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it is to be OON with them, as most of my Aetna patients have very good OON benefits. The only ones that have low reimbursement are the Medicare and standard FEDVIP plans, and we have talked to those patients already and they are considering other insurances now that it is open enrollment. Keep in mind
November 21, 2025
PPOs and HMOs
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that doesn't get talked about enough, even though it directly affects profitability. This is what we are having problems with... the insurance companies (EVEN THE ONES WE ARE IN NETWORK WITH) make it ridiculously difficult to get the check and not the virtual credit card. This just happened yesterday
February 15, 2026
Accounting / Bookkeeping
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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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is changing!! Its 100% insurance driven and the patients are awful (not grateful for everything you do)! My dad was a dentist and it is totally different from his time! I think your generation is retiring just at the right time! No one is looking out for the dentist, tell your kids to stay away! I
December 03, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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. And a self starter. And great communication skills. And responsible. Bottom line is the days of 20 dollar and hour people like this dont exist anymore and how could you with inflation. Add in retirement plan contributions and health insurance a couple weeks pto and a front desk employee is north of 65k
March 11, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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to the ideal patient: phrases like Premium Dental Experience or Private Insurance and Self-Pay Welcome can help dissuade the wrong audience. 2. SEO Is a Long GameBut the Right Game Yes, DSOs often dominate here by brute force. But you can compete withlocalized, strategic SEO: Buildhyperlocal content(blogs
May 29, 2025
Marketing
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Im wondering the best way to code for a kid with a past SSC that requires replacement due to occlusal wear. My thought would be (D2980 Crown repair by report) but I wanted to check with you all. Thanks! What does the specific insurance state regarding replacement? I still call it what it is, which
June 11, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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months, leaving more than one-third without any dental visit in a year. Financial barriers, absence of insurance, logistical hurdles in access, or simple inertia all play their part. Moreover, the program faces evolving challenges. Nearly half (about 49 percent) of requests for 'complex' dental
October 03, 2025
Canada
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My lead FD just gave her 2 weeks notice. She has been with us for 10 years, but said she was burned out with dentistry and dealing with difficult parents. I was wondering if anyone has had success with any AI or remote employees for FD duties? This could be for insurance verification, scheduling
September 11, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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insurances or do incentive programs, they were happy with the money we were producing. Since then they have let go several staff members including the person who solely does our collections... then proceeded to tell us that we now have a collections problem that needs to be fixed but have given
July 23, 2025
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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/guidance on this. Pediatric offices around me that take his insurance are mostly crappy mills staffed by general dentists anyway, so I would like to treat this patient in-office if feasible Mmmm, let see. I guess my first question for the parents would be if there is a "treatment coordinator" from
January 27, 2026
Pediatric Dentistry
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to wait for the primary to submit the secondary. Eventually on some of those over payments, the insurance companies may figure it out and request you return the excess. I don't file secondary claims for patients. They can do it themselves. Too much trouble. When I have an overpayment from an issurance
April 09, 2026
Claims Processing
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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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. The standard worst right now is hearing a patient purchased dental insurance and they are ready to get their work done. I like the ones who deny sugary drinks but they literally have a Mountain Dew in their hands Or discretely smoke outside the building before coming in for ext then cant seem to fathom
July 29, 2025
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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, damaging morale, trust, and stability. It also connects turnover to bigger structural changes in dentistry. Fewer new graduates are going straight into ownership because the risks feel higher than ever. Overhead is up, student debt is crushing, insurance is more complex, staffing is scarce
February 07, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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, and necessary dental care second. The problem is with your brand/image. You are not alone, this is a problem for many dental offices. The answer lies in adjusting your brand/image and then downstream of that making changes to your marketing, insurance participation, and patient intake to reflect
November 13, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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processing company. From an ease standpoint, it is much easier to just find a new e-clams company Anyone have recommendations for another company that we can use to send insurance claims electronically through Dentrix?? Get rid of dentrix is the best answer, but if you aren't going to do that then use HS
August 28, 2025
Claims Processing
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about what she wants, just work with the patient. Technically true but as long as the child is under the parent's insurance the parent will feel he/she should have a say in things. And the parent will likely ultimately find out what treatment was rendered. Proceeding this way is asking for trouble
August 31, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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. Are they also providing: Annual HIPAA risk assessment HIPAA Management Plan Cyberliability insurance Policies and procedures manual Patch management Real time network monitoring Encryption Encrypted email Application whitelisting Staff training etc.? Hope this helps. HIPAA risk assessment exercise
September 02, 2025
Computer Maintenance
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Im in the market for a new #2 sensor, Im getting emails from Vakker Dental, they have a new #2 I sensor for $1700, with tech support to install/troubleshoot. Cant find many reviews. All of us are getting squeezed with higher costs but the same insurance compensation, so cutting costs anywhere
September 17, 2025
Equipment
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of the dentures. I'm not contracted with insurance. Also, if someone is coming in for adjustments a lot, don't be afraid to tell them that they won't be happy without implants. In conversations with dentists I work with, the general consensus is 5 post op appointments rather than months. They also insist their patients adhere to a yearly recall in order to continue no-cost adjustments if they needed less than 5 after initial delivery.
August 11, 2025
Removable Prosthodontics
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, and occupancy expenses in their checking account. The reasoning is that a short-term disability would be the worst (well not the worst) thing a practice would have. This way you have one month of cash and likely followed by one month worth of A/R to come in to float the practice until the insurance kicks in. I'm all for keeping more than that, but I would move the excess into a money market that is earning some interest.
July 10, 2025
Accounting / Bookkeeping
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All the parts you left out ARE insane...VDO is what it's all about...the vertical dimension of occlusion...then lip line and all the the other BS that the full arch people are dealing with when they get 50k for a case...us insurance dentists get a couple a hundred bucks after we pay you...the thing
January 12, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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instantly turn every dental student in America against insurance companies and get them to start asking where the rest of their money went . (apologies if this is in the wrong forum, it kind of transcends multiple topics). Great idea! Could never understand why my school was not in-network
December 12, 2025
PPOs and HMOs
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there? How many Hygienists? It says military patient base. Is the 50% of revenue from PPO's/insurance all Tricaire and retiree fedvip plans with low fees? Gives us more details.
March 05, 2026
Practice Sales
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to make a new denture for someone who has worn the same one for decades. My lab said they can scan the denture, return it the next day, and return the duplicate two or 3 days later. I've done it once. Pt had new insurance and wanted to capitalize on a new upper. I had them duplicate the wear and she was very satisfied and I never saw her for an adjustment. So everyone was happy. Obviously a small sample size of n=1.
March 28, 2026
Removable Prosthodontics
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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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dental practices. Some don't know all the practices that exist. There are small communities that still behave like a small town, like certain churches spread info like a small town would amongst their attendees. On the FFS-insurance continuum, we are a little more ffs than the rest, not taking delta
August 19, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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In a few weeks I am adding my first Associate in a Fee for Service office. This will hopefully lead to a partnership. He is a new grad and just received his License. I know I need to get him "Credentialed" with insurance companies so that he can Bill out of Network. He will only be working
September 24, 2025
PPOs and HMOs
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-immigration. I thought it was JUST Americans who got fed up with paying for and having bennies taken from ACTUAL fellow citizens. Weird, who knew OTHER folks are stingy with free flowing money for NON citizens. Or where you made up a pretend career of selling 'annuities' because saying life insurance
September 13, 2025
Politics
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procedure. It's tough to live on 25% of a $55 medicaid composite. Now if that dentist works at a FFS office or a higher end insurance (selective plans), they can make a good living doing bread and butter restorative. Like I said I don't know any dentists who pull 0 teeth, but probably pull a few, mostly
September 14, 2025
Associates Corner
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to do'. Rudeness and insensitivity is so yesterday. ha, forgot about that search engine here I come...lol This is the atmosphere they've created for 9 years and now they're crying foul 'When I grow up I want to be an insurance salesman' said no one ever I bet your family still tells people that you
September 10, 2025
Politics
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. This is for the server-based version, though, so I'm not sure if the cloud-based one has additional fees. Front desk-know how to post insurance checks, reconcile, balance in PMS. You will learn your fee schedules, EOBs, etc. This is critical. The new practice owner program at Prosperident is good. Dental
September 09, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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I know some doctors trust their apex locator and skip working length x-ray parts. To me sometimes, when they are taking x-rays, the file moves which annoys me. Also, insurance wise, it is mandatory to take WL x-ray? Lastly, stand of care wise, working length x-ray is mandatory? I am still learning
October 25, 2025
Endodontics
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an impression for a partial.... We made it... The patient and insurance both paid, and the patient never returned even after 6 or more calls.... That was 25-30 years ago.... I assume if she went somewhere else for treatment we would have heard from the dentist about the insurance benefits... I agree
October 18, 2025
Legal Issues
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to address you as the boss while the former owner is still there. One of the main benefits to having the previous owner around is for him to see patients who have insurances you are not yet credentialed with(especially if there are no OON benefits). Also, if you both have a solid work relationship, he may
June 15, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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A temp agency assigned an RDH who approached my manager about having her come back as 1099 and bypass the agency. She does not have her own malpractice insurance. What issues can arise with having her come in as an independent contractor? Thanks! If you're in California, the Tax Bureau will come
July 19, 2025
Hygiene Discussions
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front desk. I had to intervene, calm him, and again offered him a refund and dismissal from the practice. He apologized and left. The reviews: He then posted a very damaging review accusing my office of insurance/billing fraud. I responded to that review publicly in a professional manner. Minutes after
October 30, 2025
Social Media
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consistent with the OP's question (communication following the extraction of an upper molar) than the one he posted. Dumb question: Who's paying you for this? the pt? dental ins? medical ins? the previous dentist ? Are you in network with dental or medical? I love all the cases you post! The patient paid me around $7,000 I think. Dental insurance won't pay for this. I am not in-network with medical insurance.
December 10, 2025
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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others have a different experience, but I have never heard of just getting 80% of your UCR. If you are in-network you have a contracted rate. You can literally request the fee schedule from the insurance before you go in network and see what the fees are. IF you are out of network you have
March 18, 2026
PPOs and HMOs
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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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entire adult life in clinical dentistry, Since your reply I am looking into remote dental jobs, teaching, insurance claims, treatment coordinating, or something non-clinical. You are absolutely right though - the physical and mental toll in dentistry is very real, especially for assistants. I think
May 28, 2026
Dental Assistants
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. Get a quote on what your insurance premium might be. My brother would like to get a Tesla, given he is a single male he can't afford to insure it. Tesla cars are very costly to insure. Yes, insurance is high on Tesla. I pay about $150 a month for my 2 Porsches with high deductible, I dont drive a lot
June 02, 2025
Automobiles
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stuck. Lets talk about a smarter way forward one that bringsprofit, peace, and flexibilityback to the center of your business. The Problem Isnt That Youre Not Producing. Itswhatyoure producing. When your entire day is filled with low-margin procedures, insurance wrangling, and patients who think
July 23, 2025
Marketing
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Typical old dentist mentality....I better be booked to the gills rather then looking at fees and overhead and understanding if I cut back on insurance participation, charge more, need less staff, I can even be more profitable potentially and not have to work weekends.....as they say you can take
July 26, 2025
Ask a Dental Consultant
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, poorest rich man in America, the worlds tallest dwarf. Cost of living is just wildly different in different areas of the country. My home insurance is now $15K a year, because Ca had lots of fires in the last 10 years. My property taxes would be $40K a year if I bought my house today. If I take my
June 19, 2025
Personal Finance
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what 240k total package means, but 240k is way to much for a front desk position in dental. It also takes away some money from you that you take as a distribution and is taxed less then your w-2 income. Another thing to consider is when having a family insurance costs alot if your wifes company
April 28, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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in Denver. I was booked through car too. I don't think they have coverage for issues with the airlines. Csr yes, they do. you need the letter from carrier about delay to file a claim. Not sure you can double dip if you are compensated by the airline. no, you file in sequence depending on denials Edit
September 23, 2025
Retirement Planning
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of hatred was directed at the Roma community, an identifiable group under the law. R. v. Zundel 1992 Ernst Zundel was charged under a different section (Section 181) for publishing Holocaust denial material. While not directly under 319(2), the case is often discussed
August 10, 2025
Politics
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" compiled for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday in 2003 was officially released in September 2025 by the , confirming its existence after months of denial from the White House. Wikipedia +1 Here is what happened regarding the letter and the book: Content of the Letter : The letter features a typewritten
February 27, 2026
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