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at birth identical... You are the ultimate perma bull lol. Billions of dollars shoved to insurance companies by the enhanced ACA that Congress knew would expired and did nothing. If D's were so in tune with federal workers, D's would have voted for GOP bill to pay federal workers. Yet they shot
November 08, 2025
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. It is expensive to live in DFW but not close to cost of living in LA nor NYC. Don't you think the report is sensationalized coming from a local tv outlet? I'm more interested in where you got your data in the previous post. An I crazy or does $2600 for health insurance for a family of 8 seem
November 14, 2025
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health insurance cheaper for 24 million Americans. As much as anything, the shutdown was effected to showcase Republican ( they are very much in power and pretty much completely in the limelight al the time) intransigence and pettiness. I maintain it succeeded very admirably in doing that. Zakaria
November 18, 2025
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of the year, I think that may get stretched out but I am looking forward to it. If Tesla really wants to get rid of all those darn Cybertrucks they currently have I may need to have a look. The M3P has 40 K on it now. I'm afraid the insurance premium will be insane, the 3 is plenty costly to insure
December 03, 2025
Personal Finance
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things. We hold insurance checks the last week of December and deposit them on January 2nd. If that's not enough to cover the first payroll of the year, we use a line of credit at the bank and pay it back as the first checks come in during the first few days of January. It seems odd to me
December 05, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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to carry malpractice insurance? Guess who gets to handle their complications? I think I would let me assistants numb if I was the one to teach them how to do it...I have some talented assistants and I think most of them would enjoy a new skill...I currently use my hygienists to numb most of the patients
March 31, 2026
Dental Assistants
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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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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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getting Trump re elected? Good point drifter... And yet SHOCKINGLY, its only been R political folks being shot and killed. Gee, I wonder why? Hold it, its coming to me.... white supremacists. edit: insurance salesman has ONE to two ratio? Hockman gets credit. Don't sell yourself short my friend. We're
September 10, 2025
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aren't necessary. But if you're dealing with deep decay, young pulp, or a blushing floor, a liner might offer a little extra insurance, psychological or biological. If you forgot the liner on that #31 MO? Don't beat yourself up. You're in good company. Just monitor the tooth, trust your bonding protocol
October 23, 2025
Bonding Products &Techniques
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to renew insurance contracts, messing with the future schedule. She is a petty person so none of this surprises me. We have looked back and she had added hours to her schedule that she didn't work the past few months. I am over it, it is her problem having no morals moving forward in life.
August 07, 2025
Staff Management Issues
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is extremely negative for dentistry. From loans, to inflation, to corporate, to insurance companies buying practices, to hygienists and so on. The only real silver lining with dentistry still remains that you can be your own business owner. That's about it. I think dentistry can be good if it's all FFS
August 06, 2025
Dental Students
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. Getting a robot to do a filling for 300k versus you do it with a 20$ assistant and a matrix band makes no sense when insurance pays you 100$. The return of income makes no sense. medicine on the other hand have price tags in the hundreds of thousands which recaptures their investment Your point
July 15, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
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if this is right, but in my head If you take insurance like I do, the reimbursement per procedure is exactly the same no matter what. Every minute I spend noodling over admin stuff just decreases my pay per hour. Unless it allows me to charge more or bring more patients in the door, I don't worry
November 02, 2025
Front Office Discussion
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intelligence. Our 1 year contract is coming to an end and im hoping to get out smoothly. Soon to be determined. Horrible costumer service, they only direct you to a 'chat' room for help. We only signed up because we wanted to use their insurance claim platform and it has been a nightmare dealing
January 21, 2026
Marketing
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, payroll, benefits, insurance, etc. That's why reviews, testimonials, and real social proof matter. You want to make sure the people you're hiring have a solid track record and that you're not just taking a gamble and hoping this company actually does what they claim they will. David made a great point
October 29, 2025
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not much difference from an insurance write off....Everyone is charging it these days so our patients are used to it by now from other places they go Im neither for or against as I can see how much this cost adds up. I pay 1.9-2% typically. Few thoughts though...I would first try different services
November 19, 2025
Equipment, Acquisition & Practice Expansion Financing
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yourself short. The same people who claim they can't afford dental work are the same ones blowing a check at the LV store. for the average middle class American w/o vv good insurance. dentistry is unaffordable. its that simple Prove it Send her to the dental school. Fuck it. It's HER problem that she went
March 09, 2026
Ethical Issues
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and bottom duplicate denture. I occasionally use the HITECH Act paperwork and waver, for acknoagment of noncoverservices cosmetic/ or upgrades services and do not bill insurance depending on how the policy reads. Particularly as it relates to a duplicate denture. 3. The first visit is an interview to see
March 07, 2026
Removable Prosthodontics
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beliefs find such a dentist, and leave me alone....lol. You know they probably charge 1500 bucks to remove amalgam. No insurance taken. follow the money. Money. Or the separation of money from gullible patients into their wallets. No eye protection for the operator and wear your loupes below your nose? Looks like plenty of morons during 2020/2021----why not keep the insanity rolling.
March 04, 2026
Ethical Issues
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motion when way up high or tilted / reclined greatly. So now I know a whole lot about Permobile power chairs, Made in Sweden and quite superb. Medical and dental pricing is insurance driven. She is such a creature of habit getting her adjusted to the new one will be a while.
April 26, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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entertain yourself by buying their new 2026 ADA code book of codes that insurances companies won't cover. Where do you teach? Why is it 2.5 years? The closest school near me does it in 2 years. 5 years ago it was 250k for those two years and I was told it was the cheapest at that price. But 4 years were
April 11, 2026
Licensing by Credentials
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for the patient that I will reference. Content mirrors my thoughts after 52 years of private FFS practice. It might be time to write one about the Dental Insurance Industry and padded treatment plans. Haha, don't tempt me. There are things that I want to add to my book so maybe one day I write an updated
May 20, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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England weather...instead of if you don't like it give it 10 minutes. You'll have to wait 2 years. For all the no kings folks, may I remind you that either you take the shot or you're fired or you have medical insurance or you'll get fined. Not much a decree here keep walking Hopefully it won't
May 26, 2026
Military Dentistry
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/better location. I think you suffer from something interesting. I don't know how to explain it- but I will phrase this way: When most doctors start out- they go with either a PPO/HMO/Medicaid type of setting and through denials, patients who don't wanna pay, complain about you, get burned out, run 5
July 15, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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from your office on this day. 43. Don't nickel and dime the patient to death-New patient-denture sore spot-no charge, current patient broken tooth-charge for x-ray but no charge for D0140 or no charge to smooth the sharp edge if no insurance patient. 44. In house membership program-here is a twist go
June 16, 2025
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, providing AI tools for diagnostics, treatment planning, patient education, and insurance workflows. Combined with adoption of Curodont from vVardis, which enables non-invasive enamel remineralization, the company is shifting toward proactive preventive care and preservation over restoration
August 08, 2025
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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they share in common on the test 4. Malpractice insurance rates for DTs in MN are about $100, similar to that of Dental hygiensits and much lower than that of dentists. THese malpratice insurance companies are not stupid 5. 100% of the published studies demonstrate high quality of DT services. If you have
May 01, 2026
Ethical Issues
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Administrator. I completed the process by the book, notifying my mortgage companies, insurance company, and local government that my primary residence was changing. He further asserts that he told Pro Publica this, but they went with the article anyway. Pretty close. 25 percent tariffs on all goods
September 07, 2025
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are surrounded by angry locals coming out of the woodwork. Not sure where he is getting his intel, but the premiums I pay are well over 10% of my GROSS income. AND, as of now, the ONLY insurance carrier I was able to get down midstate IL is pulling out of IL DEc 31st cause its TOO expensive
October 17, 2025
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in the US are usually trapped in the failed dental Medicaid program. Oh, some will argue. We have the answer. It's water fluoridation. The D/M/F rates for disadvantaged children continues to be outrageously too high. The insurance industry and Medicaid MCOs (managed care organizations a/k/a third party
August 01, 2025
Public Health Dentistry
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think the big offices that were based on the model of cheap real estate and cheap labor are they ones closing. Those big places inevitably take most ppo insurance to try and feed the rent and staff costs. Pay and real estate costs have sky rocketed. That model is broken. I worked for perfect teeth in 4
January 04, 2026
Financing School and Loan Repayment
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with capture of the image, including report" and can be billed to insurance. Denver, the initial post said 18 hours a week. wouldnt that be like 2-2.5 days a week. If you did 2- 9 hours days a week and getting 200k thats pretty damn good to me. Its prob 7 hours x2 and then a 4 hour half day. oh and btw
October 30, 2025
Staff Management Issues
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day. My surgical extraction fee is not enough to cover those. in our rural area typical reimbursement from insurance can be less than $100 for an extraction. No thanks What???? I thought rural is where you go to get rich. 100$ for a potential sinus perf and complications? Ya- uh refer out. You're
November 24, 2025
Endodontics
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on cruise control. All this sky is falling fear, I will build a bunker in my backyard. For all u younger dentists, any of you have a personality above a sloth, provide above average dentistry, hire good type A people-get of the network. Don't be enslave to the insurance PPO fee. Truth!!! Your cost
March 23, 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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of a sudden he was a sunday school teacher. It's getting to be very annoying to deposit cash in the bank. I have to show my ID every time I have more than $500 to deposit. Though it doesn't happen very often anymore, I mostly get paid by credit cards and insurance checks. Nobody asks me for an ID
June 10, 2025
Politics
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to spend little time on the facts of the case. My previous fact based efforts were a waste of time. Ill Keep it short this time. Obama inflated the value of properties to receive better loans and insurance rates. He did it on at least 6 golf courses. One apartment. 2 other properties
August 31, 2025
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impairment, I like to document why [FOR A MULTITUDE OF REASONS both clinical, and legal] and try to find a simpler solution before moving to GA/sedation. BUT the wall is the anesthesiology fee--generally not covered (and even then the ENT work up *can* help with certain insurances). Travelling
October 10, 2025
GP / Specialist Communication
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checking out. I've been with our daughter every step of the way. I've missed a LOT of time at the office. Missing a half day tomorrow for lumbar puncture (intrathecal chemo). The financial impact (even with insurance) is HEAVY. Pretty much wipes anyone out. Retirement plans? Fuggedaboutit! haha! So
July 02, 2025
Announcements
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today, while the BBB was getting passed, Trump was meeting with the Saudi defense minister to discuss peace in the Middle East. Multitasking, and winning Obama screwed up my health insurance Thats not partisan banter its a fact. good thing Im healthy. I put in a call. Consider it rectified
July 03, 2025
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make it in the real world of dentistry working for the private sector. Regardless whose fault it is and there are many and rightly so such as ADA, DSO, INSURANCE, INCOMPETENT TEAM MEMBERS, LACK OF CBCT, MICROSCOPE, INCOMPETENT DENTIST SCHOOL EDUCATION... the only person ultimately responsible
July 12, 2025
General Discussions
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and socially drained to come home and put on energy for the kids is rough... not getting a raise because we are stuck in insurance stagnation sucks to. If I didn't make money outside dentistry- investing- I would say the job sucks. But because dentistry gave me the $ to invest- and that in itself
July 19, 2025
Dental Students
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differently. One of the skits from "The Man Show" featured an insurance you buy so that if you die, they will clean up your apartment of its empty beer cans, pot, bong, and porn so your mom would remember you(falsely) as a wonderful, moral boy. That scaffolding looks gorgeous compared to the stuff I
January 05, 2026
Politics
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the standard, and reminding us all what excellence in dentistry really looks like. Thank you for the link! I saw in your other post where you mentioned billing these as four surfaces composites, am I correct in assuming these are FFS patients? I'm trying to figure out how I could offer this type of treatment in a PPO office. Thoughts? Yes I am FFS but also bill insurance companies for these composite bridges the same way. Terry
January 12, 2026
Cosmetic Dentistry
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dictate everything. Give us some more info (unless I missed it): How long have you been open as a startup? How much are you collecting each month? I would say in general you should be evaluating your schedule (how you schedule, length of certain slots/treatments), you collections process and insurance
June 16, 2025
Ask a Dental Consultant
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fights (at the most). There are numerous issues: among others: 1. Facility security 2. Facility maintenance & repair & cleaning 3. Parking rights 4. Signage rights 5. Use of space: host, guest and common space 6. Insurance requirements 7. Rental inclusions/exclusions and payment terms 8
January 27, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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analgesia and a new pan/cbct. The very last thing to do in 2026 is plumb in medical gas. You can easily spend the cost of a good CBCT machine on the medical gas piping and equipment. Your insurance rates will also go up. Bail out on plumbing in the gas and buy a portable roll around cart that uses
February 01, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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? Esthetic with touchups covered for 5 years. Options 2 & 3 aren't covered by insurance, but, according to him, pts can and will pay the extra price above 'regular' for the more esthetic option, if they are inclined that way. Awesome! y I was looking up the premiere contoured bands and did not find
December 01, 2025
Cosmetic Dentistry
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this depends on the specific situation. A website doesn't just bring in new patients; it also supports a wide variety of functions across the practice. It provides essential information about the practice and providers, outlines accepted insurance and payment methods, educates patients about
February 14, 2026
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