Is your healthcare practice as profitable as it should be?
Benchmark your profit margin, overhead ratio and revenue per practitioner — and see how much of your own week is going to admin and compliance instead of clinical work.
Takes ~3 minutes · Figures stay in your browser until you choose to share them
Profit Margin
What's left after costs
Overhead Ratio
Where overheads sit
Revenue / Practitioner
Capacity & utilisation
Owner Admin Time
What your hours cost
About this tool
Healthcare Practice Profitability
Most healthcare practice owners can tell you their billings but not their actual profitability — and even fewer can see how much of their own week is being eaten by admin and compliance rather than clinical work. Between practitioner wages, rent, practice-management software, indemnity insurance, accreditation and the ever-growing burden of AHPRA, Medicare and privacy obligations, the money that should land as profit quietly leaks across a dozen line items. The Healthcare Practice Profitability tool is a free, plain-English diagnostic for Australian medical, dental and allied health practices. You enter your own numbers and it turns them into the handful of figures that actually tell you whether your practice is as profitable as it should be — and where the leaks are.
How it works
Working entirely from figures you supply — practice type, state, number of practitioners and support staff, annual revenue, wages, and your major overhead lines (rent, software, indemnity, accounting, IT and compliance) — the tool calculates four headline measures: revenue per practitioner, overhead ratio (non-wage costs as a share of revenue), profit margin and profit before tax. It then costs your own time: you tell it how many hours a week you spend on admin and compliance versus clinical work, and it annualises that against what your clinical hour is worth, so the opportunity cost of owner admin becomes a real dollar figure. From there it assembles a back-office cost analysis, surfaces the highest-impact profitability levers for your situation, and builds a compliance checklist tailored to your discipline and state (covering the likes of AHPRA registration, Medicare and PHI obligations, NDIS where relevant, and ATO reporting). Your results are set against Valont's internal indicative estimates by practice type — these are order-of-magnitude reference points for context only, deliberately not published benchmarks, survey medians or targets. Your figures stay in your browser until you choose to share them.
Who it’s for
Owners and principals of Australian healthcare practices — GP, dental, physiotherapy, psychology, specialist, allied health, chiropractic, pharmacy and aged care — who want a clear read on profitability and how much of their week is going to back-office work instead of patients.
- Turns your own practice figures into the four measures that matter most — revenue per practitioner, overhead ratio, profit margin and profit before tax — rather than leaving you to reverse-engineer them from billings.
- Puts a dollar value on owner admin: it annualises the hours you spend on administration and compliance against the value of your clinical time, making the true cost of doing your own back office visible.
- Combines a profitability read, a back-office cost breakdown and a discipline- and state-specific compliance checklist in one pass, so financial and regulatory blind spots surface together.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the comparison figures come from — are they official industry benchmarks?
No, and the tool is deliberate about this. The comparison points are Valont's own indicative estimates by practice type — rough, order-of-magnitude reference points to give your results some context. They are not published averages, survey medians or accreditation targets, and they are labelled that way throughout. Treat them as a sense-check that tells you roughly whether a number looks high or low for your discipline, not as a standard you are required to hit. The figures that carry real weight are the profitability measures calculated from your own inputs.
How does it value the time I spend on admin and compliance?
You tell the tool how many hours a week you spend on clinical work, admin and compliance separately. It takes your admin and compliance hours, annualises them across the year, and multiplies by an hourly value derived from your revenue per practitioner — essentially, what an hour of your clinical capacity is worth. That converts your back-office hours into an annual dollar figure and feeds a lever showing roughly how much clinical revenue capacity you could free up by shifting some of that load off your desk. It is an estimate for illustration, not a precise costing.
Does this give me tax, financial or compliance advice specific to my practice?
No. It is a general-information diagnostic that helps you see your own numbers more clearly and flags the compliance areas relevant to your discipline and state — things like AHPRA registration, Medicare or private health insurance obligations, NDIS accreditation where it applies, and ATO reporting. It doesn't replace your accountant, practice adviser or the current guidance from the ATO, Fair Work or your professional college. Use it to frame better questions, then confirm anything material with a qualified adviser before acting.