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functions, with clear accountability and measurable outcomes. The owner sets the standard. The team executes it. The office manager role is where this often breaks down. Many practices give the title to someone who is really functioning as an insurance coordinator or treatment planner - handling
May 29, 2026
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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is out again today. No emails saying what the issue is or heads up just a bunch of dead iPads and a down website! Hello. I would like some feedback from PBN users. I am looking to switch to either weave, pbn or adit. Also, is insurance verification a feature? Thanks
May 21, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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% in taxes like they always have (now even lower since the BBB tax bill passed)....gas is maybe $100 more a month for the last 2 months, thankfully it's still lower than it was in 2022, and health insurance...well, yeah, Obamacare screwed us all so I feel their pain. Edit: Why the hell does DT have different
May 13, 2026
Personal Finance
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, or insurance change inside their company. If the patient leaves your practice another DDS looks at these and has a huge amount of bills to be paid- the patient may be having some of his treatment choices based on that being a primary motivation of the dentist. I hope the above statement did not trigger
May 19, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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", and she didn't understand that if I went out of network, the patient would owe that 50%, she thought insurance would pay it all still. The combative attitudes combined with a lack of understanding or any empathy toward most issues in dentistry outside of doing physical hygiene is really
May 18, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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to "customer experience". Crap like this infuriates me. The publish rules and then don't follow those rules. This is why you cannot trust insurance reps, they don't know anything. This is also why it is pointless to file non-covered services to insurance, you just waste your time and theirs. Bill the patient
May 06, 2026
Claims Processing
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any openings for their first, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th preference - then apologize but they have to attend to something and don't call them back I am confused about what actually happened. Did he pay twice? The insurance paid and he paid as well? It is confusing, I know. In short, he paid his portion
May 06, 2026
Billing
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of not getting paid and INSURANCE is never gonna cover tissue conditioning. it seems like you never get reimbursed for this service I charge $150 for it, patient pays. I have several patients that for whatever reason love it and we change it out once a year. if its after an immediate i do it twice for free but after that we just charge the patient
May 12, 2026
Removable Prosthodontics
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bureaucratic nonsense. Those are exactly the categories that matter during malpractice litigation, insurance audits, board complaints, compliance reviews, and operational scaling. A sloppy chart is no longer just a bad habit. It is a liability. That is the deeper reality most online discussions miss
May 16, 2026
Associates Corner
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-ons incur more charges? I am interested as well. There are two packages for Adit cost varies depending on if you are doing an annual payment or month to month. Insurance verifications is the only "add on" cost as of now. Tech Bundle - $349 / mo Practice Analytics Bundle - $449 / mo add on for insurance verifications - $150 / mo *** Happy to connect and show you a demo too. Is data important or are the other features more important?
May 10, 2026
Software Discussions
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? If not much difference in selling price, I would rather have 2 more ops with comfortable size in next room than 3 ops with kind of compact size. thank you 5 ops is the sweet spot for someone to build a following then drop most if not all insurance assignment and really be able to groove. Two doc ops
May 20, 2026
Dental Office Design/ Construction
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that has insurance. Just wonder how long we can continue to put up with insurance dictating fees as costs continue to increase? I'm sooooo glad to be on my way out but I feel bad for my son who will be taking over the practice and unfortunately will have to deal with these issues. What codes did you bill
May 04, 2026
Billing
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to carve the perfect restoration with zero post-op discomfort. Whether you participate with insurance or not this person has a huge impact on your cash flow because if the patient is not writing a check, or putting the full bill on their credit card, the effectiveness of your FD's claim for payment
May 13, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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office on a virtual platform. If you prefer a live seminar, I'll be announcing dates for the east and west coast locations for 2026. Is insurance verification covered in this series? What is your recommendation on insurance verification? We currently get all info, including calling past offices
May 05, 2026
CE Comments / Suggestions / Events
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IIRC insurance doesn't cover it well. No, not temp cement. The actual crown and bridge temp material. If you don't "pump" the restoration up and down as it sets on the tooth it will lock on. And no, you didn't smear it on the tooth. You put a drop of temp CROWN material on the intaglio of the veneer
May 28, 2026
Cosmetic Dentistry
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Dentaltown just added the following course to its library: HIPAA For Dentists - Patient Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Storage, and Social Media by Evan Sampson Esq. This course will serve as an introduction into Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
May 14, 2026
Dentaltown Online CE
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and I was home by 2 PM on Friday. I'll be off work for up to 6 weeks. I have a couple of locums looking after my patients. Dealing with my disability insurance at the moment. So thankful it wasn't worse. Very thankful for the great care received from my riding buddies, Search and Rescue, BC Ambulance
May 28, 2026
Sports
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hauls in about $1/2 mil annually. MN has some of the lowest dental Medicaid fees nationally (2020). If a state's dental Medicaid is only paying out 30% or less of that of private insurance reimbursement, the private sector is almost completely disincentivized to participate w/ dental Medicaid (except
April 30, 2026
Ethical Issues
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! Thanks! Unlike general practices, perio office relies heavily on referrals from the GPs and patients' dental insurances. So the first and the most important thing you should look at is the referral sources....the number of existing referring GPs and their ages (number of years they've been in practice
May 18, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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it on her income statement. Also her insurance rates would be affected as 2nd homes and vacation homes have different insurance rates- insurance fraud. So, many ways to create some legal basis for the Cook investigation. There is no false equivalent statement made. Only a false sense of prosecutorial
May 19, 2026
Personal Finance
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restorative). The equipment is functional but aging. Only technology is digtal xrays and trios scanning. Practice uses opendental 2024 collections 1.4m 2025 collections 1.47m 2026 on track for 1.5+m 50% in network with delta and paramount. 25% no insurance, 25% OON insurance. Is 70 to 75
May 12, 2026
Practice Sales
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to dismiss. I didnt even have to be there. It lasted over a year and was dropped , which means some lawyer actually lost money on the deal. Thats kind of funny. My malpractice insurance did not even go up. ITs been a non event. Case description . I referred a guy with rotton teeth to an oral surgeon . He
May 28, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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Hi all, How do you handle A/R checks? I am still getting insurance checks made out to the selling corporation. They are no longer around. How do you handle this? Who owns the a/r? We are past the 90 days. We own it now. have you tried depositing it into your account? many times the bank will allow that, especially if "for deposit only" is stamped on the back of the check... No I haven't. I will try that. Thanks.
May 08, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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off for low fees like happens too much in the US. Regards Terry Had 86 year old teeth! That's excellent work . Fees are very good . I would be lucky to get $200 per tooth. State insurance only pays $105 Below is our 2025 fee schedule for composite restorations. Our fees are negotiated every year. 40
May 03, 2026
Cosmetic Dentistry
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me asking? Yes we are fee for service but follow the Provincial fee scale set by the New Brunswick Dental Society. Fees for 5 surface bonded composite restorations on anterior teeth cost right around $300 per and since I did 8 the fee was about $2400.00 for 4 hours of hard work!! Insurance covers 80
May 06, 2026
Cosmetic Dentistry
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If the patient has insurance, the first visit of exam and xrays is capped at $50. We do whatever is needed and write off the rest. If no insurance, we do $100 off first visit. You need to make this easy for communication on the phone and you do not want an initial financial barrier to entry. So
April 29, 2026
Front Office Discussion
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for the patient that I will reference. Content mirrors my thoughts after 52 years of private FFS practice. It might be time to write one about the Dental Insurance Industry and padded treatment plans. Haha, don't tempt me. There are things that I want to add to my book so maybe one day I write an updated
May 20, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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I've read a lot of great info about TPAs on here and have a few questions 1. If you're signed up with a TPA (e.g., Connection), are you on any insurance provider lists? I just searched myself on Aetna and didn't see my name. How would a patient find me? 2. I have read that people 'opt-out
May 04, 2026
PPOs and HMOs
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if they want that profit margin. We're doomed You must not take PPOs then. Dentists have figured out how to run lean. But we can't run lean enough to share 50% or more of our profit with a home office. No amount of supply savings or special insurance reimbursements make up for that. This is it. In dentistry
May 29, 2026
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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dentist, but I have a Prosthodontist as an associate, and an Endodontist and Periodontist who come in a few days a month. So we do have multiple specialties. I'm not sure if offering specialties makes this easier. I would suggest listening to some of those podcasts, the 'less insurance dependence
May 13, 2026
Alternatives to Dental Insurance
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in premiums for health insurance. That's before we even use it. Thanks. This was Non Emergent. I am not about to die. One of the benefits of living in a major metropolitan area. I paid 40 years into this system with no choice. I paid close to $30,000 per year for my family insurance until I hit
May 01, 2026
General Health
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, and with what escalation plan? A blanket policy is lazy. No-call dentistry is also lazy. The smart model is simple. Automate logistics. Delegate routine reinforcement. Have trained team members handle routine extraction follow-ups, hygiene reminders, scheduling, insurance questions, and basic postoperative
May 18, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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damaged. It's like your home insurance denying a claim of a coverage you have been paying for, for decades. Plus their oil super tankers haven't crossed the strait of Hormuz to export oil for 3 months, possibly much longer, and each of their ships will pay the Iran toll. Ofcourse the Saudis want the war
May 25, 2026
Personal Finance
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, workforce shortages, insurance limitations, and shrinking participation in public programs have increased reports of patients delaying care until pain becomes unbearable. Investigations into Britain's dental access crisis have documented patients attempting home dentistry or ending up in emergency
May 11, 2026
United Kingdom
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the ferrule isn't there. Hard to say I'm basing this off what I see in the stone model, lots of times you don't need to do that when you're opening the bite but if we don't have anything solid to grab onto that isn't a BU then its an insurance policy...Yeah, he'd likely spend up to another 6-8k but I would
May 19, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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Anyone else drive in a sim rig? I got one last year and it's been a blast. And the great things about it? No insurance! No tire expenses! No worry about crashing a 1M car! and I can drive any course I want in the world; whether it's cruising on the Tokyo highway system with some friends, or racing
May 19, 2026
Leisure
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recommendations, why does the title matter? I'm just not understanding these knee jerk reactions talking about the title, what exactly is the concern about the title? Kudos on the new book, Tuan. With all due respect, I still remember the 'we accept your insurance' messaging your FFS office despite being out
May 07, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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insurance as you are. I believe Dentrix does 18-24 months, but bases it on the family file's last visit. So I'd pick the ones that actually show up regularly vs the emergency care type. I typically cleaned up the list and inactivated those who have been reached out to multiple times and haven't been
May 07, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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practice, the only difference was the office we bought participated with most insurances. These practices are hard to find as a buyer so I would think that you should be able to find a private buyer. The previous owners of my practice were also pressured to sell to a DSO from their broker but they held
May 03, 2026
Practice Sales
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the financials and the second office was barely breaking even. Another doc is perpetually trying to find an associate to staff the other office. And the third one ended up just working both offices themselves but moved to a more DSO style of tx planning (every insurance imaginable, add ons like irrigation
May 21, 2026
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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in offices utilizing assistants for hygiene I also see the potential for insurance companies to start scrutinizing who's doing the 4341's more closely. It will be interesting to watch and see what happens. I guess very different than Alabama because there the assistants are actually hygienists when
May 11, 2026
Dentistry In The News
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or anything that would flag it because they weren't shady websites. It only became a legal issue when he decided to feed it to his wife. I assume they are trying to get at his malpractice insurance. Seems to me that they have a case. He used his dental license to buy the cyanide. It was delivered to his
May 06, 2026
Dentistry In The News
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and adjust! Anticipate that you and your Team are achieving some great results that get rewarded with your bonus schedule. Congrats! David Weekly Report to our clients: insurance collections patient collections adjusted production total collections insurance and patient AR Collection ratio Monthly Report
April 30, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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involved, I'd be looking to the Florida dental board for relief. While I am sure they exist, one of the only cases I have heard of where dental Eq. was stolen. We hd a case years ago that should have made the stupid criminals videos, doctor filed an insurance claim that his chairs were stolen 4
May 21, 2026
Dentistry In The News
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with most insurance companies. I was thinking of billing Local anesthesia per quad and doing 2 prophy appointments. Anyone else doing that? Thanks in advance. I would think this would be legitimate- you are not un-bundling a procedure like fillings/SRP where local is expected/inclusive.
May 01, 2026
Periodontics
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working career in dentistry. Something will break in the industry if there is no course correction ( hopefully it's the insurance cartel but likely it'll be the new grads sanity ). The Becker's Dental Review analysis of 69 U.S. dental schools in 2023 paints a very uncomfortable picture for the future
May 19, 2026
School Specific Discussions
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long time. Not worth the risk. Not by a long shot. Disgruntled employee, crazy patient, who knows who? Everything in ca is risky. I would really recommend following through with permits especially if you need change of use. And insurance would deny your claim if you ever needed to make a claim
May 02, 2026
Dental Office Design/ Construction
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photos of the delivered restorations. What they are doing is amazing and intriguing. I haven't done a case with them yet. I'm an insurance/DSO dentist, so it doesn't really work for me. As one that learned a technique similar to Tucker's that produced the same results, I have an appreciation
May 20, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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One of my front desk has been with us for three years I haven't been impressed with lately. She doesn't look put together in the mornings. She looks messy. Sometimes wear sweatpants instead of scrubs. Doesn't smile much to the patient or to other staff. Makes errors with insurance verification. Etc
May 01, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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I am a single practitioner (Owner) in a very insurance based bread and butter practice. We are very busy and produce about 1.6 mil/ year off of just bread and butter services. Crowns ( Cerec) dentures, Partials, fillings, Endo. Before you find a program or curate selected courses to put together
May 07, 2026
CE Comments / Suggestions / Events
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