BERNING & AFFILIATES, INC.
NAPLES, FLORIDA

It’s time to advance your practice! The sooner you start the sooner you’ll move forward accomplishing your goals. We make the starting and doing easier for you! We have assembled great materials, videos, forms and much more. Check out the variety and wealth of knowledge you have at your finger tips in our Store. Time to get going and move forward! Randall Berning is a health care attorney, consultant, speaker, author, eduator and President of Berning & Affiliates, Inc. He has provided dentists and dental specialists with publications and specific practice plans to implement vision, practice growth, profitability and practice transition for more than 30 years. Mr. Berning is the co-author of two ADA publications Associateships and Valuing A Practice, the co-author of AAO materials on valuation and practice financing and the Editor and Publisher of ■ Mr. Berning is licensed to practice law in Illinois and the District of Columbia. Before entering private practice, he served as an Illinois Assistant Attorney General. He has concentrated his practice on legal, financial and practice management issues affecting dentists, dental schools, and health care providers. He is experienced in business and transactional matters, mergers, acquisitions, contract negotiations, planning for practice transition, succession and expansion. Mr. Berning received his Master of Laws in Health Law (LL.M.) from Loyola University of Chicago, School of Law in 1989. Among many activities, he served as a Trustee Advisor for the America’s Fund for Dental Health (1994-1995) and as a member of the American Dental Association (ADA) Blue Ribbon Editorial Advisory Panel. Mr. Berning participated in the American Association of Orthodontists’ Ethics Video (2000). Mr. Berning served as a member of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, Department of Health Human Services, NIH (1994-1998). ■ Mr. Berning is President of Berning & Affiliates, Inc. The firm maintains its national consulting offices in Naples, Florida. Since 1979 Mr. Berning and the firm have provided strategy and implementation for practice transition, vision building, strategic planning and professional services marketing for dentists and healthcare providers, dental schools and companies. He served as a Consultant to the ADA’s Council on Dental Practice (1987 – 2007). (1989, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 & 2013). Mr. Berning was a contributing author to the California Dental Association’s publication A Guide for New Dental Practitioners (1997). He was the lead author of Volume VII of the C.V. Mosby Company’s Dental Practice Management series, entitled, Publications, Advisories, and Special Reports, all of which are available at the webstore on this website. The mission of the materials is to increase the practice and personal security of doctors by providing timely expert level information. Helping Dentists Make Sound Decisions for Since 1980! “Thank you very much for your guidance and help. I am grateful for your kindness and support!” “Randy, I feel lucky to have crossed paths with you and I know our practice is better because of your influence. Thanks for all your help with our practice planning and implementation. I’m looking forward to furthering with you the transition work with my associate and developing my partnership with him. I am also excited about exploring developing a multi-discipline approach to care by incorporating orthodontics.” John DeLorme DDS, South OC Pediatric Dental Group, Mission Viejo CA “We signed the final documents! You should know that the one thing that held this together was the process you designed to instill trust in you as an unbiased advisor and the trust that Lindsay and I have in each other. Talking through the terms and pointing out fairness and as our primary “objective” to create long term equality made Lindsay and I feel that no matter what each of our attorneys advised, we could count on the fact that the terms we agreed upon were “ours”. We owned them as our standard for the other tangental decisions. And you can bet that your comments about our attorneys wanting to change everything, is exactly right. It was a battle of experienced lawyers and legally less informed clients trying to stand up for our previous decisions. We both thank you for your help and guidance.” “We had the opportunity to be guided by Randy in our practice transition. He set the structure and guided us as we reached an equitable practice relationship. We are now several years into our relationship and have found it very satisfactory. We just had Randy speak to our Monroe County Dental Society and his presentation was extremely informative for practice owners and newer doctors, instructing on a myriad of subjects. His uniquely casual style allowed for lively discussions on topics from practice transitions to practice building. If you are thinking transition and succession he is a great choice.” “We’re two years into our partnership that you helped us with and we’re doing great! I’m feeling great and the practice is doing very well. You can let my colleagues know that!” “Excellent result! The transition of my practice is complete! After being in practice many years and building a larger practice, it was time to prepare for transition. When I asked local colleagues for a recommendation of a transition specialist, I was given the name of Randall Berning. At each step I was provided with the assistance needed to accomplish very specific goals with some unusual aspects. I am very satisfied and recommend him highly.” “Randy is one of the most highly respected people in the Practice Transition area and he has authored a number of articles as well as much of the material in the AAO’s Practice Transition manual and Practice Alternatives manual. His expertise lies in evaluating all of the data pertaining to a practice, plus the objective and subjective goals of both of the involved parties and coming up with a game plan that makes it work for everyone concerned. Basically he becomes the bridge between the two parties in the transition process. His approach is intended to be a very non-threatening way of beginning the process which ultimately results in arriving at an agreement that makes all parties winners. Applying his approach helped me transition my practice.”