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. They want to hook you on a subscription. In their eyes you can never have too much protection aka insurance... Most are the type of dentist who you just want your prophy and exam with a toothbrush but you are being forced into fluoride laser and irrigation... I think it sounds more like 4Q SCRP because
May 27, 2026
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at it. I guess they haven't gotten to you yet. More and more insurance companies are sending flat denials on things because they dont have an attached radiograph. Class V on #9? no PA no pay. This is what I thought she would be talking about. AI will be in the hands of insurance companies to decide
May 19, 2025
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for resubmission or denials. I think almost every insurance company I have worked with now has the ability to use digital attachments via NEA which is the industry leader for attachments. Whether it is perio charting, narratives, EOBs or dental x-rays, you do a screen capture of the data
November 21, 2021
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my head. We work with practices on the billing and insurance side, and one thing I'd suggest before switching PMS is looking closely at how the ledger and insurance workflow function day to day. The server cost with Dentrix is definitely something a lot of offices want to move away from
March 17, 2026
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for a while working from here. Most of the day it's customers bitchin about an internet that is under major Denial of service attacks, yet they blame their software. I was seeing up to 230-240 MBPS prior to all the attacks. Now it is more like 50 with all the bad guy traffic. Lorne, what sort of speed
May 20, 2020
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, all you’ll get would be resistance, skepticism or denial (a straight no in your face). Remember, it will take time and patience. Not all HIPAA Security implementations can be done at the same time or right away. We techs need to hear the other party and help them make the right decisions
February 18, 2015
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normal...except, your friend actually was in violation of HIPAA. According to HHS, they consider a ransomware infection to be a breach: (item #6). So, he really should have contacted his patients, the HHS While having cyberliability insurance is always a good thing (we provide a $500,000 policy
December 19, 2018
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Gosh, the paperless office has so many scanning needs! We already have an old flatbed and a sheetfed duplex scanner, but I would like a compact dedicated scanner up front just to scan the front and back of insurance cards, as well as driver's licenses. I have seen these at physicians' offices
August 11, 2015
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We had a pipe burst in our office and caused a lot of water damage. One of the items up for dispute are the replacement of our computers. Me and my IT company think they should be replaced, but my insurance company is pushing back a bit.All of our Admin workstations and our Server sit directly
January 27, 2023
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of major insurance company that owns a large insurance claims clearinghouse. United Healthcare is going to get a slap in the wrist for the Change Healthcare hack; any office that would have a comparable breach would have a much larger fine relative to the size of our business Doesn't matter how
May 24, 2024
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Im looking to purchase a scanner that has slots to specifically scan driver licenses and insurance cards and also one that can scan regular paper (EOBs) that we recieve from insurance. Any suggestions? Thanks. Fujitsu Scansnap
May 21, 2014
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ago. we paid the rep to set it up in the new office(calibration, etc). we paid a local moving company to move it. I hand carried the sensor myself. the reason we used the local moving company was they had insurance. If something was to break their insurance would have covered it. I dont remember the total cost but it was not unreasonable. Thanks! Great advice. Was the sensor pretty easy to take off yourself? Ben
July 25, 2021
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, Probst said. Healthcare providers and insurers must publicly disclose data breaches affecting more than 500 people, but there are no laws requiring criminal prosecution. As a result, the total cost of cyber attacks on the healthcare system is difficult to pin down. Insurance industry experts say
September 26, 2014
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Looking for advice on best way to go paperless. Our office is down to medical history form and patient insurance policies still in paper forum. Our office uses Eaglesoft. What additional software/hardware is needed to make this happen ? Looking for suggestions and resources . Admin Edit due to self
March 10, 2020
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the upgrade that includes AI summaries. You can search by keywords for a patient name or term, for example cancel or insurance or Delta to find relevant calls without listening to every one. You will learn SO much by listening to your team handle calls - I can't state this emphatically enough. Said
April 24, 2025
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a folder for Pt pics by Last Name. More comprehensive cases, for example, I have the pt's pre-tx pics, then progress pics so I can find them. Often, I transfer those into their Dexis file, too, so they're available at pt visits. That includes pics cropped and labeled to submit for insurance. (I like IrfanView for that. Free software for PCs.) Most modern camera bodies have built in blue tooth and wifi to transfer photos straight to a computer.
September 10, 2023
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software (insurance cards, drivers licenses)and alsoserve as afax machine. Then you can get a high quality printer to make your printed documents look better. Being on ring central also allows you to avoid having company send advertisements of your fax machine, it also keeps a record of what you
January 31, 2015
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Lately I've been in a couple of medical offices, mostly group offices, and the norm is for them to have a kiosk for the patient to go through their patient information and then have their insurance card scanned by the kiosk. I'm sure this integrates with their software also. Is anything like
February 08, 2021
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The business next door to me just went through a ransomware incident. They are not a dental office. They are a medical testing service--the kind where if you need an insurance physical, they set you up for it. They had 280 gig of data and someone in China hacked into their system and encrypted
March 31, 2014
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expensive either--reliable, medium price. Any suggestions? We've always had good luck with the Epson DS-510: Around $275 on Amazon, TWAIN compliant, fast, and durable. Hope this helps.Grazi!...We recently purchased the smallerFujitsu ScanSnap S1300ifor my insurance gal and she loves it. She regularly scans in 1-3 pages or so and hasn't had a problem at all with it in the month we've owned it.
June 30, 2016
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I just ordered a new desktop scanner and had some questions about installation. It will be hooked up to 1 workstation in the front office area and will be used to scan in NP paperwork, IDs, insurance EOBs, etc. 1) Do I need to install it on my server so it will be on the entire network, or do I
February 09, 2019
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I've been paperless the past 9 years and get DELL laptops for the operatories. I have had to replace some due to batteries. they don't charge anymore and I either have to buy new ones or get new batteries. I never trust warranties because it's like buying insurance: they don't want to pay nor fix
September 15, 2017
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can't scan duplex pages. only one side scanning. We generally print double sided and many of our insurance EOBs are printed on both side. Is there a work around this with ADS-1500W to make it work seamlessly with OpenDental? Does the Epson printer has duplex scanning? Yeah, it seems like
March 02, 2022
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and we used a dot matrix printer to print out the claim form to mail to insurance. The previous owner trained his patients to bring a stamped envelope with the insurance company address written on it. All we did was print the ADA claim form and sign it and put it in the envelope. Total Recall
January 30, 2018
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open patient paper chart, Patient Gallery xrays on the work station and go to work. Office manager has to read the paper chart and post into Open Dental for bills and insurance claims.Al please tell us what your server/workstation set up is, including maintenance and backup protocol.I love my paper
October 02, 2019
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with medical cases and millions of pages of research papers. The program also went through several sessions with doctors, being corrected whenever it gave a wrong answer. Watson graduated from its medical residency in 2013, becoming available for doctors and health insurance companies shortly after. IBM
February 02, 2017
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to replace two sensors during that time. I'm assuming that newer sensors are more dependable as the technology has advanced(perhaps I assume too...Why not just put the sensors on your insurance instead of extending the warranty?Many of those extended warranties provide an overnight loaner sensor
December 01, 2016
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warranty or insurance when you're at best buy. I'd say you're probably throwing money down the drain, but who knows. If the company truly does stay on top of it feeding you reports on usage, top sites visiting, outgoing dns requests, IDS and malware detection logs, incoming and outgoing connections
June 16, 2016
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What scanner do you recommend for scanning documents into Dentrix? Also - insurance cards and Drivers Licenses? We are looking to update/upgrade and make the scanning process a more efficient use of our time. Thanks for your thoughts. http://www.amazon.com/Canon-imageFORMULA-DR-2010C-Document
March 10, 2014
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a 2nd line to my wireless carrier and use that phone # as failover route. It also gives me the option to give the phone to one of the staff in case they stay home and want to do some insurance calls. And all that costs $20/month plus cost of a...
September 13, 2017
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and extra cordless handset that links to that desk phone. So I can keep the handset in near lab and FD/DA does not have to run to desk to pick up the call, if they are in the back. They can also just clip it to their waist and with a headset, keep on waiting on Insurance reps while doing something else
January 12, 2018
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and exposed to high risk. I could go and get bare minimum car insurance, I could drive for years and have nothing ever happen. But I'm exposed to much greater risk as a result. A server is a device that house all of your practice data. Billing, Charts, Xrays, Scheduling, etc. It'll run for probably 5 years
September 06, 2016
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you see more problems, is if you're using Win 7 with Server 2012 (Softdent I'm lookn' at you!) But 7 and 10 are fine. You can find systems with downgrade rights, then you have some insurance. What software are you running? You also need to make sure your sensors, IO cameras and other peripherals
July 13, 2018
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I will be getting all new computers next week, and I told my IT guy I don't want anyone on the internet except my office mgr when doing business related things such as checking insurance benefits. He said, No, you do not want to do that, as you would have a riot on your hands. I told him I don't
January 02, 2020
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blocking. As I and others mentioned, you're not getting a lot for the price you're paying. There's no risk assessment, no HIPAA management plan, no breach insurance, no policies and procedures manual, no patch management, no staff training, etc. You're paying a lot and not getting what many other bundled
July 12, 2019
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still use film, but I closed on my 3rd practice the other day (which is a merge with my first practice), and am moving into that space. There is a digital pano already there, and adding phosphor plates happen eventually, and that could easily be a couple years away. I simply refuse to get into the sensor cycle of repairs/insurance/breakdown etc. I'm just not doing it.
October 11, 2019
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such as drivers licenses, insurance cards, list of medications, etc. You can also use the camera to take patient profile pictures which is automatically uploaded into your PMS without any steps! PS: Sorry for the bad formatting. It was hard to format with basic HTML.
June 16, 2016
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? No, not really...but then again, most people have car insurance even though they've never been in an accident. Not sure if I could justify the risk when the computer really is due for replacement anyway, but that's just me. Hope this helps.Just buy some cheap lenovo all in ones on amazon, plug and play
February 19, 2014
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code BS later. You may also get a break on your fire insurance if you show them you're using plenum rated cable.I just ran the cable for my new office. I purchased it from monoprice. The plenum rated is about $350 per 1000 feet vs $150 or so. I needed 3000 feet to run around 30 drops. In the grand
February 14, 2017
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be no such thing as disability insurance or business interruption insurance as the carriers could argue that you can just schedule things in the future. Hope this helps. I don't fret over having to reschedule. However.. rescheduled production IS lost (unless your schedule is always half empty) An office
June 14, 2023
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. If you've seen the Matrix, I am the CHOSEN one. No, DSO. 2 doc box. It would seem the best way to protect your network is to not have it connected to the internet but then you lose functionality such as eclaims, insurance verification, email of records etc. Even if you have one dedicated computer
September 20, 2019
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is exactly right. Office 2013 is a $200 extra, so if you still need it, you're looking at around $850 per station but now you're getting i5's processors for the same price. Much better. Warranty is like insurance, until you've used it you can't stand paying for it. Sams club computers
March 09, 2015
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, then 3 other workstations. I have a separate computer that the office staff uses for email and internet stuff like accessing insurance websites and online ordering. This one is not attached to the rest of the workstations, but I guess uses the same internet connection (like I said, clueless
July 06, 2017
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package? Medix is $650. Dentaltown doesn't allow us to post fees on here. In almost all cases, it's challenging to compare apples to apples. For example, we provide services that in my experience many IT companies do not, such as a formal risk assessment, HIPAA management plan, cyberliability insurance
March 21, 2021
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getting ready to install them when I get a chance. They all have windows 10 pro installed. Buy new if you want, but I've had success with these types of computers. If one breaks, I got a backup ready to go. Cheap insurance for computers. I had a company set me up a server and such and now I pretty much
December 02, 2019
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to do electronic billing, less time spent on billingand I get the insurance money faster,better case presentation when Pts can see the tooth with camera and X-rays, and better work flow,etc as of film that I have now. Going back to my original question I think I got the answer. I
January 11, 2018
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will break - all the old overheated plastics, traces just waiting to separate from boards, etc. etc. There is a time for everything.... Agreed, but unless he is replacing the server in the next 10 minutes, replacing the fans is cheap insurance for the next week or two. A failed CPU fan is almost
September 25, 2017
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replaced my old HP at the office. I got the Epson Eco tank. I do use color when I print photos for insurance. I was able to use non HP cartridges. So far I like the Epson Eco. I use a Canon Pro 10 at home for my photos. 10 cartridges at about $14 a pop each. Prints up to 13x19. It costs a lot to feed it. I print and mount my wildlife photos to display at the office. See my photo? It looks stupid great at 13x19.
August 03, 2024
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should ban the internet altogether, as sometimes I need them to add items to the Patterson shopping cart, and my FD needs it for insurance purposes, and I need it for random business purposes. Twice now, at around 12:15, 20 minutes into lunch, I was working through the lunch hour and saw my hygienist
October 20, 2019
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% conversion, but you'll want to make sure balances and insurance plans and past treatment carry over. Honestly, although I'm biased, you should never work with an IT company that isn't exclusive to healthcare, let alone dental. Besides having familiarity with your software, there are numerous HIPAA
August 29, 2022
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