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Credentialing with Insurances

9/16/2015 1:53:44 PM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 404
We purchased Oxford Dental Care in June of 2015. The practice was smaller and has been stagnant for many years. Our goal was obviously to come in and build the practice up as quickly as possible. While this is happening slowly but surely at first, we have run into several things along the way that we think others can learn from.

The first hurdle that we had to get over was getting credentialed with insurance companies. We are now three months in and are still working on getting credentialed with a couple of the insurance companies. As we looked at the long term picture and the number of visits that we would have, we decided that holding out for better fees at the expense of speed of credentialing was worth it.

We have been very fortunate in getting our reimbursement rates up from where they were with the previous doctor. Some of our fees are as much as 25% higher than the previous dentist.

While the process is taking longer than we expected or would have liked, we are confident that it will be worth while in the long run.

Our suggestion to anyone going through a start-up or take-over of a dental practice would be to start credentialing early!! If you have questions on the process we have gone through please feel free to contact us on our website linked above. 
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