About Chip Hart

As a dynamic and motivating speaker, Chip leads educational seminars and consults for pediatric professionals nationwide for organizations like the AAP, state chapter AAP programs, the MGMA, and various physician and hospital organizations around the country. Chip was a member of the CCHIT Child Health Work Group and is a member of the CDC Clinical Decision Support and Children’s Model EHR Format working groups. Chip contributes articles on practice management and health care information technology for Pediatric Coding Alert, the AAP’s SOAPM Newsletter, Medical Group Management Association, The Independent Pediatrician and more. Chip lives in Vermont with his wife and their two sons.

Specialties/
Expertise

Pediatric Practice
Child Health
Personalized Medicine
Electronic Health Records
Insurance
Compensation Packages
Behavioral Health
Independent Pediatrician

Events/Chip Hart

AAP NCE 2026

10/02/26

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) invites you to soak up the sun and sharpen your skills at the 2026 National Conference & Exhibition, happening October 2–6 in beautiful San Diego, California.

GA AAP - Pediatrics By The Sea

06/17/26

Pediatrics by the Sea® 2026

Pediatrics By the Sea is the Georgia Chapter - American Academy of Pediatrics’ annual summer CME meeting. This meeting has been held each year in the Summer for over 40 years and receives statewide and national attendance.

PCC Users' Conference

07/14/26

Join us July 14th –17th 2026, when our PCC family will convene once again in Winooski’s sister city of South Burlington, VT, for our annual Users’ Conference! The theme for this year’s event is Growing Together.

You do not need to be a PCC client to attend virtually for free.

https://www.pcc.com/uc-2026/

CT-AAP Annual Meeting

09/17/26

CT-AAP Annual Meeting
Thursday, September 17, 2026
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Hilton Garden Hotel
Wallingford, CT

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Blogs/Chip Hart

2026 - New Immunization Administration Measuring Tool

When I dig into practice productivity during a consulting gig, I focus a lot on immunizations. Now that so many of you do a decent job with E&Ms and some of you even do well at recall, vaccines have taken over as the source of the biggest money l...

June 30, 2026

1 min. Read

coding, practice management, vaccines

Vaccine Business Viability Analysis

TL;DR: It's easier to calculate your vaccine profitability (if it exists!) now. See below.

June 10, 2026

2 min. Read

coding, insurance, practice management, vaccines, aap

How much are the vaccines in your fridge worth?

#17 on the List of Things I've Always Wanted To Know But Hadn't Taken The Time To Figure Out - how much vaccine is in your fridge at any given time? And what are those vaccines worth? An interesting math problem, but a fair amount of work and require...

June 1, 2026

3 min. Read

concierge medicine, vaccines, benchmarks

Bringing Genomic Medicine to Your Pediatric Office

A few years ago, if I told you that eventually you'd be expected to order genomic testing, you would have laughed and gone back to referring patients to genetics. Not because you can't understand the testing. Because the healthcare system trained you...

May 10, 2026

2 min. Read

practice management, aap

Are Pediatric Well Visits Getting Longer?

Recently, as we explored the possibility that patients might be canceling or missing well visits at a higher rate (they aren't), followed by an examination of the rate of vaccine refusals (they are increasing rapidly), I was compelled to ask myself: ...

April 15, 2026

2 min. Read

practice management, vaccines, benchmarks

Act Like a CEO, Before Someone Does It For You

I have to break up this data nerdery with a reminder that there is a cure for universal malaise I encounter every day. I feel it, you feel it, the kids feel it. It's an emotional weight, driven by forces outside of your office. But we aren't helpless...

March 31, 2026

1 min. Read

practice management, events

Vaccine Refusal Rate Additional Data

Readers of the my previous post, where we look at the increasing rate of vaccine refusal, surely want to better understand the massive volatility of refusal rates for flu, COVID, and RSV vaccines. As I mentioned, the months with massive refusal rates...

March 22, 2026

2 min. Read

benchmarks

Impact of Anti-Vaccine Policies on Well Visits, Part 2 - Vaccine Refusals

In our previous episode, we wondered if the anti-vaccine propaganda from the present federal (and some state) administrations has had any effect on missed or canceled well visits. Conclusion? Not that we can see in terms of misses or cancellations. T...

March 21, 2026

3 min. Read

practice management, vaccines, benchmarks

Podcasts/Chip Hart

Charting the Future - A New Pediatric Podcast

practice management, podcast

December 9, 2025 Available on iTunes

I'd like to introduce Charting the Future, a new pediatric podcast featuring independent pediatricians from around the country.

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Events/Chip Hart

AAP NCE 2026

GA AAP - Pediatrics By The Sea

PCC Users' Conference

CT-AAP Annual Meeting

Blogs/Chip Hart

Podcasts/Chip Hart

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