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, insurance, investing and how to live a good life. He is the Editor of the twice-monthly Collier Newsletter, which for close to a half-century has been providing cutting edge, unbiased and easy-to-implement legal, business and financial advice to dentists to help them become and retire wealthy
June 07, 2018
by howard
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Dr. Bryan Laskin addresses both the challenges and renovations within the dental industry regarding compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. He also looks at new ways to use those processes to create efficiencies in your practice. Why HIPAA Is Good For You Find uson iTunes!
June 05, 2018
by Bry
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, and hygienist Why is case acceptance not where it needs to be? Purchasing a practice - how long does it take existing patients to accept you? Cancelled appointments Is it you, or patient quality? Attracting the right patients Do you take my insurance? vs real dental questions Do you want patients who choose you because you are cheap or because of your dentistry? Promoting to the right half of the dental market
June 01, 2018
by Mark D
Podcast
the most about your business? Oh, I don't like all the PPOs, well what do you want to build? Because only half of America has dental insurance. You say I want to build the cash market. Okay, so you want to build the cash market, but 95% of all the crowns you did was at a PPO price of seven hundred
June 10, 2018
by howard
Podcast
supplies. For instance, if you go to Scottsdale, the richest area, and you go to West Phoenix, the poorest area, and you go buy a basket of goods, you go buy a gallon of gas, a gallon of milk, a Big Mac, a pack of cigarettes, all the prices are the same. But then the insurance companies will ensure
June 26, 2018
by howard
Podcast
week was in Idaho. He was talking about one in- You said- Rob: It was in Arizona. Howard: It was in Arizona. Rob: That was hilarious. And, Ryan was able to find one a week ago in Idaho. I was lecturing at the Dental Insurance Association... Rob: By the way, you're an amazing lecturer. I've
June 27, 2018
by howard
Podcast
better. 9:10 - A method Jesse uses to build value before, during and after the appointment. 13:00 - The importance of rebooking. 15:00 - A rebooking rate to aim for in your practice. 17:45 - 3 ways to maximize the revenue of a practice. 19:11 - Trends in consolidation and health insurance. 22:25 - Where
June 22, 2018
by drdavidphelps
Podcast
on advertising, depending on where they fall in those circumstances. Howard: I've always thought it was amazing that half of America has dental insurance and half doesn't. And you say, What do you charge for a crown? And they say a thousand bucks. But then they've signed up with like Delta dental
June 11, 2018
by howard
Podcast
. You just have to learn how to do it, it's one medical form. You can learn how to do this in a matter of hours and your auxiliary can do it and then it's out of sight, out of mind. You're just going to treat the patient and it gets billed. I collect upfront because you never know if the insurance
June 01, 2018
by howard
Podcast
of network with one insurance company or change your hours. HOWARD: Well, I don't think lot of people in dentistry and medicine realize how their success turned them into a commodity. I mean, you go back into, last century, you go back into the early 1900s, all the way to 1950 dentists, physicians
June 12, 2018
by howard
Podcast
, make it more affordable, accessible, price inaudible 00:56:44 elasticity you'll sell more. So whatever they love, they raise the price and do less and then here's what's the dumbest thing in dentistry. Half of America don't have dental insurance. You go into most of these dental offices and 85
June 23, 2018
by howard
Podcast
we have patients come in and do their work, there's always - unless it's a cleaning - some sort of out of pocket. I don't like to say copay because that's a medical term. There's some sort of out of pocket or patient responsibility. Then we send things off to insurance companies and a lot of times
June 20, 2018
by howard
Podcast
get a bad Yelp review- My last one was the lady comes in, she didn't want an X-ray, she just wanted to talk to me. I talked to her for an hour. Turns out she basically wants me to do it for insurance only. I said no, so then what did she do? She leaves and just rips me a new one on Yelp. I spent
June 11, 2018
by howard
Podcast
will say in that regard my top 10% of my dental clients as far as the successful ones versus the top ten 10% of my chiropractic clients by far, and the chiropractic clients that I work with are 100% cash, they don't accept insurance. The last nine years I practiced I didn't accept insurance, but I
June 01, 2018
by howard
Podcast
. That was it. Locked, couldn't move. Months on end. We tried an appliance and we knew she needed surgery, so she said, Look, I'm not paying Dr Gregory's fee, which is out of network for insurance. I'm going to find my own surgeon. So she calls Blue Cross, they got a list of eighteen TMJ surgeons is what
June 09, 2018
by howard
Podcast
: Yeah and the other thing, it takes your smile off your face. It makes them stressed. I mean, you have enough stress dealing with crazy patients. Crazy staff, crazy insurance companies. Last thing you need to do is be shooting yourself in the foot over a refund. But here's the consumer side. I want
June 04, 2018
by howard
Podcast
... if this is a female industry, which it is - thirty years I can vouch to you, if a guy like you walks out, I'd say, Hey Tyson, you've got five kids. I'm doing their insurance. Real quick, give me the birthdays of all five of those kids. It's like deer in a headlight. They don't know any
June 08, 2018
by howard
Podcast
lucrative dental insurance or a cash patient, they should grow every year. They should have less debt and grow earnings. It's kind of like the Internet days, where everybody would say, Well, how is your company going? Oh man, our page had two million hits. Really? Well, when you go to Starbucks, you
June 07, 2018
by howard
Podcast
. HOWARD: America they think they're number one, but they're number one in some things, they're not number one in making cars. The number one car makers are Germany and Japan, number one in education is in Scandinavia. But America is number one in healthcare, military, insurance, banking, finance
June 13, 2018
by howard
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called out that you wanted a strictly fee-for-service practice. What does that mean to a dental student? Jessica: That means that I'm out of network with all insurances, so my patients pay 100% upfront and we submit their claim electronically for them to get reimbursed directly. Howard: What
June 22, 2018
by howard
Podcast
for service. They're not insurance-driven. Those that want the cosmetic cases, they don't have any insurance. and then we've done, they've had been years before, they did it twenty years ago, they want new ones. They don't like the color, they don't like the way it looks anymore, so we redo those
June 14, 2018
by howard
Podcast
and was having a hard time and I was able to be there while he was going through some hard things. He bought a practice he shouldn't have purchased, got some bad advice and cut insurances maybe he shouldn't have, did a big remodel, was taking expensive CE courses, doing all the things that I've heard
June 22, 2018
by howard
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, because it's just not. There's nineteen shades of gray on that picture of what is Delta. Same with Medicaid. Chad: Yeah. Howard: So, I want to hold your feet to the fire on Medicaid. When you look at insurance data, it looks like a flatline heart attack with four big spikes on the four six-year
June 29, 2018
by howard
Podcast
a ton of followers online and opens up two doors down from you and all of a sudden he takes a number of insurances and he pulls out some of your patients from your practice. You don't have a lot of reviews. Then you have to react. I don't want you to be reactive. I want you to be proactive and being
June 20, 2018
by howard
Podcast
, yes. Howard: So, that was the one thing that I'm- So, Ed Zuckerberg, whose son is Mark Zuckerberg, one of the things we always talk about is in healthcare, it's like 93% of all the appointments are made by mom. Dad, I mean, when dad is coming out, if you say, Hey, I'm doing your daughter's insurance
June 04, 2018
by howard
Podcast
to be leaders and speaker four, informer. Often these people who have been burned by lack of information sometimes in their past or whose subject matter is complex but needs to be accessible. CPA, HR insurance coding, they have a great passion for teaching people the rules and regulations that keep
June 08, 2018
by howard
Podcast
dip on the pension and they're never there. They're dinda like dental insurance companies. Dental insurance companies aren't helping. They're trying to control you. They're saying, Well, we'll only pay you a hundred dollars to this filling and nobody can charge more. And if they charge more, they're
June 24, 2018
by howard
Podcast
it comes to the business side, it's not what we went to school for. We find it boring. I think that's true of everyone in healthcare. And think how insurance companies have made these inroads, I think they've gone a little too far with these networks in reducing fees. I think eventually we'll see
June 14, 2018
by howard
Podcast
don't teach young kids flea flicker play. So when they come out of school, for the first several years, they just need to get their skills up, basic dentistry, but when I look at a hundred million insurance claims filed- I lecture down in Florida to three hundred people from the insurance company
June 12, 2018
by howard
Podcast
know if there need to be insurance. He goes, Our business is going to be killed because the cars have been getting safer for thirty years with Ralph Nader's bumper and airbags, and all these things like that. But he said the human hasn't gotten any better. In fact, the humans have gotten worse because
June 01, 2018
by howard
Podcast
, or anything like that, just email me: howard@dentaltown.com; we can do that. But again, it's silver diamine fluoride, and here's where it lies: there's a lot of research that says it doesn't kill the bugs, it just kills some of the bugs. It just delays bugs, all those things; and there's no insurance
June 01, 2018
by howard
Podcast
example, you and I are both from Kansas. Danny: Yes, you just found that out. Howard: The funniest story I ever came ... way back in the day, 1998. Back when it was VHS, I came out with this thirty day dental MBA to help dentists get some training in their HR and people and insurance
June 13, 2018
by howard
Podcast
on the chart. Howard: Can I push this out on social media? Dale: You can and you can look up the bicycle ride on there because it's going to freak you out. Howard: Well, I just quit doing it. Dale: Yeah but here's the deal, it's not as dangerous as you think, but these equivalent risks are from insurance
June 08, 2018
by howard
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