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with the rising costs of providing quality dental care. In order to avoid raising fees for all patients-including those without insurance-we have made the decision to transition out of network. What this means for you: You can still continue to receive care at our office. We will still file your claims
May 21, 2026
Delta Dental
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employment, $3500 max insurance a year, been to a few offices so they know the needs and want to fix their problems. Next would be retirees with a nice nest egg who tell me they know insurance won't cover everything, but they have the money to fix their teeth. Being friendly to me and staff and being
October 25, 2025
Patient Communication / Education
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Call ICE My front desk just lost her old Lexus. She was rear ended by a man From Mexico who had an expired license and no insurance. The police showed up and just let him drive away with an expired license and no insurance right after he slammed into a car. Ya, the last thing anyone wants is ICE
December 02, 2025
Ethical Issues
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to refuse service because they are exercising their free speech. An employee of a national brand is not exercising their free speech, they are abusing their power in an authoritarian manner. Same with cakes. Here is the court document. Denial is one of the steps. People on here seem biologically
September 16, 2025
Politics
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than last year. Cars are more expensive than last year (due to tariffs) - that most buyers are opting for a 7 yr repayment plan. I can keep going but it wont cure your denial. Even my fertilizer/weed control folks are going up significantly - and many of their clients in my neighborhood
September 07, 2025
Personal Finance
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and are not substantiated by definitive documentary evidence . Republicans made the travelers suffer. What are you talking about? No, it went on for a long time. it was only because of the Russian ship having seen the whole issue that the ship want sunk. You are completely in denial. Waiting for you
March 27, 2026
Politics
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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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use in military culture. Two acquaintances told KFile he had described the tattoo as a Nazi symbol years before his public denials. Platner said those posts were about Marine scout snipers. His own former political director called it antisemitic: "He knows damn well what it means." He didn't cover
May 29, 2026
Politics
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relatively stayed the same over the years. TDIC (The Dentists Insurance Company) isnt tied to ADA membership. Its a subsidiary of the California Dental Association (CDA), and its eligibility is based on being a member of a participating state dental association, not the ADA itself. So, if you drop your
August 20, 2025
Ask a Dental Consultant
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class I incisal chips that were only about 1mm in depth. The best part the pt was also tx planned for build ups on top of the crowns. I feel if you have to make the fee schedule work by doing questionable possibly illegal billing then drop the insurance. You can push the limits as far as you want
August 23, 2025
Billing
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Patient has an existing endo on #30 (done few years by another office out of state), existing temp fill. Crown was never done. I'm a GP btw. I recommend a bu/crn on #30. Pt proceeds and completes bu/crn tx. Insurance (Delta Dental) denies bu/crn claim multiple times. OM calls and find out why
September 08, 2025
Claims Processing
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solution-or no treatment at all. When this happens, dentists often assume the issue is cost, insurance, or motivation. But I'm not sure that's always the real problem. I sometimes think dentists and patients are looking at the same situation from two very different perspectives. The dentist sees
March 11, 2026
Case Presentation
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Capline has been great to work with for our insurance needs! Highly recommend
November 06, 2025
Patient Communication / Education
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a courtroom, yet every dentist lives with clinical risk. Malpractice insurance is the seatbelt you hope you never test. It protects your license, your savings, and your sleep. Hospitals and DSOs usually require it. Patients assume you have it. Your future self will thank you for treating it like any
September 30, 2025
Malpractice Insurance
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and perform treatment for them, I'll receive much higher production than I would for a patient with PPO insurance. But often I will do an exam, diagnose work and take time to educate the patient, only for them to request to have the work scheduled with the owner dentist instead of me. So in the end, I
November 22, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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system. The reality is far simpler. Cigna is an insurance and benefits company. Its dental operations float on a huge national network of independent dentists who participate as contractors. Despite all the activity, Cigna does not operate dental offices or employ dentists the way Delta Dental
November 25, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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appointment. If they try, they'll be prompted to call the office. Hopefully that helps! How do you get insurance information from patients that schedule online? What if the patient is on a PPO and can't come to your office. LuEllen I feel like there should be a LocalMed Ultimate Guidebook. Like
November 05, 2025
Marketing
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to see new Delta, then my first available is August 2026. what would be ways you would limit new patients? I like it I like it In your contract, you did agree to not funnel insurance patients. What is the consequence? Make insurance mad enough and they drop you from the network (oh darn). The better
November 18, 2025
Delta Dental
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in PPO plans. Denticon sits at the top of the cloud stack because it was built for scale. It centralizes insurance verification, billing, payment posting, claims, imaging, charting, online scheduling, patient messaging, and reporting. It connects every part of the business under one cloud roof. Denticon
May 21, 2026
Software Discussions
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(in her mid 50s) few months ago because I didn't offer health insurance - but I instead paid her above average RDH wage locally so she can buy a health insurance on the marketplace. She told me her monthly premium was $800 a month for her + husband + teen daughter in 2024, and it jumped to $1,200
October 02, 2025
Personal Finance
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more reliant on healthcare. When you cant remove $ from the equation, what do you do then? Obama's ACA personal mandate or whatever it was called that you had to pay a tax if you failed to have insurance fell on its face real quick and was vastly rejected by many, what's the solution? If its
July 02, 2025
Personal Finance
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haven't followed up with my partner, i'll do so now and post back. tim here is my partners take: There were some things he glossed over and assumptions he made that weren't accurate. He also talked about 're-casting' loans and 'investing' in life insurance. He mentioned the 'Human Life Value
January 15, 2026
Personal Finance
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on their hands acting like they are too busy to do srp's or prophies and they can't take their own impressions. big space= big rent. Big space = big staff Big staff and big rent means you need big volume->which typically means accepting low fees from insurances. So not a great formula to make a lot
August 21, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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. Depression. Hey there little Stuey (pats on the head), now be sure and eat all your veggies and don't forget to go potty before you go out and play! Also, the Democrats wanted to extend the subsidies that made insurance less expensive for millions of Americans. The Republicans refused to extend. You see
December 10, 2025
Politics
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that have to mail statements because, if patients get texts, they start calling and yelling about hacking and scams. I honestly think this is a regional thing. Try it all and stick with what works for your patient demographics. When we find out a patient has a balance (such as if insurance came back
March 17, 2026
Billing
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sucks! I do not really have any advice other then to contact your malpractice insurance and see what they say. And that most people really do suck! Agree with the above; contact your malpractice. They will most likely advise you to give a partial refund in exchange for the patient's signature
July 26, 2025
Legal Issues
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the heavy lifting. Bro this has me in tears I think the trend has to be for dentists as a collective to go insurance free. Eventually either the insurances will have to reimburse better or patients will be forced to pay out of pocket . At the trajectory we are one we will continue to work harder
December 02, 2025
Personal Finance
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staff you have, the more stress you have.More Patients = More Stress 1) has an employee ever said to you the terms office culture, insurance-related challenges? 2) I think you may be AI Wages are never at the top of job satisfaction surveys because I think people lie and it makes them feel better
June 15, 2025
Hygiene Discussions
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of a tooth when a dentist has asked for advice about extraction techniques. Ive extracted hundreds/thousands of teeth like this but anymore im more or a referral if the pt is not interested in a graft here. IMO its not worth the $150 that you will be paid given its an insurance pt. Way too many risk
February 05, 2026
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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a dental associate is really hard, you have to put up with so much from the owner to the patients to the co-workers, to terrible insurance nonsense that patients blame on you, to the challenges of dentistry itself, trying to do a filling in a dark sloppy wet cave that is coughing on you all day
September 30, 2025
General Discussions
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way more conservative than risking extraction and implant. I hate these fractures when the pt has no symptoms (and when they do.) They make me dislike insurance probably most. For those who have crowned them and have a track record, did they stay asymptomatic? I worry even with early conservative
June 05, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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my trios The annual fee covers updates, etc. But it also works as an insurance policy of sorts. They have covered one confirmed drop and one probable drop (that none of my employees owned up to). I called them. They checked a few things virtually. And basically overnighted me a new scanner
January 15, 2026
Equipment
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. The profile of a typical dental malpractice patient will be discussed as well as the four areas where dental malpractice insurance companies pay out the largest settlements and more. This course is an essential educational tool for any dentist who's serious about reducing his or her malpractice risk
November 24, 2025
Dentaltown Online CE
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Hey everyone, Quick question for the practice owners and OMs who are tired of the same nightmare every single morning: Your front desk opens the schedule at 8 AM. Half the patients have stale insurance info. Someone spends the next 2 hours on hold, clicking through payer portals, faxing
March 11, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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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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I have a pending malpractice case in the state of New York. Will I be able to get credentialed with Texas Medicaid/ dental insurances in Texas? Any insight into this situation is appreciated. Anyone know the answer on this ? Thanks!
June 29, 2025
Legal Issues
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it still has a couple years left. My concern is that the insurance company will require me to have a new roof for coverage (just happened with my new house and I got way screwed). The seller said I can have the insurance company evaluate the roof and if they says its needs a new roof for their insurance
June 12, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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Charges 1/2/3/7 can be changed tommorow 4/5/6 takes time to implement. Changing a software system can take months in advance. Changing a 401k provider can takes months in advance. Changing your insurance policy to a cheaper carrier takes months in advance. Changing a payroll provider takes months
August 06, 2025
Ask a Dental Consultant
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referrals mostly. Probably a large percentage of new patients are insurance driven new patients. Delta (premier) are probably a good portion of the new patients and makeup up 30% of the practice currently. I have toyed around with the idea of dropping delta and if I don't go the associate route I
February 04, 2026
Partnerships and Associates
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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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whats everyone charging per quad? in addition to their normal insurance fee. so for example lets say youre getting reimbursed 200 per quad. what fee are you adding on top of that for your laser. pewpew
September 29, 2025
Scaling & Root Planing
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Hey Townies, My new monthly DentalTown blog post: Top challenges from last month's discussions -transition ghosts, weak hires, insurance confusion, case acceptance leaks, A/R aging-with quick fixes and checklists. Read it
December 27, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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why: we will probably be able to provide health insurance to employees with the savings Just started - I was pay oh 3.3%. Crazy with all the airline cards extra fees I do not. I am FFS. I set my own fees. I jumped my fees baseline by 10% one time over the usual fee increase to compensate
July 13, 2025
Billing
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million. In October 2024 he was arrested and subsequently indicted (on November 21, 2025) on 110 charges: practicing dentistry and medicine without a license, theft by deception, insurance-fraud conspiracy, drug possession, commercial gambling, and violating the state's racketeering (RICO) laws
January 23, 2026
Legal Issues
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to rise faster than inflation. In contrast, service and physical labor remain constrained by time, location, and human limits, while facing rising costs for housing, healthcare, insurance, and compliance. This imbalance is not driven by effort or social value, but by economic structure. Jobs
January 28, 2026
Equipment, Acquisition & Practice Expansion Financing
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and occasionally some invisalign. I personally feel like I should develop a relationship with specialists who actually enjoy endo and implants so they can refer me cases or do a model of bringing in a specialist once a month to keep production in house. What's your thoughts on this? Is insurance
March 26, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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Has anyone here effectively billed a pt's medical insurance for treatment? If so , what procedures eg sleep, tmj Yes. Extractions (3rds), TMJ, Accidental Injury, Sleep Ap/Oral Appliances, Frenectomy, etc. What are the codes for tmj?
November 01, 2025
Claims Processing
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. It makes DSOs look less scary. It turns risk into a math problem. Insurance economics may be even bigger. PPO fee compression has done more to change dental behavior than almost any demographic trend. When fees flatten and costs rise, dentists need more patients, better systems, stronger case
April 27, 2026
School Specific Discussions
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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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divorce, lie like a bastard in deposition, and cancel her auto insurance should be told to the kids one day. If my daughter does not I will on my death bed Kenny you should take a breath and realize how distorted things have become for you, that your deathbed aspiration is to do something
April 22, 2026
Personal Finance
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