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on Dental Insurance. Especially the ones that don't pay! Surround yourself with top quality specialists.You don't have to do everything. Do the procedures you enjoy. Patients today are a lot different today. We have a mobile society, Some will stay forever. You may see 3 generations. Time is our most
May 26, 2026
Retirement Planning
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deem necessary. We are FFS but file insurance. Another possibility is an in house insurance for those without insurance but it seems like a pain and I don't want to discount all the dentistry. Thoughts? I do a flat fee for non-insured patients, The problem is when you send it to insurance you have
May 21, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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scheduling. Automated insurance verification. Smarter documentation. Lower staff burnout. Faster communication. More production with fewer people. Some of that is real. Some of it is marketing. Most of it sits somewhere in the middle. The biggest mistake dentists can make right now is believing either
May 22, 2026
Software Discussions
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politics, one things that I wish would change is that insurance companies could not take money from one patient check for a prior patient refund. I think that the insurance carrier should be legally responsible for getting that money form the patient, not from taking it from new money owed
May 18, 2026
Claims Processing
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your hand in dentistry, you'll be able to maintain your tax deductions for your health insurance premiums and other professional expenses and perks... good luck! Congrats! You're still young and already have 4 mil. I would not stop working but reduce the hours. You have spent so much energy and efforts to become a dentist, why waste it? Do what you like from dentistry, or try to do charity work.
May 22, 2026
Retired and Soon to be Retired Dentist's Forum
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that requires it? If the answer is yes, you can have a problem. And here is where things get weird. You can be fully compliant with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, have a signed BAA, use an approved vendor, and still lose this case. HIPAA governs how data is handled. It does
May 27, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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all the time. Indisputable photographic evidence of BigFoot and Nessie. The Bermuda Triangle was still a thing. Mark, David: It is getting worse and worse. How long can you hold out with your silly denial? And for what? Funny Bought my wife a Mazda hybrid. Cherry red. Had to drive 3 hours to get her
May 16, 2026
Politics
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with unmotivated staff. I'd agree with the other people to consider doing the following: 1. Drop one day. Focus on working on your office, instead of at your office. This can be administration, strategy, tracking metrics, practice restructuring...or just taking a walk. 2. Start dropping insurances. Start
May 27, 2026
Partnerships and Associates
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be less staff and dropping the worst insurance company. Problem is that these type of offices probably cant make staff changes because they are already at bare minimum. They need to find ways to increase production. The FFS offices are not in this mess. They can function with fewer staff. The problem
May 22, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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have their finances including wills, trusts, insurances in good order among other things people do dad things contemplating divorce like hiding assets KNOW where all your investments are and safe from your spouse Thats it Mark! No more marriages for you! Your cut off chief. I give my wife 2/3rds of my
May 21, 2026
Personal Finance
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but still behave differently in a busy dental office with imperfect radiographs, rushed hygiene checks, insurance pressure, and patients staring at the screen wondering if that red spot means they are doomed. AI can absolutely help. It can catch things tired eyes miss. It can standardize radiographic
May 23, 2026
Case Presentation
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. They want to hook you on a subscription. In their eyes you can never have too much protection aka insurance... Most are the type of dentist who you just want your prophy and exam with a toothbrush but you are being forced into fluoride laser and irrigation... I think it sounds more like 4Q SCRP because
May 27, 2026
Computer Hardware
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amounts of patient visits makes it seem like they are working hard and making an impact. There will be tsunami of closure of offices in CA. Also now many of us will have to go back in network or accept HMO s to sustain. Insurances must be smiling at this time.
May 26, 2026
Pediatric Dentistry
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that happen to them and then turn around and treat their patients the same way. Pressure tactiques, O we take you insurance BUT, you NEED veneers, Arrestin, Zoom, etc etc etc. As a profession, we have no right to complain about ANYONE, at least until we do a bit better ourselves. Great post When you consistently get under 30% you won't even talk to salespeople if they aren't carrying lunch in their arms. (Enough for everyone, not just me)
May 28, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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We made Orthotic appliances for a TMJ patient. We typically only submit these to medical insurance, as we haven't seen Dental cover this yet. For this patient, she actually had dental coverage, but it was very low (only a $250 lifetime maximum). We told her we recommended only sending to medical
May 15, 2026
Claims Processing
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England weather...instead of if you don't like it give it 10 minutes. You'll have to wait 2 years. For all the no kings folks, may I remind you that either you take the shot or you're fired or you have medical insurance or you'll get fined. Not much a decree here keep walking Hopefully it won't
May 26, 2026
Military Dentistry
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now (this part sux). When we send the claim, it sits in queue until 8:45 pm every night when all claims are batch sent by EDS to insurance companies. If we make an error, we can easily reject the claim in EDS as long as it's before 8:45 pm. Now to the part that sux: HS1 increases the monthly price
April 30, 2026
Claims Processing
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years. We don't make it a pampering thing, staff grabs from warmer and presents it to patients after air polishing, impressions, any procedure they might need to clean their faces after. We take a few insurance plans but only with limited write-offs. Single use cotton towels are cheap and people
May 25, 2026
Marketing
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the phone. Says he needs #3 implant restored. Then he goes off on how he doesn't want to use insurance benefits for the exam and x-rays, etc. as he wants to conserve his benefits for the actual crown. He goes back and forth with my front office, finally understands exams and x-rays are non-negotiable
May 24, 2026
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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, and ortho. They have a CEREC but no pano or CBCT. Hygiene production (2025): 31% Employee compensation: 36% Estimated income before taxes: $341,200 Insurance mix: (PPO) 60/ 40 (FFS) Rent seems very high as you noted From personal experience going into affluent areas- Adding procedures that some
May 28, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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allows it to efficiently compete with large national insurers while still operating through regional organizations. The broader implications could be enormous. If dentists ultimately succeed, the litigation could potentially reshape dental insurance contracting, reimbursement negotiations, and network
May 14, 2026
Delta Dental
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joined as an enlisted to try to get into a pharmacist officer slot but didn't work out so was deployed as an enlisted, think the person wasnt even a sergeant. Imagine the dental profession getting to the point that dentists join as an army dental assistant because the health insurance is better than
May 27, 2026
School Specific Discussions
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connected to something meaningful. A hot tooth. A hard extraction. A nervous patient. A crown that did not seat. A molar endo that made you question every life decision since freshman biology. Now the stress is increasingly wrapped around the dentistry. Insurance narratives. PPO audits. Electronic
May 18, 2026
Software Discussions
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levels below the previous leadership. Its going to take decades for Iran to rebuild. The Uranium is likely under a collasped rock mountain . The Strait is more of a question about insurance than military. They cant pass through because Lloyds of London wont insure them. Iran has been rendered moot. Soon
May 26, 2026
Personal Finance
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policies on models unconnected to reality. An insurance company modified a hurricane loss data set by starting from my team's carefully collected data. Many of those modifications have no documentation and no basis in research. The company appended data taken from a different tabulation of losses
April 30, 2026
Politics
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at the time. We literally signed on with just a couple of insurance companies and had no business plan from there. Pretty pathetic now that I look back. I had a pretty good associateship at the time that put food on the table. From year one we made money and paid down our debt quickly, but I imagine
May 24, 2026
Practice Start-Up
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and is totally independent of insurance participation. Over the years, my role has naturally evolved away from heavy clinical production and increasingly toward diagnosis, comprehensive treatment planning, patient communication, and case acceptance. At this point, those may actually be my strongest
May 15, 2026
Practice Sales
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insurance verification service. We were having ongoing issues with improper data being put in our software. Anyway, we get a call from an employee, saying she is starting her own business as this business has gone to AI (she was let go and was soliciting our business for her new company). But ever
April 30, 2026
Personal Finance
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for a buildup/crown compared to other insurances/previous fees" that yes indeed that is bad. Analyze your fees based off your overhead and costs and don't compare them against other low paying insurances to make them seem worth it. In my opinion, anything below a $1000 for a buildup/crown is unacceptable
May 12, 2026
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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comprehensively? Approaching mouths in quadrants when possible? One thing I've found is that patients aren't really motivated/receptive to comprehensive treatment planning unless they come in specifically with plans to seek out that kind of treatment. With insurance maximums sitting at an average
May 14, 2026
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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potentially be additional victims. The story hit a nerve inside dentistry because almost every practice owner immediately recognizes the vulnerability. Most dental offices are small businesses built heavily on trust. A longtime employee often has access to deposits, refunds, insurance checks
May 13, 2026
Accounting / Bookkeeping
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Hello everyone. I'm doing a financial analysis on Cigna PPOs fee schedule, and it is horrible. It's not that we're not making a lot of money. Many line items are simply bringing losses. My plan is to get out of network with them. However, I know that insurance companies can also sneak through
May 19, 2026
Ask a Dental Consultant
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hasn't been back. Oddly, his wife and mother still come to me. Moral of the story: Dropping insurance will filter out your problem patients automatically. Delta specifically has the most cost conscious patients who create issues when they have that $20 copay. This gets lost sometimes amongst the usual
May 12, 2026
Marketing
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remembered things differently than she did. He immediately stated that he had never even met the accuser. Denying ever meeting the accuser is a much stronger claim than merely denying assaulting her, and much easier to refute. After Kavanaugh made this denial, Christine Blasey-Ford no longer had
May 14, 2026
Politics
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altogether. Do that today. If it is as you say and you are 'getting Premier fees' for those Premier patients regardless of status as a DD PPO doctor, the only difference would be those pesky PPO pts will stop finding you from their insurance list and bugging you with phone calls. More likely scenario is you
May 20, 2026
Going Out of Network
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? Do all off you feel better? Do all of you concur? Had any of you considered that what you see is whats ruining the profession but its not the profession itself? The symptom and not the cause? How about seeing this as a result of the insurance lobby infiltration into government, and DSO corporates
May 13, 2026
Ethics & Professional Conduct
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certainly accepted 100% of the risks for anything clinically, every day you practice. Let the DSO handle the insurance companies. I do that of course...doesn't change all the bs they pull all the time. Here is a good story for you... In the first one I worked for, American Dental Partners...(which
May 13, 2026
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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have to go to ce on Friday now I'm speaking there as well on Friday morning on Dental PPO Insurance Control, Strategy and Negotiations. I hope to see some Townies there too, please swing by and say hi if you are there! I'll try and run by during my morning break Dang. I have a client in Yankton
May 18, 2026
CE Comments / Suggestions / Events
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of all vendors like security, marketing and website, IT, pest control, yard maintenance, dumpster, telephone, med gas, internet.....anything with a regular charge to your account. Keep a list of account #s and phone #s. Contact your insurance providers, content, building, malpractice. Ask about a tail
May 16, 2026
Practice Sales
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the reality that for a family of four, the vast majority of those expenses mentioned are going to be covered by whatever dental insurance plan they subscribe to. So $6,000 over the course of a year for professional dental services including surgery, preventative maintenance, class 2 restorations
May 21, 2026
Ethics & Professional Conduct
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and anyone in denial will be a dinosaur that gets sucked in regardless of how they feel. The owner of the company that I am building AI software for says that in the future, after I spent 15 mins explaining what I wanted done, he said that literally everything that I said will be done and completed
May 18, 2026
Dentist Websites
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, competent team gets them back for years. The biggest mistake is treating 'patient ghosting' like one problem. It is not. It is fear, cost, confusion, inconvenience, weak systems, poor handoffs, insurance frustration, and human procrastination all wearing the same Halloween costume. So yes
May 21, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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you might as well hire a dentist for $120/hour, but then I suppose that gets tricky with insurance credentialing. I guess the only way is to lock in for at least 6-12 months to lower the subscription cost. The issue is if you hire and you have a subscription with them for 6-12 months. I have
May 19, 2026
Hygiene Discussions
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. Currently on pace for 1.9 gross 1.4 collections this year. (Up 5% gross and net production YTD, up 9% collections. 11 HYG days a week. In network with DD premier, Cigna, then TPA for about 6 other insurances. 2500 active patients. Recently started not seeing new DD patients. My schedule is booked 2-3
May 15, 2026
Going Out of Network
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, etc. After a few hours the accounts were closed, but it left me wondering. What is the play here? What could they do to scam our office? My office manager said they could potentially call insurance companies and re-direct funds to go to their account. Anything else I need to watch out for? Has
May 21, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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the payment. And just like that, you lost 2 to 3 percent of money you already earned. Welcome to modern dental insurance payments. Let's clean this up, because most of the confusion comes from mixing three completely different things into one conversation. There is your fee schedule. That is what you get
May 09, 2026
Claims Processing
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a 7% bump in fee schedule moving to Careington, but I don't have much wiggle room with other insurance contracts so I was seeing if I could improve this one. I get UHC through Connection Dental. Are you saying that UHC is terminating their TPA agreement with Connection? I hope connection does not stop picking up uhc. I just turned in the paper work to join connection really only to pick up uhc medicare plans
May 16, 2026
PPOs and HMOs
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sense. The one that hides is staff time spent on stuff that doesn't generate anything. Insurance follow-ups, chasing no-shows, working the recall list. None of it shows up as a line item but it's a big chunk of what your front desk gets paid for. Worth knowing how many hours a week go to that vs
May 11, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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this was a 'Biden win for fliers.'" "We CARE about pricing! We care about competition. But if the markets say there needs to be a merger because of health issues with an airline, we HAVE to make sure we make the right choices." "History has judged the denial of the JetBlue-Spirit merger under Biden
May 02, 2026
Politics
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. Teeth do not send sworn affidavits. Water coolant is still the cheapest insurance policy in the operatory. It does three things at once. It removes frictional heat, lubricates cutting, and flushes debris so your bur cuts instead of rubbing packed dentin. Air alone does not do that job. In fact
May 10, 2026
Fixed Prosthodontics
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