Many practices had a significant spike in veterinary visits during the pandemic, to the point where they were stretched thin in serving their current clients’ needs and stopped taking on new clients. That trend is now reversing; several reliable veterinary data studies have shown a decline in practice visits and/or invoices over the past 12+ […]
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Dr. Karen Felsted
Dr. Felsted is a CPA as well as a veterinarian and has spent the last 20 years working as a financial and operational consultant to veterinary practices and the animal health industry. She is active in multiple veterinary organizations, has written an extensive number of articles for a wide range of veterinary publications and speaks regularly at national and international veterinary meetings. In 2011 and 2017, she was awarded the Western Veterinary Conference Practice Management Continuing Educator of the Year and in 2014, the VetPartners Distinguished Life Member Award.
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New Normal . . . or Return to the Old Normal?
by Dr. Karen Felsted | Dec 11, 2023 | Veterinary Practice - Views, Views

Are practices seeing a new normal or a return to the old normal? There seems to be a little bit of both going on right now. Prior to the pandemic, average annual revenue growth in companion animal practices was about 4%-8%, depending on the study, along with small declines in visit numbers. Many practices saw […]
read moreTales from the Front: The VetPartners 2023 Midyear Meeting
by Dr. Karen Felsted | Aug 9, 2023 | Companion Animal - Views, Views

Dr. Karen E. Felsted, CPA, MS, DVM, CVPM, CVA For those of you not familiar with VetPartners, it’s an organization of practice management advisors and consultants who work primarily or exclusively with veterinary practices. On a combined basis, these consultants and advisors work with many practices (small, large, companion animal, equine, mixed, general, specialty and […]
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