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LISTENING skills - TECHNOLOGY impacts on the front desk you need to know - 3 Rules for your front desk PHONE SKILLS - How to answer the big question... “do you take my insurance” - Which GREETING SKILLS most offices FAIL TO USE…and how
December 10, 2015
by OpenADentalOffice
Podcast
married and I had a long … about 2003, I had a pretty bad motorcycle accident which ended up having to quit practicing dentistry, sold my practice. Fortunately, I was covered with disability insurance as every dentist should be, but after selling my practice my wife said, “Hey, you can move
December 27, 2015
by howard
Podcast
functions, independent practicing, all those hot political topic buttons? Linda Douglas : They were originally mandated to improve access to care for ... there are still sections of the community, a significant number of people who don't have dental insurance and particularly the elderly and also
December 10, 2015
by howard
Podcast
is between an HMO and a PPO and why you take them and how they work for you? Dr. Letran: Well, an HMO is what we call capitation and so the office get a certain amount of money per head every month. Then you are assigned a certain number of patients. The PPO are the insurances where you sign up and you
December 08, 2015
by howard
Podcast
of Heartland Dental. He was doing another genius thing which I recommend. He was calling the insurance companies and saying, Okay, you see dental insurance to everybody in the great state of Illinois. Do you ever get complaints from the people with the insurance that say there's no dentist provider
December 14, 2015
by howard
Podcast
in production there’s going to be fee adjustments right off the top. Those are going to be insurance-related, other discounts like senior citizens, professional courtesies and you have collections. From your collections, if you’re doing a good job collecting over the counter you’re going
December 03, 2015
by howard
Podcast
years or, one had luckily, health insurance, and got the $100,000 coronary artery bypass graft. The other twin didn't have insurance, because you know 50 million Americans didn't have insurance the last several decades, but changed their ... You know quit smoking, lost weight, started exercising, you
December 13, 2015
by howard
Podcast
the questions are, Well, how much is it going to cost? and Will my insurance pay? and Can I make payments? and Care Credit, and all that. Then, when we get done with that, then it switches to pain: Well, am I going to get a shot? Is it going to hurt? Can you give me laughing gas? Can you put me to sleep
December 22, 2015
by howard
Podcast
information system is they can’t make you a statement of income, a statement of cash flow. They can’t do payroll, they do all the insurance and billing and all the CRM and everything. They don’t know their costs so these dentists are signing up for 10 different insurance plans
December 16, 2015
by howard
Podcast
people just- Howard: What dental companies are there? Sirona is there. Matthew: Sirona is here. KaVo Kerr group is here. CEREC is here, Comet, rotary insurance like Byrd's is here. Drake Dental Labs is here. Who just moved here? It escaped me the name of the company, it'll come to me. There's
December 11, 2015
by howard
Podcast
, so in our sense, we live in this bubble that doesn't really exist anymore for me, coming out, people are not building practices like that anymore. It's all insurance-based and all that kind of stuff, so I think he's scared about that, that you just have to see hygiene patients every half hour
December 23, 2015
by howard
Podcast
might have a little problem being the founder of the product. We probably could swing it though. Tom: You know what we end up doing . . . Howard: Because, we have two issues going on. The insurance companies really haven't raised our fees. Tom: No, no. Hogo: We're allowed to do training videos, so
December 31, 2015
by howard
Podcast
current patients. It's also really good for one time, if you get any new hardware, if you get a new Cerec machine, you can tell them about it from an email blast so it allows you to send information to your patients very easily. If the end of the insurance year is coming up, you want to get people
December 09, 2015
by howard
Podcast
teeth that the Americans pull, whereas the Americans, insurance covers it 100%, they just pull everyone’s wisdom teeth. I’m a victim of this. I’m 53, so the first time I went to the doctor with a sore throat, they yanked my tonsils and adenoids out. They pulled everybody’s
December 17, 2015
by howard
Podcast
: They were born with cellphones in their hands, and they look upon it in a very different way. I think that also the insurance systems are changing, patient's demands, patients want their treatments faster. Somebody shouldn't use this technology in dentistry where it's used in so many other areas
December 21, 2015
by howard
Podcast
individual piece of mail. It's got your message on it there. The big things are that you put up no red lights to your patients. We accept all insurances. We work with all insurances. We do. If an insurance company will talk and pay for us, if an HMO won't work with us, we've worked with them and gone
December 04, 2015
by howard
Podcast
are money, money, money. How much is it? Will my insurance pay? Will Care Credit finance it? Can I make payments? Half the issues is money. After money, I see it switches to pain. Do I have to get a shot? Do you have nitrous oxide? Can you put me to sleep? Then it probably moves ... What is it going
December 26, 2015
by howard
Podcast
or something. It was always for homework for the kids. Tom: I thought you were going to say that they got the internet because they had to do insurance processing through the internet which is certainly true for dental offices. That drove a lot. Back to about Demandforce, once the dentists had their high
December 01, 2015
by howard
Podcast
seldom makes the appointment for the kids. When Dad comes in you said I'm filling out your kid's insurance form, when was your kid born? He never knows. If you say When your kid was born, was there a Christmas tree or a pumpkin or a ... You know, they have no idea. It's a woman industry, really
December 05, 2015
by howard
Podcast
, if you could let me out in an hour that'd be awesome. No one cares about it. The other thing I keep, that irritates me that I keep hearing about is same day crown, same day crown, same day crown. Are you deaf? When I listen to patients it's always, How much is it? Will my insurance pay? Are you going
December 30, 2015
by howard
Podcast
. If I could bump that to fifty, it wouldn't cost any more rent, mortgage, equipment bill 00:10:11, computer insurance, no more staff, it'd be nothing but net. I just want twenty more new patients a month. What would you tell them? Would social media be a part of that mix? Batya: Absolutely. Absolutely
December 28, 2015
by howard
Podcast
at it. Like you were saying, let's look at the Komet deal. Just to throw percentages out there, you can save 60% on your diamonds, you know what I mean?? That is a crazy amount of money on something that you use every single day. Howard: And you can save 15% on your car insurance if every time you wreck
December 12, 2015
by howard
Podcast
for you, or will destroy you by fear that you're going to be replaced and that's what's happening. There's two classes. Basically what I think, there will be a fast, productive, like a Walmart of dentistry which is fast, insurance-based, and managed care and laboratories that going to that trap
December 18, 2015
by howard
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