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collect, credit card reversal, insurance company screwed you, something).....whatever the reason it is YOUR FAULT because you allowed it to happen. In Dentrix Office Manager (the tab that looks like a brown office chair) you can run an Analysis Summary for the month. It will have your production
June 20, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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to split however the practice decides-equal shares, tenure-weighted, role-based, or any pre-agreed method. By getting staff input on designing the game upfront, they take ownership of the rules right away, stay responsible from the start, and remain focused through the insurance-rush period. Transparency and team buy-in make it work smoothly year after year.
December 26, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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, internet, phones, insurance. Incidentals count too. Stamps tip did help. We still send out about 15 to 20 mails every day. Saving 20 cents each that's what 3-4 dollars a day savings. You can cut a few corners and see the change in a few dollars but if you want to change a meaningful percentage then you
January 07, 2026
Ask a Dental Consultant
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insurance. Here's how it happened: Bausch and Lomb acquired the U.S./Canada rights in December 2019. Instead of applying for OTC status in the U.S., the company pursued prescription approval, allowing greater pricing power via patent protection and limited competition. By classifying Miebo
November 04, 2025
Malpractice Insurance
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so much, but having my Trios operating smoothly is so important to my day-to-day that I've just paid the annual fee and moved on. I forgot to add that mine is the wired version I had the free first year, have not paid the last 2 years. I am not one to ever pay for insurance on things though. i
February 04, 2026
Digital Impressions
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Views: 546 | Replies: 14
teeth. I was asking the question in terms of how to bill the insurance. flex partial. hope it works out! To my knowledge a code hasn't been added for cusil gaskets, is there one I don't know about? Is flex partial still the best code to use? correct not flexible made of acrylic like regular denture
October 30, 2025
Removable Prosthodontics
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: expand, build a new building, and hire associate OR start dropping insurances to reduce patient load and hopefully get more profitable. I don't like plateauing and I don't like being stagnant. What experiences have you all had when encountering this issue? I feel like its inevitable. Is expanding
April 23, 2026
Equipment, Acquisition & Practice Expansion Financing
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with conditions such as osteoporosis, often achieve the same success rates as younger adults. The key factors are bone density, gum health, and medical clearance. Some insurance providers even extend partial coverage for seniors, though policies vary. Dentures vs. dental implants for seniors Dental
April 10, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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in illegal referral arrangements. The core accusation is straightforward: patients, many of them vulnerable or covered by public insurance, were steered toward specific dental offices or treatment centers in exchange for financial incentives. These incentives were disguised through marketing agreements
March 30, 2026
Legal Issues
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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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like the one who went bankrupt while a poster boy of implant makers. Scott does everything you can imagine and good at all of them. Thats what makes the difference between him and the rest of us. No, my conclusion, is that DSO is not to blame, insurance is not to blame, ADA is not to blame
August 06, 2025
Dental Students
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take my insurance". Supercuts/Sportlcips never price gouged tho. Can dental chains employ those dentists who can do a very quality job? My guess is yes, eventually they will be able to recruit them (student debt, higher costs of running business) I wouldn't think to much into it. Corp pharmacies
October 05, 2025
Dental Students
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in and helped with the phone calls, but could never really pick up proper insurance verification (lots of mistakes) and hence why I am thinking of replacing him first. I'm not sure if I am overstaffed in hygiene, I don't think we are. We have been booked in hygiene, which is why the next hygienist is being
October 27, 2025
Staff Management Issues
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X-rays. So, I know the distal obturation is short. I'm far from an Endo, but often people say 'just pull it' but I say I'll try a root canal and follow-up, but he cancelled his follow-ups and said the 'tooth feels great' and then cancelled his periodic exam in February due to losing his insurance
September 18, 2025
Legal Issues
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been an accident with no injuries but youd like someone to come out. Cop comes out and tells the wife to just exchange insurance info and doesnt want to write a report up and also says it BARELY looks like you have any damage anyway. So she gets the kids ID and plate but DOESNT get his insurance card
November 11, 2025
Politics
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Views: 2264 | Replies: 42
on time and get work done even if insurance isn't paying. Has anyone else seen this lately? Our hygiene schedule is doing ok at least. But the operative side is almost empty. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the economy or anticipations about the economy? We don't have new staff
November 14, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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, that trend is scary. Add in the probable health insurance mess and the crunch on consumers continue to move up the income spectrum. Add in today's UE rate at a 4 yr high. The U6 is at 8.7% - it was at 15% at the GFC as a reference point. Worst job losses in 5 years. The gig economy is full. Many who
December 17, 2025
Personal Finance
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at time of signup. I had to hire an eagle soft trainer to come in and help me figure this out. It's still very fuzzy in my brain on how it works. We basically divided up the plan fee so each procedure had a discounted value. The plan is reflected in eaglesoft as an insurance plan, then we enter
February 24, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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and materials. In short, my boss would have to be an absolute fool to put up with my shenanigans. Also, 600k after taxes are taken out. If I had all paid federal holidays, no weekends, paid vacation, matching retirement, pension,, great PPO health insurance offered to me, FSA, paid disability/etc
March 05, 2026
Future Planning General Discussions
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Views: 4060 | Replies: 242
When prices went up substantially it became obvious that they may come down but definitely not back to where they were. Many industries I think found out that there was no negative as consumers still were buying their products. Dentistry is different of course if insurance companies are the ones
April 17, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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leaving the practice. The case, still active in state and federal court, now includes disputes over whether Mentons $4M insurance policy covers the claims, as it may exclude intentional or criminal acts. The incident is part of a disturbing pattern in Howard County, where other healthcare
June 13, 2025
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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is that we are staying here for a month and gives her time to heal the finger and take it easier before we have to move stuff on trains etc. Funny, I bought travel insurance and overseas health insurance thinking that I would never need to use it and here I am....although it is dirt cheap here. 67 euros
June 07, 2025
CE Comments / Suggestions / Events
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if they had no insurance (what I give for my membership plan). If they had dental insurance they would get zero discount. They are already getting a 20-30% discount since I am most likely in network. Big case on a dentist? Here's a Prostho referal OK let's flip this. What if you are a general dentist
August 24, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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around these insurance tricks. I had back surgery last week. After receiving Versed and feeling loopy, a new guy in scrubs shows up with an Ipad. He was he was a surgery assistant, and said that Dr. X wants him to be assist in my back surgery. He is OON and his fee is 350 dollars. I was ready
June 18, 2025
PPOs and HMOs
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of the earth Medicaid child. Maybe I was just lucky. Who knows. But the kid's family members and their friends mostly had jobs and PPO insurance. The parents stayed for exams after they saw how their kids were treated and referred their friends and many of those had PPOs and some actually paid cash
August 07, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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not need to be addressed. Patient maxed out dental insurance last year after I completed a crown prep. She disappeared and came back a year later for crown #21 to be cemented. As you can imagine, her conditioned has worsened. Despite recommending further treatment, her parents have not scheduled her
July 15, 2025
Ethical Issues
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a little busy. The good part about that is you have an opportunity to see a bunch of cases being worked up. Enjoy and start injecting! Any luck getting insurance to pay? I know Im across the river from you and in a different area but I felt like the level one and two AAFE courses were a waste for me. I
July 19, 2025
Botox & Dermal Fillers
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1. An associate dentist produces $1,000 in Class 2 composites. The PPO requires an adjustment of $24 so the total adjusted production is $976. The associate is paid 33% of $976. 2. An associate dentist produces $1,000 in Class 2 composites. The patient has no insurance and pays with a credit card
December 24, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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more. And then there are people playing the narrative that patients choose the office because it's beautiful and looks like a pottery barn advertisement. But the winds are blowing change. Crappy fees from insurance and a finite number of patients willing to pay ffs or out of network, soonet or later
February 05, 2026
Practice Sales
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while trying to finish a crown prep, calm down a hygiene patient, and explain for the thousandth time that insurance is not a treatment plan. The organism getting all the attention is Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII, better known as TMVII. It is not a virus. It is not bacteria. It is not some
April 28, 2026
General Health
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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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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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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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in the USA where insurance caps our income for the most part. take the money you own in dentistry and buy stocks and real estate or be left behind like in Canada. You can have them. We will keep the good ones. I could easily be a millionaire if I could pay my employees the same that the business
December 21, 2025
Canada
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nonsense advice. I'm assuming you are trying to turn things around. I'm curious why aren't you taking medicaid? sign up immediately, medicaid sucks, but will give you immediate flow of $$. Same goes for VA insurance. and why do you have RDH? get rid of her can your wife work for you? have her stay up
December 13, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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years before 65), how do you plan to pay for your health insurance? I am 54 and currently paying $2300/month (or $28k/yr). And the premium goes up $2-300/month every year. In 5-10 yrs, my health insurance will probably be over $40k a year. It doesn't feel a lot now because I am working and have
February 09, 2026
Dental "Pearls"
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and many times dental insurance cover 80% of the costs of these rehabs. Regards Terry Thanks Stephen I have been very busy lately and not posted much for the past 2 months so just catching up a bit. The Canadian Government started a universal dental coverage program on May 1 , 2024. Many dental
September 21, 2025
Cosmetic Dentistry
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that it does so. Grinding away and working your tail-off incessantly is weirdly glorified in this profession. This is by product of insurance takeover 100%. if you gather 10 dentists at a table at a ce conference... and they all start talking I guarantee you this will happen: one will say they dropped
December 23, 2025
Personal Finance
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insurance companies to run the ADA. That's why you have had "corporate" dentistry invade because they are "helping" the ADA and so policy recommendations and "key" focused initiatives are suddenly corporate friendly. I wish I disagreed. But I think you are spot on. Ouch... but the truth hurts. Not sure
October 31, 2025
American Dental Association
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Hello friends, so I'm 2 months out of school and I'm faced with this complex case. My first instinct was to refer to prosthodontics or AEGD but no specialists in my area that would accept her insurance and her finances are limited. I wanted to post this here to see if there is anything I can do
November 21, 2025
Prosthodontic Cases
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the door. Get a psych evaluation. congratulations. My favorite thing about being a dentist. I post it not to gloat. Too much of that stuff on DT. But I got feelings too And my staff hates stuff like this. I'm seeing more and more folks getting this crap insurance and coming in dictating and complaining. I
February 02, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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shouting 'just keep running.' Scheduling chaos, inconsistent assistants, remakes, and constant interruptions turn clinical work into emotional labor. Add opaque compensation, collections that feel out of the associate's control, insurance write offs that shrink paychecks, and mentoring that is more
February 26, 2026
Associates Corner
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. No chance. None. Zero. Bupkis. Im wondering if Obamacare had something to do with it. Lots of people got health care from the exchange practically free. They were low income and it often came with crappy dental insurance. Over the last 10 years they have been flooding Dental offices. Now
March 04, 2026
Politics
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, but I'm thinking maybe if I do marketing, maybe take a few good insurances, add more days I can grow the practice. i see this "fear" a lot with buyers ...may be a legit fear, maybe not, the WHY is the key and even more important, what can NPs be with proper marketing, etc? here you have a 3 day\wk
April 07, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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to pull the tooth? Or get it fixed before it abscessed and they had insurance.... See critical thinking means you look at the story and analyze "yes this happened, but is the article using this event to drive home a point, or are their other factors that may have influenced this event" I bet $100 if you
April 03, 2026
Future Planning General 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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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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the board method and now small claims. Anything more would feel like harassment. I had a similar situation once and I called my malpractice insurance and they assigned an attorney to me...He came to the office and got all the records and he went to court for me...In fact he asked that i dont go
September 04, 2025
Legal Issues
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Can you explain that sentence in more detail, or direct to a thread where you talk about it ? Thanks unfortunately nothing to explain, we dont talk about network participation. "do you take my insurance?" yes the only people we informed were delta, we simply called all delta pts that were left
September 23, 2025
General Discussions
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, over time this is never going to be better than the alternative - fixed fee. 2) Fiduciary. Not a broker/insurance salesperson. They don't have to have a CFP (insurance salespeople often have a CFP, funny enough), but they must run their own RIA and not be an employee/IAR for anyone else. So many
July 22, 2025
Personal Finance
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