinical practice, so corporate practice rules generally do not reach it and no medical director is required. Where advocates get into difficulty is drifting from advocating into advising clinically, which is a scope question your contract should settle.

Check your state, free

Pricing, published

What we build for a patient advocacy 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 patient advocacy 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 patient advocacy practice.

No state requires one. Board certification exists and some families look for it, but experience navigating systems is what actually gets results.

You are usually advocating, not treating. The risk is drift, and the fix is a contract that states what you do and do not do, plus knowing when to refer.

This model exists precisely because they will, when the alternative is navigating a hospital alone. Pricing clearly and early is what makes it work.

Referral partners, not advertising. Elder law attorneys and discharge planners send the majority of early cases, which is why outreach material is part of the build.

Ready to take your first family as a client?

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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