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. Paid cash that day lol. sounds similar to the insurance denials I get regarding recommended treatment - chewing isn't a medical necessity but please keep paying your insurance premiums to have all your benefits denied.I could see attorneys defending dentist using this argument. your client didn't need
September 26, 2018
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of patients who have come to the end of their days. People grow a lot when faced with their own mortality, the anonymous nurse writes on . She says the emotional changes a dying person experiences are phenomenal, ranging from denial to remorse, fear to anger and eventually acceptance. When she
March 29, 2016
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, it fits the narrative that these are launching from sea-based vessels So if that is the case, I only see 1 reason why we aren't dealing with it. The current administration doesn't know how to deal with it. You can't go shooting down scores of drones above residential areas. I think the denial
December 14, 2024
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of patients who have come to the end of their days. People grow a lot when faced with their own mortality, the anonymous nurse writes on EmpowerNetwork.com. She says the emotional changes a dying person experiences are phenomenal, ranging from denial to remorse, fear to anger and eventually
August 03, 2014
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This is what a gorilla going to the dentist looks like: Gorillas... they're just like us! My brother GP DDS did some of this for a large metropolitan zoo years ago. They wanted a DDS to work with the vets. I think he worked with the large cats also. Edit to add he is retired now but a former...
May 01, 2023
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i feel his pain. fortunately i'm 35 years into this gig and financially set. aetna and guardian aer bottom feeders, and the dentists who work for them are a joke to our profession!. hudson is an upscale community. white collar, wealthy community. You can blame the insurance companies
October 13, 2025
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communication is a lifeline in this age. And wireless bandwidth is extremely valuable and a precious commodity. So to allow some Focker to go and broadcast and hog the bandwidth while disrupting all users and agencies is truly criminal. Kind of like theft, trespass and denial of service attack all in one.You
May 02, 2014
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and they have 1 star reviews of people accusing them of killing their relatives. Then I realize the Karen that is mad they had to pay their $50 deductible for their once every 5 years PANO because of THEIR INSURANCE is just a relatively small, cheap piece of shit 1 star complaint. I also reply in the style
April 16, 2026
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Someone does something about it. Daly City Dentist Accused Of Arms Trafficking In Scandal Involving Leland Yee March 29, 2014 12:20 AM Offices of Dr. Wilson Lim, a Daly City dentist. (CBS) Related Tags: Andria Borba Andria Borba joined KPIX 5 in October 2013. Born...
March 29, 2014
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If You Live HERE, Get (Lots of) Insurance! If you live in Texas, you had best make sure your homeowner's insurance is up-to-date. Why? Texas has experienced more major disasters than any other state; specifically, the Lone Star State has been hit with at least one every calendar year. Over
February 07, 2014
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not about working hard. Work smart! Older docs all need to drop their participation, your work is worth more than that. I've done my part, have you? I have very good fee schedules. I don't like dental insurance but I make plenty of money. I'm on track to retire at 50-55, really depends on what I want
October 10, 2024
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I'm sure we're all shocked right. :( CNN)California's insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patients' records when deciding whether to approve or deny care. California
February 11, 2018
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insurance benefits, rather than treat each patient as an individual. The ACA will accelerate this disturbing trend. The ACA requires dental-care coverage for children through age 18. This expansion appears to be a good device for improving healthcare generally. Yet, as private health plans move
January 03, 2014
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Jeff Patton lost $3,300. Rochelle Therrien lost $400. Vessie Moore lost a whopping $14,000. They're a few of the people whose finances were destroyed by visiting Richard Nate Schott, the former dentist who pleaded guilty to swindling nearly $1 millionfrom insurance
May 30, 2019
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The real problem is that once insurance companies (in the guise of obamacare) entirely take over the health care industry, as a for profit industry, then the people actually doing all the work are the ones with no chance at the financial reward. The best and brightest will no longer go
August 27, 2014
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to a BCBS individual plan for medical insurance for my family. As part of the process, they are required to ask if you have pediatric dental coverage. At first, I clicked no to see what would happen. I was given options for dental plans through BCBS. They were similar to the ACA benefits I mentioned
December 09, 2014
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insurance, I phone insurance, expensive car insurance. Wait, they don't. So if they don't have dental insurance they can't access dental care. But they can access the tattoo parlor and the Apple store. I don't get it. It has nothing to do with the people needing dental care. This is all about money
September 18, 2015
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there are Ive always wondered at what point do some of the big corporations get into self funded medical. Obviously dental cost and medical cost are completely different things but if the insurance company can make that much money then why not the corporations do it themselves or even have groups
July 21, 2022
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have health insurance is one thing, whether you have dental insurance is another. Your doctor doesn't ask you if you're flossing, and your dentist doesn't ask you if you're exercising. In America, we treat the mouth separately from the rest of the body, a bizarre situation that Mary Otto explores
June 11, 2019
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practices would skyrocket like some of those old dot... 2054: Mrs. Jones, your annual insurance max is $1000.00. Sounds good to me. Then we could work from the beach via iPhone50. Lol. Those cheap bastards at the ins. companies will make sure this is going to happen. But it should still be You
August 03, 2014
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Dean, for decades, providers and insurance companies co-existed peacefully, both realizing it was a symbiotic relationship. It was almost civil In your mind, what and why do you think it changed and now resembles a mother feeding on it's own offspring?Alan, it began with physicians in the 1980's
August 27, 2014
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is a respected financial advisor who taught at Columbia. He said tongue in cheek if you want to be rich then major in finance. Many can become money managers for mutual funds. These money managers make as much money as professional sport athletes without headaches of malpractice issues, insurance
August 25, 2014
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this spring, made a pit stop in Las Vegas to pick up a friend, and kept heading south, all the way to Los Algodones, Mexico, a small border town teeming with dental offices. About 60 percent of Americans have dental insurance coverage, the highest it has been in decades. But even so, the nation's
August 10, 2015
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Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is mad as hell. American health care is in upheaval. On one side, overhead and malpractice insurance costs keep increasing, while salaries stagnate. On the other, patients believe that expensive drugs are better, more people are on government-run insurance that pays less, while
August 24, 2014
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the procedure; 2. We need to possess the skill to perform the procedure. There are a lot of people who need fillings, endo, crown or extraction and can potentially afford it because most PPO insurance covers those procedures. Much less pt needs implant and even less can pay for it in a crowded
October 02, 2024
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? Or the issue of can I have a discount, I don't have insurance as well as I have insurance, do I have to pay my portion?. I can only conclude that society at large is fearless when it comes to bargaining while disparaging at the same time. It was interesting.
March 20, 2014
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answer, right? So, if it is so obvious, WTF is our so called profession doing about it? Watcha all bitchin about? America is the land of free speech. Some uneducated moron posted his uneducated view. What I am way more worried about is that the mega insurance providers now have their own
August 31, 2017
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on home sales. Yummy No more deficit:) Until. It will multiply quickly. Does single payor model means that private Insurances will disappear and then there will be only one crappy dental insurance for all ? There will always be a cstegory of higher end folks who might have greater benefitsfor
July 30, 2024
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. No insurance? No problem. Need a lab test on a Sunday? Sure thing. Walmart care hosts take customers from the waiting area to one of 12 care rooms in the 6,500-square-foot facility. Afterward, patients are steered to the in-store pharmacy. While they wait for their prescriptions, they can visit
February 28, 2020
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to get a job or buy a practice than promised, insurances are WAY more of a PIA than described in school, etc etc - Don't get me wrong, love being a dentist, wouldn't choose anything else. But it wasn't what I was promised or described based on the 1990/early 2000s dentistry reports. SO extrapolate
June 14, 2017
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states?? It says that the patients will schedule online. Since they are not taking any insurance, it sounds like they are planning on eliminating the need for front desk business assistants. This saves about 8 percent off of a dental office overhead. Minimal staff and orib aren't really paying rent
April 08, 2022
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dentist. He takes medicaid as well as other insurances, pretty strong buying power in their patient base. Medicaid in their state pays fees that would shock majority of dentists. State is not saturated with dentists. Anyways, he reaches out often to me and my other buddy for advice on business
January 22, 2022
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American dentistry. At the very least, the ADA could have suggested,buyer beware. Once again, the ADA has thrown us under the bus. We don't need no steenkin' insurance! Of course, there is an agenda afoot. There is a narrative being promulgated by the media and politicians. The first is that people need so
September 27, 2020
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are burdened more by non-medical business or insurance professionals without any medical training. It's disheartening. I have transitioned to more part-time clinical work so as to focus more on speaking, writing and consulting. Become a full-time consultant, author, speaker, entrepreneur, baker
August 19, 2018
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, and the health insurance program that serves members of the armed forces, retired service members and their families. The allegations include claims that those charged billed the programs for unnecessary drugs that were never purchased or never given to the patients.
July 13, 2017
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unemployment fraud. The Labor Department reported about $87 billion in unemployment benefits could have been paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud. The Secret Service said it has seized more than $1.2 billion while investigating unemployment insurance and loan fraud and has
December 23, 2021
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will the banks and insurance companies...Are people having children without getting married? Lol! Is it really still 1980 where you live? I wanna move there. Quote: NileDDS Lol! Is it really still 1980 where you live? I wanna move there. ______________________-----------------------------------Yo no se
September 15, 2014
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If everyone could please take a moment and pray for fellow Dental Professionals located in the Baton Rouge, La. area. This picture is from one of my best friends from Dental School. His office received 4 feet of water inside, and unfortunately he didn't have flood insurance since Baton Rouge
August 18, 2016
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prophy. Even have a tx plan of 99k(this was more comprehensive plan to be fair) from western dental. There is an office down the street that has been doing cleaning, charging the insurance 4 quad scrp (no anesthetic) and telling the patient that there isn't a co-pay for them. From what I've seen
May 24, 2022
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liability insurance. Where did this entitled to phrase get started???? When you get down to it is anybody entitled to anything???? Unless, that money is coming from the perpetrator.....no. The only way I could see it happening otherwise is if someone wascriminallynegligent in providing a safe
April 13, 2023
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than the national average, according to the 12th annual Allstate America's Best Drivers Report. Boston ranked at the bottom of a list of the 200 largest U.S. cities, according to Allstate insurance claims, earning it the dubious title of the home of the nation's worst drivers. Compare
September 16, 2017
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have for telling us we are in a recession work by looking at data from months/quarters past. Now what's got me worried is our office has started seeing a downturn this year. I've asked around most of the other cash offices have seen a downturn as well. Insurance offices not so much. Now this might
June 02, 2024
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was found in the molar of an ancient Egyptian, and is believed to be the first filling material...Custom carved Mammoth tusk? Sure it was but of course the insurance company down graded it to amalgam!Italian scientists discover first Stone Age dentist. A group of Italian scientists have published
December 26, 2016
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. There are many other changes to the external environment of dentistry. Labor, proactive marketing, increase in importance and costs of technology , declining insurance reimbursements, regulation, cost of education, and cost to equip a new office. All these things impact that equation. Many are adapting. Many
January 17, 2022
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The public is being led by PR firms, such as Oral Health America, which is being backed by some of the major dental companies in the world, and, DMSOs. The exec direct of of the DMSO org is a consultant for teledentistry. And of course, dental schools are all over this, as are insurance cos
December 23, 2016
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, they came from a different office and complained to the insurance company and the insurance completely refunded them (and since there was no copay the dentist was SOL), then came to us. So as of like last week I started charging a small portion to help cover the lab bill. Just saw
March 17, 2022
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was a quarter of the price I pay in Australia (and that is without any insurance in Japan!). A quick google search confirms what my friend told me: there are in Japan. 1.5 times the number in fact. For anyone who has been to Japan and seen the number of convenience stores, this is shocking. No wonder
January 02, 2014
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of the insurances took it as an oppurtunity to either freeze fees or worse yet cut fees, it can still be a very rewarding profession but you defintiely need to be on top of everything and constantly think outside of the box. IF you are flexible and will go anywhere to set up shop you gold, if you stuck
January 13, 2022
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the state’s public schools, to require malpractice insurance for doctors and to curb welfare fraud. A proponent of nuclear power, he established a research institute to develop ideas for furthering energy production in the state. He was succeeded by a Democrat, Richard W. Riley, but four
December 27, 2014
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and the players delivered milk or sold insurance in the off season. Too much money in sports, as we experience societal breakdown ........so I guess the genie is out of the bottle and you can't unwind the clock.
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