PROTOTYPE
Podiatry only, since 2013

The gold standard for podiatry practice finance.

Clean monthly books, a Stride Score for your practice and benchmarks against other podiatry practices, from a CPA firm that works with podiatrists and nobody else. Know where you stand, see what is coming, keep more of what you earn.

20 podiatry benchmarks updated quarterlyNothing typed in by hand: official connectorsAthens, Alabama, serving practices nationwide
Works with QuickBooks OnlineeClinicalWorksathenahealthNextGenTRAKnetGustoADPAvailityWaystaryour bank feed
Theo Podiatry LLC sample practiceAugust 2026 books closed
0STRIDE SCORE / 100
ArchEconomic profit
17.6%
StrideLabor efficiency
1.77x
BalanceCash runway
1.0 mo
GaitGrowth
+3.9%

One of four vitals on target. Costs are inside every podiatry range; cash covers one month of outflow against a target of two to three. See the full sample portal.

Two-minute check

Where does your practice stand?

The fastest way is to connect QuickBooks Online read-only and let the numbers come in by themselves. Or type six numbers from your last twelve months. Either way you get a Stride Score on the spot, then a free snapshot against the podiatry ranges, and if you want it, where you sit against practices your size and in your state. Nothing is stored anywhere but your browser in this prototype.

The Stride Score

Four vitals. One number a podiatrist can act on.

Every practice on Stride gets a 0 to 100 score each month, built from the closed books and named the way a podiatrist would name them. Twenty-five points each.

Arch economic profit

What the practice earns after paying its owners a market wage. Target 10% of collections, excellent at 15%. This is the return on owning the practice, not on working in it.

Stride labor efficiency

Gross profit for every dollar of labor, owners counted at market wage. Podiatry runs 2.0 to 2.5x. Below 2.0, payroll is carrying more than the collections behind it.

Balance cash runway

Months of outflow in the bank. Two to three is the target. Under one and a slow remittance cycle puts the practice on its line of credit.

Gait growth

Collections over the trailing twelve months against the twelve before. Three to eight percent is healthy; more usually means a new physician, less usually means a schedule problem.

Benchmarks

The twenty measures we hold every podiatry practice to.

Ranges come from the practices whose books we close every month, aggregated so no one can be identified, plus the small-practice bands we have used since the program began and podiatry-specific figures where they exist. Expand a group to see the range and what it means in plain language.

Cohort, not guesswork

Medians are recomputed each quarter from real closed books across the podiatry practices we serve. When your practice is on Stride it contributes in aggregate and is never shown to another client.

Podiatry-specific lines

Routine foot care, DME and orthotics, injections, imaging and in-office procedures are tracked as service lines, because that is how a podiatry practice actually makes money and where Medicare looks.

Every number traceable

Each benchmark links back to the QuickBooks lines and EHR fields behind it. If a figure looks wrong you can see why, and so can we.

How it works

Five steps, in the order that makes the money.

The 20-20 approach, the way it has run since 2013: get the foundation right, then advise, then plan tax, then manage the whole picture, and let compliance take care of itself.

1

Solid accounting foundation

QuickBooks Online coded daily, month-end closed automatically, EHR data pulled in. Clean books by the 12th, every month.

2

Impactful advisory services

Stride Score, benchmarks, a rolling forecast and the daily cash ledger, reviewed with an advisor who only sees podiatry practices.

3

Proactive tax planning

A projected liability by owner, safe-harbor tracking and scored strategies, so April is a formality rather than a surprise.

4

Integrated financial management

Practice value, sale readiness and the personal side through 20-20 Financial Services: retirement, risk, estate.

5

Effortless tax compliance

Returns, business taxes, sales tax on retail products and 1099s, filed from books that were right all year.

The client portal

Simple on the surface. Every detail one click down.

Each page opens with the number that matters and a sentence that explains it. The full statement, the payer scorecard or the month-by-month forecast is one expand away. Owners see everything, associates see their own figures, office managers see operations, never owner pay.

Overview
Stride Score67
Collections, August$119K
Cash in the bank$117K

What needs attention: cash covers 1.0 months of outflow; labor efficiency 1.77x; $36K of 2026 tax not yet paid in; 42 days from service to cash.

Benchmarks
Staff payroll
19.8%
Below, good
Labor efficiency
1.77x
Outside
Net collection rate
95.1%
Inside
Forecast and cash
12-month collections$1.58M
Lowest day$99K
Days under a week0

Move a slider: clinic days, patients per day, reimbursement, time off, a hire. The books recalculate through your own collection curve.

Tax center
Projected 2026 liability$106K
Paid in$70K
Safe harborMet

Strategies scored on saving, cost and effort: cash balance plan 71, Section 179 on the new laser 58, Augusta Rule 47. Tick one and its steps land in the action plan.

Explore the sample portal Three sample practices, three roles, any password.

Plans

Start with the foundation. Add what your practice is ready for.

Every plan includes the monthly close, financial statements and your Stride Score. Pricing shown is illustrative for this prototype.

Foundation
$795/mo

Books you can trust, a score you can read.

  • Monthly close by the 12th
  • Profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow
  • Stride Score and four vitals
  • Tax liability projection
  • Basic guides
Start with a check
Advisory Most practices
$1,495/mo

See where you stand and what is coming.

  • Everything in Foundation
  • 20 podiatry benchmarks, quarterly
  • 12-month forecast and daily cash ledger
  • Business taxes and tax distributions
  • Revenue cycle: providers, collections, denials
Book a review
Tax Strategy
$2,250/mo

Keep more of what you earn, on purpose.

  • Everything in Advisory
  • Scored tax strategies by owner
  • Dated action plan and filing calendar
  • Quarterly planning meeting
Book a review
Partner
Custom

For practices building toward a buy-in, a sale or a second location.

  • Everything in Tax Strategy
  • Valuation and sale readiness
  • Personal financial review
  • Custom dashboards: audits, ramps, openings
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Resources

Written for podiatry practices, not for accountants.

Who you work with

A firm built around one specialty.

DM

Darren McNutt, CPA

Partner. Has worked with podiatry practices since 2011 and founded 20-20 Accounting Solutions in 2013 to serve them exclusively. Builds the dashboards and closes the books himself.

DM

Dustin McNutt, CPA

Partner. Tax planning and compliance for practice owners, and the financial-management side through 20-20 Financial Services.

Podiatrists do not need a generalist who learns their business on their dime. They need someone who already knows what a good routine-foot-care denial rate looks like.

Team descriptions are drawn from 2020podiatry.com. Sample quote for the prototype.

Questions

What podiatrists ask first.

We already have a bookkeeper. What changes?

Usually the bookkeeper stays for daily entry and we take the close, the statements and the advisory layer. Where the books are being coded by the owner or the office manager, we take that over too. Either way the books are closed by the 12th and the Stride Score comes out of the closed numbers, not a draft.

Which systems do you connect to?

QuickBooks Online is required. On the clinical side we pull from eClinicalWorks, Athenahealth, NextGen, ModMed and most other podiatry EHRs through their reporting exports, plus your bank feed and payroll provider. Data moves one way, into the portal.

Who at the practice can see what?

Owners see everything. Associates see their own scorecard and their own provider figures against the practice average, never another physician\u2019s numbers. Office managers see operations: financial statements, cash ledger, revenue cycle and denials, but not owner pay, distributions or tax. Owners can change any of this in Settings.

Is the score comparable between a solo practice and a three-physician group?

Yes. Every measure is a ratio: per dollar collected, per clinic day, per physician FTE, or months of outflow. Owners are counted at a market wage so a practice that pays its owner nothing does not look artificially profitable. Cohort medians can be filtered by practice size and by state.

Can you build something specific for my practice?

That is what the Partner plan\u2019s custom dashboards are for: a Medicare TPE audit tracker, a new-associate ramp against the bonus threshold, a second-location budget against actuals. They are built from your books and retired when the situation is over.

Book a review

Twenty minutes with a CPA who only sees podiatry practices.

No cost, no obligation. In this prototype the request is kept in your browser only.

What happens in the twenty minutes

  1. We walk through your snapshot: the score, the four vitals and the measures that are outside their range.
  2. You tell us what is going on behind the numbers: the new associate, the payer that stopped paying, the lease.
  3. We say which plan fits and what the first ninety days would look like, and you decide.