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ever. He was being crushed by insurance. He was way over worked. So he went concierge. He went from 3000 patients to 400 overnight. To be in his practice you have to pay $2800 January 1 every year. He went from a struggling overwork MD to collect it over $1 million January 1. Sure it's not all roses
October 06, 2025
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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, youre still expected to be in charge, yet still answer to insurance companies and bad scheduling and are expected to just make it work. If you dont, youre blamed. Im just not sure where to go from here and am praying that my next job will be better. Any advice or tips for how to prevent
August 15, 2025
Dental Students
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like below. Making it or not depend on each individual dentist. No one else. Not school, not the business one work for, not the insurance one take, not the office manager.... Would an institution like Spear going to make any difference in the lives of either dentist? That one.... Jesus you gotta
August 15, 2025
Dental Students
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insurance rates. Nope. It's definitely a real thing though. Would take effort to explain and understand. Unfortunately I don't think I'd get effort on the other side Btw... Mad respect for you as a dentist. You're a killer and I appreciate your posts, but I can't handle conspiracy... This tragedy
July 16, 2025
In the News
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afraid to spend it. They may not be saving much, but the majority of Americans never have. wages have indeed skyrocketed but so has the cost of living... i am shocked how expensive food has gotten and if i had a large family i would be screwed. then there is rent and car insurance, car payments etc
July 23, 2025
Personal Finance
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local comfort offices. I did dozens of 2nd opinions for their patients. Almost without exception they were legit coming from the offices around me. In fact I suggested patients consider them when they switched insurance to one I did not take, but comfort was on their list. Disclaimer, I have never
July 29, 2025
Endodontics
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to not only produce butcollectas well. The OM needs a little incentive to go after insurance problems andcollect We set ours at a good minimum oncollections,$100.. Then everyone gets an extra $50 per added 3K. It prevents sandbagging procedures to the next month. Fwiw they have had bonuses over
June 20, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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to pay check. They are all asking me to tell them the secret. I'll tell everyone the secret 1. Don't work super low paying jobs 2. Don't accept Medicaid 3. Don't be in network with any insurance 4. Live a Frugal life until you are way out of debt 5. Invest, Invest, Invest......dentistry
June 16, 2025
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more year for about 5-10 years at least The #1 goal in retirement is not to outlive your money and my biggest concern are the possibilities of long term care with that insurance for most is prohibitive My condolences Matt. Yes, the older we get, the more wake up calls we get. Nothing in life
June 12, 2025
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these things. They were told that by the OM of the office. Dr. you're not doing enough crowns. We need the production. She's no longer with me as she couldn't get rid of her corporate mindset. WW So why havent we banned together to stop something much easier like dental insurance? Who said it's easier
August 08, 2025
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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were sick and tired of spending money on something that was something in the head. AND they are beyond insurance and pay cash. What's your experience? Mac Everything you said is true Mac. I make my living with TMD patients that are sick and tired of ineffective treatment. HI Marc and westersund, I
August 11, 2025
TMD and Occlusion
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not know what they dont know. Anyone here not invest in the US and her productivity/economy will sit on the sidelines wishing they were in. Wynn will sell annuities guaranteed to an old lady at %4 while her monies in hand of insurance agent will earn at %9 annualized. Dont be that old lady
July 16, 2025
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disease for professional and financial reasons. Some of these patients are easy to deal with but some could be a little corky. Without the right mentality these patients can get on our nerves which causes stress. 2. Sometimes we do not get paid for our hard work when insurance deny our claims which
November 07, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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300 crowns $45 per crown So roughly a $45-50 per crown fee increase ... which sounded reasonable Now 75% of our patients are PPOs (no delta) Do you offer same-day crowns as an optional convenience upgrade ? Are there any best practices or compliance pitfalls to be aware of when dealing insurances? I
January 12, 2026
CEREC Forum
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noted that BlackRock is no longer just an asset manager; it is a systemic pillar. CEO Larry Fink emphasized that 2026 marks the first year the firm operates as a "unified platform," integrating its Aladdin technology more deeply into the institutional framework of global pension funds and insurance
January 23, 2026
Personal Finance
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to do this... In May of 2024 I did this thread Is digital dentistry "good enough" Here we are a year and 7 months later and I'm still doing it...I'm not sharing a lot of my work, as Tom(strategy milling) is milling my crowns/inlays/onlays for me...I spent a lot of last year on insurance issues
January 27, 2026
Fixed Prosthodontics
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average younger dentist so I get your point, Bob's point, the same point that others have made here. It's not wrong. But due to the increasingly higher cost of entry (education debt, practice/equipment debt, office real estate), declining insurance reimbursement and purchasing power of the patient
December 12, 2025
Retirement Planning
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worldly possessions and having no idea what I would do. I get all the planning, but I also think strict planning means you miss out on opportunities that come up along the way. I'm remembering now that Kenny was getting grief here for working PT after his sale to maintain his health insurance maybe
December 14, 2025
Retirement Planning
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years and then a better school for the last 2 years. I went to "metropolitan state college of denver" my 1st 2 years. I don't remember the exact per-credit cost. I think maybe about 250$/credit plus books and some fees, I do specifically remember it costing about 1k/year for student health insurance. I
February 18, 2026
Financing School and Loan Repayment
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-dentist ratio may also have weak staffing, low fee tolerance, limited specialists, poor insurance mix, and a lifestyle your family hates by month six. A wealthy suburb may look perfect until you realize it has ten polished PPO offices, two DSOs, three orthodontists, a pediatric dentist on every corner
May 03, 2026
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in the room. This guy will soon be practicing dentistry in another state. I would think the malpractice insurance carriers just might maintain a national database of those that they insure. How does that work? Multi million dollar settlements do get everyone's attention. Has an appeal been filed yet? We
May 04, 2026
Dentistry In The News
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far its... 1) Faux unpaid internship at private equity trying to help them form DSO's 2) Chatgpt write a book titled "Is Your Dentist Lying to You?" and having it posted on a Dental forum So next up has to be something in the realm of either Delta dental insurance claim reviewer or State commission
May 05, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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it the past few weeks. Should be ready today. As for Gerald, he wrote a Filipino cookbook. He's also currently working for insurance companies on how to deny claims from dentists. Update: I'll be giving bass 1 to my wife's coworker, a middle school teacher. She's pretty thrilled to have her own bass. I
May 15, 2026
Art
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in the passing lane should be pulled over and pistol-whipped as they drive by the "slower traffic keep left" and "left lane for passing only" signs. :) On the same page here. I remember when I was the "new guy" in town(1974) and I how built something from nothing without ever signing an insurance
May 08, 2026
Retired and Soon to be Retired Dentist's Forum
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if they want that profit margin. We're doomed You must not take PPOs then. Dentists have figured out how to run lean. But we can't run lean enough to share 50% or more of our profit with a home office. No amount of supply savings or special insurance reimbursements make up for that. This is it. In dentistry
May 29, 2026
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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in a prophy mill with over 3000 active patients of my own and 10's of thousands of active patients company wide in an insurance environment that is a 30 year old practice Lots of other loser dentists have been through my company, I've been there longer than any of them, I'm literally the the last
June 02, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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VERY quickly as nobody will pay on the way out the door and insurance reimbursement is very low such that the OP will not make any money. Oh, absolutely... sure. However, i seem to recall the OP question being about something else entirely... Thanks to both of you. Both the clinical and business
August 25, 2025
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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, the bond market is 20 trillion larger than the stock market. I'm not sure I would dismiss bonds so quickly. If you think I'm going to get the desire to travel out of my system, you've scrolled past most of my posts over the past 20 years I agree. And, insurance. If I am liquidating my bullion, something
October 21, 2025
Retirement Planning
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not just on the student. Thats a system built to take advantage of them. They sell a dream supported by nothing. DSOs and insurance companies need troops. They support selling that dream. The young people are smart but if you keep hammering that a Mercedes and a mansion awaits you, and here how you can
July 09, 2025
Dentistry In The News
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insurance to cover loss of rental with your policy. If a hurricane comes, you hire a public adjuster. You will get paid for no rentals and public adjuster will fight for money and in the end you can come ahead with a newer and better house + rental income. We bought a condo next to the vegas strip
December 19, 2025
Leisure
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go where their insurance is accepted. Sure, some will pay more for better service but at some point there wont be enough of them to fill all private practice chairs. Not only that, like you said corp offices are disguised as private so they wont know what they are walking into. How many office
November 06, 2025
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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intend to sell it because I think it would count it twice. With Health/Medicare I just listed my current insurance premiums since they are significantly more than Medicare, but will have to double check what the software does at 65. With Roth conversions if you scroll down the overview page I think
October 29, 2025
Retirement Planning
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until you remember they run insurance systems covering tens of millions of lives and billions in claims. Dentists noted that calling this corruption without reading the Form 990 is like diagnosing a lesion without a radiograph. The ADA lands in the same category. It is nonprofit, but its executive
January 26, 2026
General Discussions
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specialists only get discounted 15-20% on their procedures across the board from insurance, so you get way higher PPO reimbursement if you play the PPO game. OS is good if you can grind out tons of 3rds, but it takes 6 years of school. If you are going to specialize, do endo if you are actually good
September 17, 2025
Practice Start-Up
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to care and allows overhead expenses to be subsidized. I'd also probably charge for advertising on the vans lol On a separate note, many hygienists who tried to go independent hit a wall when insurance companies refused to recognize them as providers. A few contract with them, but the majority don't
March 15, 2026
Hygiene Discussions
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, SmileDirectClub teamed up with CVS Health to place hundreds of SmileShops inside CVS pharmacies. That move made the concept feel mainstream. Now you could imagine straightening your teeth in the same building where you bought shampoo and picked up a prescription. The company also gained insurance
March 19, 2026
Legal Issues
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for telemedicine. Some large insurance company bought it and offers it to their patients now. He gets paid $16-20-$40 a patient depending on times and days (holidays more). He made 40k off this in Jan -- I know b/c I saw the ledger. I sat next to him drinking beers and said that I wanna see it in action
March 27, 2026
Residencies, AEGDs and GPRs
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realize the owner was being forced to retire. That sucks. but in theory the new owner would hire an associate of their own that would produce what they were. Or keep all the production to themselves. They didn't. But they didn't pay property insurance, taxes, fix the HVAC, etc. Neither does
April 01, 2026
Practice Start-Up
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bid for a house in CT. Their mortgage/property tax/insurance for the property? Right around 8K/month. You're fine. Control spending. Increase payments to your debt. How many years do you have left on your mortgage? This is excellent. 12 more years on mortgage but whatever is left owing when I sell
May 24, 2026
Practice Sales
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to order it as a provider for around 300 I believe. From what I understand between the two Hyalunoric acid shots, this one which insurance does not cover is the better one. The other one is supposed to be less effective. I thought I heard the doc said something about 70% improve. PRP is also very good and recommended too. I am not exactly sure how their mechanisms are different.
September 02, 2025
Leisure
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not an apples to apples comparison as the scheme involved buying some insane amount of life insurance. Things that sound too good to be true are almost exactly that. It may all be on the up and up but the expenses to accomplish the plan may also be a factor. Keep us updated. This is exactly what it is. You
October 27, 2025
Retirement Planning
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home insurance and medical supplies. In 1994, he was quoted in the Journal on helping a Canadian coffee chain develop U.S. franchises. That year, prosecutors seized bank accounts and alleged Sklarov was a mastermind in an $18 million Medicare fraud, related to companies billing for surgical dressings
July 27, 2025
Politics
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$35K, insurance/healthcare spending at a little over $20K, Catholic school around $26K, and groceries/restaurants/wine at around $30K. If it's something they can afford? Sure. At least as much as them having their own horse farm, no? Different values for different people is all. When my 23 and 25
November 30, 2025
Retirement Planning
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that others feel very differently. That every extra day is special. Not me. With medicaid? Nada. My grandparents had it. Many of my older relatives too. My wife worked for several insurance companies that managed this. I can't speak to memory care facilities, but if you have medicaid in our state
December 04, 2025
Retirement Planning
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gross in their lifetime- according to chatgpt. their debt alone for house practice and education will most likely surpass their net. dont forget about how much it costs to raise kids. they have ruined their life financially and will be in debted to insurance companies and banks forever. sad. life
February 16, 2026
Financing School and Loan Repayment
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month and once the doctor played this game with them, they started getting there. It's important to have the written policy and talk with them about how you need them there and they need to know you mean it. As I'm typing this I remember one practice owner putting the insurance coordinator
April 16, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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pocket is. Her insurance estimate is vague. Life happens. Her kid has a game, her boss adds a meeting, her car battery dies, or she just decides today is not the day. Then she tells you she 'forgot.' She did not forget. She deprioritized. That distinction matters because it changes how you fix
May 06, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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Ive been the owner. c. Insurance payments are slower due to being OON and we get paid less. d. Ive also indirectly decreased fees e.Ive had a lot of patients leave after meeting me. patients left because of the poor transition or they didnt like my bedside manner. f.Stress also came from
August 30, 2025
Dental Students
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on here is because people just don't see it because it's a losing strategy. I guess only time will tell. at the end of the day- I want every dentist to be retired and happily out of the mouth and not dealing with insurance. There's different ways to skin a cat. when the data is at your fingertips- it's
October 11, 2025
Retirement Planning
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of myself for spell simultaneously correctly W/O spell check. Hell, I don't know whether to worry about the fact or not. Since I have some of both I'm just scratchin my head saying WTF. It is tougher now to replicate the same success compares to 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. Inflation, insurance, etc
January 09, 2026
Retirement Planning
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