T-Bone Speaks S1Ep6 - Dental Insurance - Should You Take It or Not?

5/30/2016 10:22:15 AM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 179
Too often, in dentistry, we’re led to believe that we have to be independent and insurance-free. However, being independent and insurance-free doesn’t always mean the same thing. Recently, Gary Takacs was talking on Facebook about how his practice has gone the insurance-free route and how wonderful that is. I wanted to chime in and, after congratulating him on that accomplishment, take the opportunity to share my thoughts on why I don’t think that we all have to be insurance free. On this unorthodox episode of T-Bone Speaks, we’re doing a roundtable discussion with myself, Alan Mead of The Dental Hacks Podcast, and Garry Takacs of the Thriving Dentist Podcast Show on the topic of dental insurance. Tune in to find out how you can use insurance, not a crutch but as a springboard, to build our practice, and how to look at insurance as a positive rather than a negative. Discover what you can do in your office to make insurance less of a factor in everything that you do. Check it out below…

What You'll Learn From this Episode:

  • The most common types of dental insurance.
  • The ups and downs of dental insurance.
  • What the assignment of benefits is all about.
  • The pros and cons of the fee-for-service model.
  • Whether you should look at an insurance network as a marketing vehicle.
  • One of the biggest downfalls of insurance and how you can work around it.
  • The six elements that you need in place to be able to reduce insurance dependency of your practice.
  • How you can truly solve your profitability issues.
  • How to answer a patient call about insurance if you go outside of the network.
  • Becoming insurance independent vs insurance free.

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