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is to just tell the patient I can't verify their insurance but they are welcome to pay the network fee out of pocket and I'll submit the claim for them. If the EOB comes back in network refund as necessary. If you have trouble with Medicare, treat it like OON Delta. Collect full amount from patient. Submit
January 18, 2026
PPOs and HMOs
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an Illumitrac patient is brought up for follow up to be priceless. They know the exact cost, the monies are paid @ time of procedure and we do not have to deal with any juvenile insurance claims representative. I look @ the in office plan as the best FU to the INSCOs. Sure I eat some profit, but I get
December 04, 2025
Front Office Discussion
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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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! 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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. Poor Lead Quality Traditional marketing methodsSEO, paid ads, insurance directoriesmay drive volume, but not necessarily the right volume. Practices often find themselves flooded with low-intent leads: patients browsing, bargain-hunting, or simply curious. Almost everyone will choose the best
July 23, 2025
Marketing
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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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, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals. Doctors are highly-educated and extensively trained at making difficult diagnoses and performing lifesaving procedures. However, they receive little to no training in business, personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, estate
July 21, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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a clarification would help. Malpractice, insurance, car, auto expense, medical insurance, 401k, profit sharing. CE. Employee spouse and family, Write off trips for CE. In your example, with 750k profit, you are saving 115,000 in taxes.... Even a more conservative profit of 250k you are saving
July 17, 2025
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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accept insurance? If so what is the profit you make on a new patient exam. x-rays, etc. If you are running 67% overhead how many patients does it take to make 10k per month (break even on the advertising). The answer is 15k to break even on your 10k expenditure. 2-if you accept insurance, what
January 28, 2026
Marketing
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be opened. Give them pliers and let them take their own teeth out. Especially as the regulator there are A holes. USA has this now. Its colloquially called dental insurance . Patient pays a premium every month then pays a fee (called a deductible) to access their benefits that are usually 20
September 02, 2025
United Kingdom
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for additional 2-3 operatories. big lab/sterilization room dentist's private office insurance/treatment planning room shielded panoramic alcove child play room waiting room kitchen 2 bathrooms on upper floor. 34 (including handicap) official parking spots plus ~ 5 parking spots directly in front
October 28, 2025
Practice Sales
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discussing this not long ago and the comments were insane. The vast majority of hygienist comments say they are not paid enough. When it's explained that the business takes in less revenue than what is paid out, they say it's the dentist's fault for taking insurance and not charging enough. Lol
January 19, 2026
Hygiene Discussions
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forgiven, collect a 150 to 200k salary, paid health insurance/disability/matching retirement, PTO, paid holidays. Health insurance off the marketplace isn't cheap anymore lol. I think those public health jobs are going to get harder and harder to get though. Oversaturation and so many new grads
November 24, 2025
Personal Finance
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an insurance or 2, worked less, made more, then sold private when he wanted. That's an extremely expensive insurance negotiator/consultant he bought. I believe he said the 90% up front was the difference. Every other offer it was the same PE deal shenanigans you all mention throughout this post. I don't
April 22, 2026
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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a call where something went wrong....then what? Most receptionists are doing the best they can. They're not salespeople. They often don't know how to handle complex objections or awkward insurance questions. And truthfully, most dentists don't either. So the natural instinct is 'let's hire a coach
September 22, 2025
Front Office Discussion
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need to at least discuss it with a risk management person at your insurance carrier. All could go smooth as silk but it could also go the other way as well. Honesty is always best policy but being guided by experts in that area is going to hopefully help out as well. What has to happen
July 12, 2025
Endodontics
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and it was the end of year so they wanted to come in to use it. Our caller told her that we didnt take flex cars becaUse she had never heard of it. Another said she had Metlife but our caller said we can't verify insurance so turned her away on a Saturday. Another said she was hurting and the caller asked
August 07, 2025
Marketing
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insurance but, they're not on our side. Are they going to give you a break in your bill for the next couple of years to cover the $4k? Do they give us money back when they have a good year not paying out claims? All they care about is not paying money out and they are always more than happy to let
July 16, 2025
Legal Issues
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The true cause of financial struggle has nothing to do with insurance companies or DSOs or lack of patients. The true cause is how many people showed up who overcame fear and lack of funds and got sent away due to the following dental school mentality: 1. Go get medical consult unnecessarily
July 18, 2025
Personal Finance
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paying it off, with him reimbursing me for lost income, and I said yes. So... this week I will become debt free for the first time in 34 years. Not really looking forward to it - now I gotta remember to pay property taxes and insurance... vs predictable autodraw every month. Seems more a hassle
December 29, 2025
Retirement Planning
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will get a ton of downvotes- is to just let insurance companies take over the landscape- employ students- and then give them a portion of loan repayment. There should also be options like prison, ice, Indian health and so on. My medical office was bought out by optum unh. I now see optum health
December 30, 2025
Personal Finance
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was exactly the same. Not a single complaint. I love them and we are an extended family. I'm very thankful. Great idea Mark! April used to be that month for me. Between wife and I 10+k expenses in that month (malpractice policies, business insurances and conference fees). I would take a tiny paycheck
January 26, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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just move on. My bad. I got triggered when I read your comment about who I live with. I was thinking what does that have to do with DSO. Sorry. Please read your post. What percent of the population that has dental insurance doesn't care if their DDS in in or out of network? I went OON January 1. We
November 21, 2025
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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automated SOAP notes, insurance narratives, and patient recall insights. Trust AI aims to enhance clinical decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and streamline dental practice operations. Steven Feit DMD Prosthodontist Expert Witness Consultant Speaker Trust AI is your solution. Will mitigate
December 11, 2025
Practice Management Software
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of insurance which had no yearly max. Anything and everything was covered at 80%. Guess what else? His wife and many of his co-workers are also looking for dentists and they all have the same insurance. Guess what? We got them all. Ya, keep referring and refusing. I see your point DFW and honestly, your story
March 13, 2026
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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in their article. The myth proffered by private equity was that of enlightened capitalists generously sharing wealth with workers. Apparently, Ownership Works (a nonprofit) helped sanitize the deal. Just as certain insurance companies abuse taxpayers as nonprofits, apparently so also for some public
April 21, 2026
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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the reality that for a family of four, the vast majority of those expenses mentioned are going to be covered by whatever dental insurance plan they subscribe to. So $6,000 over the course of a year for professional dental services including surgery, preventative maintenance, class 2 restorations
May 21, 2026
Ethics & Professional Conduct
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How does this impact those looking to purchase? Everything is expensive now. Just looked at my triple guard insurance and had to up it by 3x because my office replacement value is way up due to increased construction and equipment costs. It's crazy. Any buyer of a dental office will have to take
October 08, 2025
Canada
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, their business, etc. Its crap like this that gets insurance companies pitting dentists against each other instead of helping each other and forming a more united front. Another vote for leaving it be if the patient doesn't complain. If the patient does complain, I would tactfully try to get them
July 24, 2025
Billing
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, but it is what it is.there is likely a significant amount that insurance declines payment for or other collections issues. Ive had to redo my own work too. Im not perfect. Ive had my share of learning experiences from trial and errors. Sure enough each day has no shows and we can run behind. I do all
July 15, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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to medicaid patients. We may also see other dental insurances such as Delta follow suit. You really think so? In this scenario you are assuming the pedo is going to tell the family they can't do GA right away because of what the referring GP did. Then relying on the family going back to the GP and get angry
July 09, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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of People magazine and met with "I don't want to read" while sitting in the hospital bed tapping at her phone. Third story is about 3 friends from California wanting to get stomach stapling and were denied by their insurance. So they get an idea to go to Turkey and get it done there for cheap. One
January 20, 2026
General Health
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ole family truckster tor San Diago for spring break in early April. I'm gonna look you up. Maybe we can have a margarita and discuss landscape insurance. See you in April. bro, why waste the server space with this post. you don't give a hoot about kids. guns kill more kids per year in this shithole
February 03, 2026
Politics
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for efficiency? Two things: I realize there is voice activated charting and hiring more staff, etc, but I would prefer not to go those routes. Also, most of my patients are from Central and South America and pay cash, so I have few insurance patients. Thanks in advance! your DH is being lazy, as simple
November 24, 2025
Periodontics
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my health insurance premiums went up $7400. THIS coming year they go up ANOTHER $10,428. So remember this when coastals here proclaim the Dtards are REALLY on top of things and KNOW THEIR SHIT. A program for the masses that was INCREDIBLY well thought out. Coastal snobs will of course say
December 14, 2025
Politics
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and, on balance, more accurate. When ships go dark, several dangerous dynamics emerge simultaneously: accountability collapses (if an incident occurs, attribution becomes contested), insurance and liability frameworks break down, and the threshold for a miscalculation - an accidental engagement
March 10, 2026
Politics
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, very unlikely any surge suppressor will work for that. It's what insurance is for. 10 YO Soredex. Not work, but I had a lightening strike hit a 50 year old palm tree () and my whole house surge protector saved a bunch of things. some random lights still broke and a switch, but everything else saved
June 11, 2025
Digital Radiography
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two is too few that I might lose touch with teeth...... So three is good, for now. I think most get far more risk tolerant because if you lay an egg, no recovery required. The problem then becomes, those are the ones that pay well. Crop insurance? Check.... Turns out it's a BS game only insiders
September 25, 2025
Personal Finance
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between $500 and $700, to smooth out slow days. Those speaking in general note that higher percentages sometimes come with the trade-off of paying a matching share of lab costs, while lower percentages are offered 'lab-free.' Which works out better depends on the mix of procedures, insurance
September 16, 2025
Associates Corner
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can stay alive. Rubber Dam Realities Isolation remains a hot topic. Some dentists say they could never justify the extra time it takes to place a dam for every Class II when insurance reimbursement is low. Others insist that proper bonding is impossible without it. The practical advice: use the tools
September 07, 2025
Bonding Products &Techniques
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will dominate in the near future. Some insurance companies are already buying up private practice groups - which I can see being the future. Optum bought out alot of medical clinics in our area. Just another nail in the coffin for dentistry. FQHC used to provide a solid 8-5 gig with good benefits
August 04, 2025
Residencies, AEGDs and GPRs
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some in my mouth over 40 years, I just don't do them), haven't accepted insurance as payment since 1999, haven't accepted a check since 2008. All things I learned in Dental School that I have not found the need or desire to do in private practice. I use the same ones as you. I use them weekly. Thanks
September 15, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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adoption without similar infrastructure. Finally, this transaction highlights how DSOs are evolving from simple roll-ups into multi-layered support organizations. Heartland isn't just aggregating practices; it is embedding training (Heartland Dental University), insurance relations, HR, IT, supply chain
September 09, 2025
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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the benefits. The Money Factor Looming over the whole discussion is money. Hygiene wages in many markets now range from $55 to $70 an hour while insurance reimbursements stagnate. Some dentists are scaling themselves and delegating polishing to assistants. Others push for paying hygienists
October 20, 2025
Hygiene Discussions
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a dentist tell a patient he needed a bone graft after extracting 17 "to prevent the nerve being exposed." The patients themselves may be on Medicaid but in the area I work in, family and friends pool resources and fundraise so their grandparent with limited financial means can get their 28 bone grafts before getting their $1100 set of upper and lower dentures fully covered by insurance.
October 27, 2025
Ethical Issues
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Have built a solid office (mostly medicaid and accept most other insurances as of late but have not done any advertisingthey still find us and schedule appts). Looking to travel for a bit and then move to a larger market. Have 5 full equipped ops and a 6th op plumbed with a chair and delivery unit
July 28, 2025
Future Planning General Discussions
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I can't understand how a solo dentist with 50K monthly collections can't make his OH less than 50%! lets say a dentist with two staff with 5k each + a rent and bills of 5k + supply&lab 5K a month! what else can eat your earnings? Where is your rent under 2k a month ? Being OON with insurance
July 07, 2025
Equipment, Acquisition & Practice Expansion Financing
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that insurance will pay for. Or their schedule isn't full and you have lots of open time. Including the in office plan brought it up close to 20%. What is the goal?They see 8 patients a day. 2 quads of SRP/laser per day on average. Our hygiene is booked for 3 months so we rarely have an open spot which
June 19, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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, deadlifts, and overhead press strengthen the exact muscle groups stressed by dental surgery. Jefferson curls can help your spine adapt to real-world flexion under load. These arent just workouts, theyre career-saving insurance. Microbreaks, Massage, and Scheduling Smarts If youre doing long cases
July 09, 2025
Stretching / Exercise for the Dental Professional
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did. The core message is simple. Data protection in a dental office is not an IT detail. It is a business survival issue, on the same level as infection control, malpractice insurance, and regulatory compliance. Convenience without resilience is fragile, and Toy Story 2 is proof of how close even
December 27, 2025
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