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for. Oklahoma had a High Risk Pool for medical insurance before Obamacare. I posted about it at the time. That model was part of my Senator Dr Tom Coburn's plan for Health Insurance Reform as an alternative to Obamacare. The State of Oklahoma subsidized people that were high risk and ran the group
April 29, 2026
Politics
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have been a Dentrix user for 22 years and have finally had enough of them. Their recent change to force you to only use their bundles and credit card services and insurance clearing house is the straw that broke the camel's back. Dentrix announced they had some new change coming that may affect a few
May 05, 2026
Dentrix
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treatment. Now layer in the reality of insurance. ADA research shows a consistent pattern. Fees have increased slowly over time, but reimbursement has not kept up. In some cases it has declined relative to fees. That means the gap between what you charge and what you get paid keeps widening
May 01, 2026
PPOs and HMOs
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. Ever see industrial CNC mills where they cut into metal slabs? They usually spray oil on the drill bit I think for cooling and lubrication. I think the RBs are probably fine either way, but I figure RC Prep is a little extra insurance. On extracted teeth it's also good to see what the limits
May 21, 2026
Endodontics
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appraisal said was average for my area. My insurance , taxes and lawn care/snow is about 24K a year. Gotcha, that makes sense. So for simple numbers, if your practice was 2,000sqft, at those numbers, you would be at $36/sqft base rent with NNN's at $12/sqft for the incoming practice owner. It sounds like
May 22, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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, but haven't really done the SEO game yet. We have nothing but 5 star google reviews (ok 1 or 2 that are 4 stars). Most of our new patients are either internal referrals, google search/reviews, and from insurance websites. I imagine there are different strategies for different goals. My goals (poorly thought
May 10, 2026
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are purchasing a property as an investment and it has an income stream attached. Does that make sense? I had my building appraised in late 2024 . Came in at 1.2. I pay myself 6000/mo. My insurance ( hi in NJ) $800 and taxes are 800, property care 300, so say I net 4000. Is that a cap rate of 4%? If I
May 06, 2026
Practice Sales
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that integrate with imaging, PMS, insurance, voice documentation, referral networks, patient communication, and quality monitoring. So yes, developmental platforms like NEMO deserve attention because they are directionally aligned with where dentistry appears to be going. But until systems like
May 12, 2026
Endodontics
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people in a time of need through dental services in exchange for manipulating average Joe's into signing up for low yielding whole life insurance policies for commissions. It's strange experience to go through a paradigm shift. It had a fire that needed repairs in Greece which was a one off event
May 01, 2026
Politics
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seeing. It's weird, it isn't really my vision as it's still fully corrected, and I have great loupes, but it's like my brain can't focus in as much detail as it used to. So for me it's kind of more like how long will I be able to do work well enough to keep working? With the cost of health insurance I
May 05, 2026
Retired and Soon to be Retired Dentist's Forum
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significant. I have a rental house in town that I dislike so I would sell that one day, sell my main house and add some generated income to buy a new house. I would not sell your Porsche. Trust me. You will regret it. The price of insurance on that car is probably not too bad with 6 cars -- my third car
May 08, 2026
Retirement Planning
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to the lowest hourly paid staff. Their task is to empty the insurance benefits of that patient. State boards have rules that can be applied to individuals with a license, individuals they can actually control by risk of damage. That feeds into the problem. State boards only have control over people
May 04, 2026
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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about it from an office analytics and KPI perspective. I like tracking metrics on a weekly basis. Allows you to adapt quickly and efficiently. Only two ways to decrease overhead are to cut expenses or increase revenue. Look at doing both. Be prepared it may entail cutting down on insurances
May 14, 2026
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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just incredibly frustrating to see so much blatant corruption in our leadership, with the insurance industry, and (quite honestly) some of my local colleagues as well. Just trying to think of what works, is ethical, and sustainable. Letter of the law, spirit of the law, application of the law
May 06, 2026
Legal Issues, Malpractice, & Insurance
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wants to erase it from our memories. Obama care tripled the cost of insurance. The Democrats record on fixing healthcare blows. The democrats tried to weaponize the IRS to attack its political opponents. I say sue them. One of them is already in jail. I spent 2 days in Canada once. Honestly, I have
May 20, 2026
Personal Finance
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screwed up or what? They did say we could request the negotiation of 12 codes as part of the deal. So weird....I feel like these insurance companies are changing the rules all of the time......if there ever were any rules for them!! From what I have found, most of the time the allowable is the same
May 05, 2026
PPOs and HMOs
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finally added-like calculating pending insurance claims against remaining benefits-don't impress me, because virtually every other major software has done this out of the box for years. It took years of user requests and complaints for Curve to even acknowledge the gap. Same with the inability to set
April 30, 2026
Software Discussions
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of Medicare for all. Someone here was joking about medical bankruptcy. It's very real. My insurance was cancelled very shortly after my treatments. There were still years of follow-up. If it had come back in the interim, before the state stepped up, we would have been forced to pay fully out of pocket
April 29, 2026
Politics
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skilll, judgement, and time. If insurance companies were smart that would reimburse these at a higher rate (promoting its implementation), as I feel like it would save them money by reducing what they are paying in root canals, extractions, implants. We don't work slow, but it does take time
May 16, 2026
Bonding Products &Techniques
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? Maybe maybe not. Let's just say it would take a lot of work. Maybe akin to herding cats. I do think there is plenty of room for things like tuition, licensing, fee schedules, access to care, EFDAs, DTs, records management/electronic records, 'insurance' companies, etc to be addressed. The list above
May 28, 2026
Dental Students
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. There is no continuity of care and it is completely unproductive on the hygiene side. I would rather uptrain some dental assistants, drop an insurance and have a better running practice. Temp agency hygienists should NOT be paid more than our full time long-term hygienists. I just had someone tell me
May 01, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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year at convention a dentist in his neighborhood was in my booth at Socal convention. He asked who he could purchase from and one of the three i gave him was My buddy Dick. Doctor said, I love the guy, if he carried any insurance I would use him. I about $hit my drawers. I had a meeting with my
May 13, 2026
Legal Issues, Malpractice, & Insurance
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a cleaning are also the ones most likely will only get things covered by insurance. I have done both for new patients depending upon what I see on the films and exam. Tailor the treatment to the needs of the individual.
May 18, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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extreme. Rich people and those hedged with assets will be more happy and tell everyone that things are great- the poor and middle class will be drowned out by the media that says all is good while they figure out how to manage health insurance, daycare, and putting food on the table. Where
May 06, 2026
Personal Finance
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fees, insurance adds up fast. RV camping used to feel middle class- now even modest trips are getting expensive. Maybe. The younger generation will not be the same size of consumers as boomers. So naturally, less demand for RV's. I'm sure they can be turned to Airbnbs in the middle of nowhere
May 21, 2026
Personal Finance
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old charts with notes and finances all on the same page. It makes me nostalgic for a simpler time. Then the office entered the age of paper notes/computer billing until it transitioned to computer charting right before I purchased. So I still use paper charts for all insurance EOB's, health forms
May 09, 2026
Software Discussions
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accordingly We're of a similar mind-set. I only charge a build-up fee if I'm placing a post for an extensive build-up. No additional gold charge either. We do bill for the PA taken, if needed, for insurance purposes. Itemization drives me beyond insane. Our Vet takes wonderful care of our dogs
May 07, 2026
Laboratories
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regime. Mighty fine Oil production ya got here- shame the Straight of Hormuz flows right past us and wouldn't it be a shame if something happened to those tankers? Need insurance for that? - OK we got LLoyds of London. That's about it. Don't like it? Tuff. Guess where LLoyds of London is located
May 19, 2026
Personal Finance
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daughter recently, HIRE A FORENSIC ACCOUNTANT!! It will pay for itself. For those married BOTH SPOUSES should have access to ALL FINANCIAL RECORDS and WILLS AND TRUSTS and insurance policies. Don't be left out in the dark. It will come back to bite you Personally think most of divorce is about dirt bag
May 03, 2026
Personal Finance
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numerous pts where preventive is covered by insurance at 100% AND it doesn't count towards their yearly benefit and they still say they don't want x-rays and/or exams. How or why doesn't giving away a free exam make you care any more than someone that gets renumerated for their work? Unless
May 09, 2026
Marketing
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a revolution not all that long ago. If that autoclave injures someone after I have serviced it. Whether or not the issue is on me the owner is coming for my insurance. I won't take the chance. Esp. safety critical parts please source only from the manufacturer or their distributor. A tabletop autoclave can
May 04, 2026
Equipment
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with price and do the work yourself. This is what we have to do, and we have every right to go with someone else if we can get 95% the quality at a third of the price. I'm just so tired of this attitude from employees, vendors, manufacturers, insurance companies, etc that us dentists are here
May 06, 2026
Laboratories
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. There's always potential for growth as we have eliminated and referred procedures we no longer want to do. There are many insurances we don't accept. 400K has been on three days a week. I know to some of you it may not sound like much, but it has provided us a very good life with financial freedom
May 18, 2026
Retired and Soon to be Retired Dentist's Forum
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, and decide digitally. The building still matters, but it is no longer the growth strategy. Demographics are equally misunderstood. Dentists like simple metrics like dentist per population or household income. The reality is more complex. Income, insurance mix, age distribution, competition density
May 10, 2026
Marketing
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there is a little of the part of that Aspen dental comment in all of us? So Nick is a pompous ass that makes his own way in the best way he knows how. More power to him I guess? Takes all kinds...I'm just another idiot insurance dentist...part of the problem, its the best I could do. Hey, I did a nice
May 14, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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to go somewhere else. Jackson. Nice to run into you on DentalTown. It's been ages. Hope life is going well. Fesler Didn't you know Aspen kinda equates to Arestin? I took a bone grafting course a few years ago. General Dentist was in there for mandated CE from the state board/lawsuit/insurance
May 07, 2026
Ethics & Professional Conduct
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bid for a house in CT. Their mortgage/property tax/insurance for the property? Right around 8K/month. You're fine. Control spending. Increase payments to your debt. How many years do you have left on your mortgage? This is excellent. 12 more years on mortgage but whatever is left owing when I sell
May 24, 2026
Practice Sales
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liability insurance. It's not much more per year and gives you peace of mind. The attorneys know most of us are 1milion/3million and their damages will magically be just above the limits. Does the evidence say that infected joints are colonized with bacteria readily found in the mouth? Yes
May 14, 2026
Pharmacology
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of that...but my dentists need assistants...if you have 3 dentists you would need 3 assistants so who is answering the phone or filing insurance claims? Each dentist nets at least $500K/year. We worked shifts of 7am -1pm and 1pm to 7pm. There is only one doc in the office at a time except for the shift
May 08, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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with the specialist hurting for patients and dealing with insurance companies and not getting paid when they go to the hospital....ZERO....they get paid ZERO sometimes when they see someone in the ER.....I find that MIND BENDING......the hospital will get paid, but not the OS who actually does the work
May 19, 2026
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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in debt in order to be your own boss in a changing dental insurance world and changing corporate dentistry world. Could it be fine? Sure. But If I am betting on it and thinking about changing careers to dentistry...I would be something else that has greater flexibility and outlook. The hard part
May 03, 2026
Pediatric Dentistry
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expensive!......no costly insurance plans!......Single use!.....it would be an easy sell. All that said, I'm now the proud owner of five sensors. Which is probably why Elon is planning to put data centers in orbit. I'm all for digital now. But.... Our son is a radiologist. Although he almost never see
May 19, 2026
Politics
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expected. At first, veterinary looked like the perfect private equity target. Thousands of small clinics, steady demand, emotional spending, and mostly cash-pay. Pet owners do not argue over treatment plans the way dental patients do. A dog in distress does not wait for next year's insurance maximum
April 30, 2026
Veterinary Dentistry
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. Wasn't it like 15 years ago or so when that female Houston dentist ran over her orthodontist husband with her Mercedes because he was two timing her? I think she may have been paroled a few years ago. it seems female dentists do it out of scorn and male dentists do it for insurance money. That's my
May 14, 2026
Legal Issues, Malpractice, & Insurance
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months working. Why not go out on your own terms? Practice sale should be icing on the cake. I don't think anyone should let the practice value determine their retirement date. Plus, cutting back on hours can be a healthy thing for the practice also. Cut out the shitty insurance plans, raise fees
May 21, 2026
Retirement Planning
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, insurances, etc. Some of us pretend it hasn't - and argue wages doubled and kept up with inflation, it hasn't. Affordability crisis continues. Exactly. Trump is coming back from China without discussing chips issues. Nvidia sent their top team with Trump and there was no time to discuss Ai in his
May 15, 2026
Personal Finance
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now, is it? I'm guessing that you actually think the Fed is both Federal and a Reserve. It's neither. It's the last control lever that Trump is wresting from the hands of non US interests. Oil?- done with Iran Trade?- done with Tariffs Insurance?- done with Lloyds of London no longer in charge NATO
May 18, 2026
Personal Finance
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and still drills five days a week. Financially, he breaks stereotypes too. He takes PPOs, does some cosmetic cash cases, and still treats underserved patients. Not fee for service royalty. Not insurance factory. A hybrid animal that lives off multiple food sources. This story is flattering
May 12, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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by lacing her protein shakes with cyanide and tetrahydrozoline. They argue his motive included multiple affairs (including with Cain), financial stress, and a desire for a life without Angela, possibly fueled by a life insurance payout. Cain's testimony underscores the emotional intimacy and intensity
May 06, 2026
Dentistry In The News
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disruption risk. Ultimately though, I think past attendance patterns and reliability are far more predictive than family status alone. I have 4 full time, and one part time. I much prefer to keep people FT if we can justify it. I don't pay for health insurance so that is not really a consideration
May 06, 2026
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