MEDIAN PRACTICE REVENUE$184K↑ 2.3%
RETURN RATE VARIES BY SPECIALTY40-80%
PRACTICES TRACKING REFERRAL SOURCE17%
EARLY DROPS ARE THE SIGNAL1-2 VISITS
PRACTICES TRACKING RETURN RATE12%
MEDIAN PRACTICE REVENUE$184K↑ 2.3%
RETURN RATE VARIES BY SPECIALTY40-80%
PRACTICES TRACKING REFERRAL SOURCE17%
Vol. 01 · Issue 01 · April 2026

Your practice is a business.
Start treating it like one.

Turn your practice data into better decisions: financial, operational, marketing, communication. Built by a practicing clinician who measured everything and found out most of the profession is flying blind.

Practice architecture & ceiling 01
Patient acquisition sources 02
Patient behavior & attrition patterns 03
Practitioner productivity & capacity 04
Expense & margin analysis 05
Pricing & package economics 06
Market position & content gaps 07
Prioritized growth roadmap 08

Great clinicians, broken operators.

Most acupuncturists are exceptional at what they do clinically. They know how to problem-solve for their patients. But they were never taught business skills the way they were taught clinical skills. They build real relationships with patients and deliver real results. Then they run their practice like a hobby.

They don't know their return rate or what it should be for their practice type. They don't know where their new patients actually come from. They don't know whether their associate is productive enough to justify the overhead. They struggle to explain to a patient why they need to come back, or articulate the value of what just happened on the table. They check the bank account, and if the number is bigger than last month, they assume things are fine.

"You can't fix what you haven't measured, and you can't measure what you don't know to look for."

This platform exists to turn practice data into better decisions: financial, operational, marketing, communication, and networking. The generic advice ("improve your retention," "raise your prices," "run more ads") is usually wrong for any specific practice. What a fertility specialist should optimize is not what a sports injury clinic should optimize. The analysis has to match the architecture. The data is already inside the EHR. What's missing is someone who can interpret it through the lens of the practice it actually belongs to.

Data points that reshape how practitioners think about their practice.

Return Rate Range
40-80%
Healthy return rates vary widely by specialty and practice type. Your number should be interpreted against your structure, not a generic benchmark.
Early Drops
1-2
Patients who leave after 1-2 visits are where the signal is. Completed-plan drops are a success. Early drops are the question.
Referral Tracking
17%
Percentage of practices that capture and review patient acquisition source data in their EHR
Architecture Gap
Most practices have no framework for interpreting their numbers against their own practice structure.

Four steps from intake form to quarterly intelligence reports.

01 / INTAKE

Complete the practice intake form

A structured 5-minute questionnaire that captures your practice structure, financial snapshot, marketing presence, and goals. Free.

5 MIN · CONFIDENTIAL · NO PATIENT DATA
02 / STRATEGY CALL

Free 45-minute strategy call

We review your intake, walk through what we see from public sources, and share three to five specific observations about your practice. No obligation.

45 MIN · NO COST · VALUE-FIRST
03 / PRACTICE ANALYSIS

Full practice intelligence report

Data extraction from your EHR, three-report analysis covering financial performance, patient behavior, and market position. Delivered as a polished report with a walkthrough call.

$1,499 · DELIVERED IN 7 DAYS · ONE-TIME
04 / MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE

Ongoing monitoring & strategy

Updated reports every month with trend analysis, a 45-minute strategy call, and async access for questions between meetings.

$999/MO · 15 MIN OF YOUR TIME · MONTH-TO-MONTH

I built every system I'm selling you.

I'm Teddy Levarda, licensed acupuncturist, owner of a cash-based acupuncture clinic on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and the author of the Substack Needles, Muscles & Pain.

I built my own clinic from the ground up. Every spreadsheet, every marketing campaign, every retention system: built, tested, and refined for my own practice before I ever sold it as advice. This platform is the systematization of what actually worked.

I'm not a marketing agency. I'm not a practice management consultant with a PowerPoint deck. I'm a practicing clinician who solved these problems because I had to, and I'm now helping other practice owners skip the years of trial and error.

Licensure
L.Ac., M.S., Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM)®
Training
Pacific College of Health & Sciences
(via Tri-State College of Acupuncture)
Myopain Seminars · Dry Needling
Practice
Cash-based acupuncture clinic
Upper West Side, NYC
Publication
Needles, Muscles & Pain
3,500+ subscribers

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