RSS feedBusiness Week examines the home and office lives of couples who’ve started a businesses together:
With the right attitude, though, abetted by clearly defined roles and open lines of communication, both the company and the couple can thrive. Adrian Velasquez, 61, and Christine Krause, 48, founded Milwaukee-based Fi-Med Management in 1993, in part because they wanted to work together. Today, the $3 million company, which specializes in accounting and banking solutions for medical practices, has 45 employees. And Velasquez and Krause still relish being together all day, every day, and talking shop well into the evening. “I know it sounds too good to be true,” says Velasquez. “But working together actually keeps our relationship fresh.”
“With technology, the health care industry has found the ability to detect, diagnose, evaluate, monitor, manage, cure and even predict what ails us. In many cases, even detection would have eluded doctors just 20 or 30 years ago. But what about what ails our doctors? That’s been the million-dollar question …” 
“Doctors are skilled at healing, not accounts receivable. That has opened up a niche for entrepreneurs like Adrian Velasquez and Christine Krause…”
“Independent physicians and medical laboratories often struggle to collect payments because of complexities in the billing process. Insurance companies require different formats and amounts of information from doctors …”
