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a little more than temporary.' The office still runs old school. There's no computer tracking billing records, insurance forms or the daily schedule. Although lately, Gowin has been known to sneak her laptop in to research protocol for closing a dental office and post office equipment on Craigslist
October 30, 2025
Politics
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incentives. This conversation always irritates me. Insurance fees haven't gone up for dentists in like decades, and then people are focusing their energy on trying to let foreign trained dentists practice in America and trying to water down our standards. Willfully ignoring what the problems are You would
February 23, 2026
Public Health Dentistry
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the hardest. Urban regions still have dentists, but they are unevenly distributed, and many practices do not participate in public insurance programs. In smaller communities, the issue is more basic. There simply is no dentist, or there is one dentist covering multiple counties. Federal workforce
March 17, 2026
Associates Corner
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more energy, and more debt, then watch your pile get bigger. Not spending money monthly on software subscriptions, cloud backup, sensor insurance, malware protection, etc etc etc watch your pile getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Now, I'm not telling you how to run YOUR business
March 16, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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tax sounded like a good idea in the 70s until i became closely aware of people living paycheck to paycheck and less. They must choose between going without auto insurance, dental and needed health-care, adequate food, and much more to pay taxes. We do not have that problem, never had, never
June 07, 2025
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be able to notify staff of sale until after completion. So assuming worst case scenario all your ortho staff leave (associate and front/back assistants). How quick are you able to understand the ortho mgt software/insurances and other front office issues to continue operations? And with the clinical
August 27, 2025
Practice Sales
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, relying totally on same-day opportunities without a booked schedule is stressful and risky. Having patients booked in advance creates stability. The healthiest practices maintain a balance. OP, can you make a new thread on how you grew your startup to 4 mill in collections? Were you in network with most insurances and then started dropping them? Congrats on all the success! Disregard my previous advice, I need to learn from you lol
October 06, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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, that somehow vindicates the left.' You would be perfect for the insurance sales industry, complete inability to question the scripted narrative. Have you considered a second career? Sure he rebelled against religion. That happens all the time. Then influenced by left wing hate. He killed someone. murderers
September 14, 2025
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which read like conclusions. That's all It depends on what gives a person's life meaning. Yes, there is death, but anything can be taken away. Ramin. Kirk was MURDERED for expressing his opinions. We don't need Melker's example to know where things are. That lunatic Luigi who murdered the Insurance CEO
September 16, 2025
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of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).The plan is to roll it out to other US agencies. Members of the call included staffers from across the government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among others. Leading Wednesday's
August 16, 2025
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, and we will use novocaine and laughing gas...Your insurance will pay the maximum of $1000... the remaining $3000, if paid today, will be reduce 20% or $600, as a prepayment discount... Otherwise, we will collect $500 at each of the 6 appointments... We look forward to treating you.. Your overhead
August 18, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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it was fixed. Again, this is how the system is supposed to work, not a President spending money that is not authorized by Congress. Nah, Ram will prefer to tell u ur wrong and ignore actual records. laughing I wonder if Hertz insurance rates went up. We are still paying the cell phone bill on all 3 of our
October 23, 2025
Politics
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guilty and lashed out at you. Pray it away! I wouldn't shrug off the 600k practices if the rent and visibility is good. I purchased my practice about 5 years ago, and it was doing 600k. He was doing no marketing and hadn't negotiated with insurance but I have grown it almost double in that time frame
October 21, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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patients and train them to value your appointments. Again, you have to stay on top of your front desk for this. Also, I would increase production by doing what others stated above. Make sure you're charging everything out correctly, look at your insurance contracts to make sure they are able to cover
July 25, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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less truthful with time? Spoken like a bona fide Trumptard. Pete, 2017 Harvey flood and 2023 Beryl hurricane all contact were via online and with insurance agent. I was involved in both claims. Trump speaks the languages we moderns can understand. The language of preference: I want. The language
July 13, 2025
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Insurance costs 4 years of inflation First time ever supply of housing outnumbers buyers. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. How is the GA trial going against Trump? I think it will.Housing market is regional. There is already price cuts happening in Florida, Texas and Arizona due
June 25, 2025
Personal Finance
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asses covered? Yeah, a complete Health Hx every time would be ideal but it DOES put people off, not a good way to start so many appointments off. WW ... We update every recall.if no changes they can write NO CHANGE and sign it, also contains a section for insurance changes. Not a big deal really
June 17, 2025
Medical Emergencies
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. We find out when they call to cancel their upcoming hygiene appointment and make an excuse so they don't have to reschedule. They don't express that they are leaving. I find out later. If I think they might have left for another office, sometimes I can go on their insurance plan's website and see
June 19, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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fee for the abutment and crown? I'm 2260ish, so I would have to tell my patients it will be over 10K for an implant/crown if I sent to this specialist. Definitely lose this guy's referral pad :) If he charged that much and patient paid then we are all getting underpaid. This is the stupid insurance
August 04, 2025
Billing
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scenario for cigarette butt tossers or guys who think their little campfire will go unnoticed and no big deal anyway. I think you get the picture. We have some entitled, selfish and not very bright, inconsiderate people and they walk around. Doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical
August 10, 2025
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use as many good friends as come. My two oldest sisters are nuns and all dentistry that I know of is done by dentists volunteers. That's how I have always seen it done. I've never known of an archdiocese having dental insurance. Yet the Vatican is one of the richest entities
July 31, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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his life together after a long stent in prison. His teeth had been removed while incarcerated but no dentures were ever made. It's really difficult to be profitable with dentures when providing tx at insurance prices or reduced fees if you're doing the old 5 appt process most of us learned
August 14, 2025
Removable Prosthodontics
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used for over 125 insurance policies - Nearly $21 billion, 1/3 of the subsidies paid out went to people who never claimed the payments on their tax returns.' '58,000 dead people received benefits. At least 7,000 were dead before the coverage kicked in. That's thousands of applications filed
December 24, 2025
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more repairs than a new car. The cost of auto maintenance is up 10%, auto insurance is up too - everything is up once you adjust for wage increases. $150k needed could turn to $200k needed at this rate. So imagine if there is a sizeable stock market correction while the cost of living keeps creeping
December 23, 2025
Personal Finance
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units. I visited one of these apartments in the Bronx: a three bedroom apartment in a pretty nice neighbourhood with lots of transit-options that could easily fit a family of six. The operating expenses alone (heat, hot water, insurance, garbage collection) would likely be around $1200 / month
December 18, 2025
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. Sondra Locke was cute, even though she grew up in Shelbyville...... Apparently Clint agrees Does that mean US taxpayers have an opportunity to save money? Let's annex Greenland!! Maybe if we steal all the world's resources we'll get health insurance. We ought to consider dropping a few Dollar Generals
January 07, 2026
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all the other services? Shouldn't everyone have a big house and drink fine wine? My satellite internet is too high. HBO should be free. We could call it government entertainment. How does that help reduce the cost of health insurance? "Head and shoulders more moral than the adjacent countries
October 31, 2025
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. For many people that leverage into crypto and stocks- it's their one ticket out of their 8-5 working for 60k a year while health insurance increases along with grocery bills. It's a reason for doom spending and more yolo plays in the market. Yes. The Trump admin is creating dip after dip that always
November 03, 2025
Personal Finance
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". You cannot do good dentistry with PPO fees and you are going to make sure that you will do a good job with even lower fees. We have become whores to the insurance industry. Spending 350K+ money and 8 years of our lives to become what we have become. Exceptions get my respect. There is another guy
January 13, 2026
Practice Start-Up
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and quickly slip back into her old ways. #1 has to go. And don't give a raise BEFORE behavior improves. I offered a RDA a $2/hour raise if she learned how to do insurance verification and some other front desk duties so she could help out in a pinch. She never learned. She didn't get the raise and she never
January 17, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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is a cesspit. Rude, crowded, overly expensive, overly humid, etc. Insurance for homeowners is practically non-existent or overly expensive. Healthcare is not that great. Food is somewhat getting better there. Also, you better speak Spanish down there. Source: I used to live there. Worst place I've
January 29, 2026
Personal Finance
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, financially it is more viable. I have one ex-military turned commercial pilot as a patient who is also into aviation photography. We always have great conversations. Just make sure that disability and life insurance will cover you with flying. My wife told me "NO' when I wanted to do it. She told me
February 03, 2026
Aviation
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. Won't get married on paper. Her parents do to. They live in a 1 million dollar home. When I went to their house they literally had a pantry full of food that they get for free. It was interesting though- a lot of knock off products and canned food. also health insurance through the state for her two
October 30, 2025
Personal Finance
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hygiene, I want it to be myself and a single staff member. I don't want 3 other decision makers, all with doctor egos, if the only benefit is "shared front desk and advertising." When insurance and staffing becomes a challenge, I dream of this ultra-simple business model. Maybe one day I will pull
February 11, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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-bond prematurely. Stick with a single abutment. We charge the extra cost of the semiprecious metal to the patient. Travis has a chapter on it in his excellent Dental Insurance book. I recommend being up front with the patient regarding extra costs and complexity. Don't do shortcuts, or it'll bite you hard in the ass.
February 23, 2026
Fixed Prosthodontics
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not mean Trump is not trying. Your turn to answer: According to the Trump administration and supporters, the closure of shipping in the ME will hurt China more than the US So why is the US is trying to reopen shipping? Why not prolong the closure? Fun fact: Shippers are more scared of the insurance
March 15, 2026
Personal Finance
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. Dentistry used to be described like a profession with a business attached. Today it often feels like a business with a profession stuffed inside it. You are not just prepping crowns and diagnosing cracked teeth. You are also managing staff drama, insurance nonsense, software subscriptions, OSHA, HR, cyber
March 29, 2026
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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they make a decision it is not likely successful? Trump was doing bank fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud for years or decades before he was ever charged and convicted. I'm not going to jump to some grand poo pah conspiracy as the reason involving a president, DOJ and FBI And when somebody posts
April 23, 2026
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grants to the states, along with 50-50 cost sharing on all manner of funding. Is there an outbreak of uncontrolled fires now? I'd agree to some extent. But schools should be state and locally funded. We already pay different insurance rates depending on where we live. Yes, costs for things like
May 01, 2026
Politics
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dental practice owners. I would suggest she get dental experience somewhere before making any decisions. The value she would bring is being able to handle all of the insurance, etc. herself and hire staff as needed but she would always want to be able to do any administrative position if someone leaves
April 28, 2026
Practice Start-Up
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. If anything I over sell the risks. This person had a waiting period or something going on w her insurance so I wrote down that we can even wait as it might get symptomatic and need even more expensive treatment. My note said I warned them first thing and then before numbing. I've noticed people under 30ish
April 28, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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contract a bit due to hefty FFS population and some insurance optimization. Now on 10 days hygiene and 4 days of doc. Percentage was 45-50% now its 35-40%. Came from a doctor production heavy office. Became a refferal-dontist pretty quick unless its stuff I want to do. Im fairly young too with sedation
May 07, 2026
Ask a Dental Consultant
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word of mouth and insurance referrals. I don't know what an expensive website would do and how much it' costs. Officite website is there so we can say we have a page. That's it. Once a year I go edit something. 100\month seems a lot to host since they don't really do anything else. Not even edit. can
May 10, 2026
Dentist Websites
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, and ortho. They have a CEREC but no pano or CBCT. Hygiene production (2025): 31% Employee compensation: 36% Estimated income before taxes: $341,200 Insurance mix: (PPO) 60/ 40 (FFS) Rent seems very high as you noted From personal experience going into affluent areas- Adding procedures that some
May 28, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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the door. Let me see...I could ask for referrals (which I do) or just buy all FFS patients that want to give me money. I could take every insurance under the sun and write off a shit more than 30K and hate my life...or spend the money on marketing that no one else does because they think 30K is a lot
January 31, 2026
Marketing
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If the state had decent computer algorithms that particular scam of x-ray dates would be caught. Every insurance company has such and ENFORCES limitations on excessive radiographs (if not over-enforcement). The MCOs (managed care organizations or 3rd party administrators) have zero incentive
February 11, 2026
Ethical Issues
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this! Apparently Xi has been purging the top generals, I wonder what the story is. Feel bad for the dentists and small businesses. One of my friends during the riots back in 2020 had their office broken into, all their sensors taken along with computer. No cops came to help. Just file with insurance
January 27, 2026
Personal Finance
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office but provides you the potential to be in -network for some of the most commonly used insurance companies - as well as offering full support in credentialing and becoming a Medicare Provider. LOOKING FOR A DENTIST WITH TM JOINT DYSFUNCTION AND/OR PAIN, AND/OR HEADACHE CONCERNS..... Or.... Are you
April 09, 2026
CE Comments / Suggestions / Events
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there is a little of the part of that Aspen dental comment in all of us? So Nick is a pompous ass that makes his own way in the best way he knows how. More power to him I guess? Takes all kinds...I'm just another idiot insurance dentist...part of the problem, its the best I could do. Hey, I did a nice
May 14, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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, troubleshooting CAD/CAM systems, managing sterilization compliance, handling insurance headaches, coordinating implant workflows, educating patients, juggling schedules, monitoring inventory, calming nervous patients, and somehow still finding time to ask if you want your loupes cleaned. A great
May 11, 2026
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