Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 24, 2000
DOUGLAS P. BADERTSCHER, serves as COO of Integrated Orthopaedics, Inc.
He joined the company in May 1999. Mr. Badertscher has more than 19
years of experience in providing financial, business and practice
management services to hospitals, physician groups and individual
physicians. He is recognized as a visionary in planning and developing
financial instruments to assist physicians and physician groups in such
areas as real estate, sale leaseback arrangements, discount insurance
funding, capital and receivable financing, physician compensation,
physician buy-in and buy-out arrangements, physician succession
arrangements and practice merger and acquisitions. Mr. Badertscher has
served as a consolidation and acquisition consultant to leading
hospitals, PPMCs, physician groups, IPAs and MSOs. Prior to IOI, he was
president and COO of Pendulum Practice Management Company, where he co-
founded the second-generation affiliation model, which is being widely
accepted by both physicians and Wall Street as the model for the future
of physician consolidation. Prior to joining Pendulum, Mr. Badertscher
was the president and CEO of Medical Transition Resources, St. Louis,
Missouri, which provided consulting services regarding physician merger
and acquisitions and PPMC, IPA and MSO consolidation. He has had 14
years of experience in the financial industry as the manager of New
York-based companies Equitable and Mutual of New York. Mr. Badertscher
was educated at Ouachita Baptist University and Williams Baptist College
where he studied psychology and sociology. Profile
Mr. Badertscher: The company was founded in 1986 as Doctor's
Rehabilitation Corporation of America, which was mainly a
