Search Results

Searching: insurance denials
Results: 30
Message Board
, we control our fees and our staff pay, they help with insurance, payroll, marketing, compliance. These are very real services. Here's some specific examples...they are the ones that wait on the phone with the insurance company now. They have gotten the insurance to pay denied claims...claims
September 01, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 1108 | Replies: 21
this as a career to a young person looking for direction. So, I guess yourdream is to have 3/4 grads working for Heartland? Or 4/4???Maybe owning the dental schools,also? Hey, why not start an insurance company and a supply housebea one stop shop?!? While I admire your business acumen and what you have built
March 30, 2018
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 185 | Replies: 3
the Mouth-Body Connection tab. Did they merge with an MSO? I guess I'm not surprised. Wow. Very interesting. Wonder how they will upsell medical insurance plans. People already complain of dental upselling but are somewhat used to that. With medical insurance there is more expectation that insurance
December 26, 2018
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 13706 | Replies: 434
. Most of my patients have a high school education and are working class people with normal jobs and no insurance. cp make those corporations big bucks while you get pennies on the dollar as they overwork your ass and make you ache and sweat. good luck with...mark...Dentistry could have stopped
November 24, 2016
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 2438 | Replies: 42
stringent and aggressive than a solo practitioner. To have such a huge collection deficit sounds suspect and shady. Talk to the office manager about getting paid what you're owed. Talk to the person submitting all pending claims for proof of submission. Random call insurances for past submitted claims
January 13, 2020
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Office was started 35+ years ago. Orig doc sold, stayed as associate, then it was quickly sold to DSO within 5 years.There is a lot of production because the original doc did massive fillings that are now all failing and the pt base is mostly affluent with good insurance.
September 07, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
the savings from supplies, our Admin fee for July was approx 1.55%. This does not include savings from other areas (payroll, insurance, IT, marketing, etc.) Pre-transition, we were planning on hiring another person to do insurance. Now, we don't need to. Not sure what you mean.My OH is lower. You'll
September 01, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 238 | Replies: 3
professional career he has developed new health care services including an innovative medical malpractice insurance company. He has worked in almost every part of the health care industry including recently advising health care entrepreneurs in mobile health, accountable care organizations, dental
October 25, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
involves practice sales or buying to DSO s? You don't have to answer that personal question BTW. Good question, Tom. It's difficult for younger docs to say no because of student loan debt, the high cost of individual health insurance and other benefits purchased outside of the framework of a large
August 25, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
. Ok, I'm only an inch taller. But still, it explains some things.... Here's what I know....my healthcare insurance went up 17% this past year. 14% the year before. You think rationing of care is a crisis-level deal? The rate of these increases is simply unsustainable. And you know what won't fix
August 29, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 415 | Replies: 8
NOT subscribe to the DSOs typical insurance programs (PPOs only). However at the end of the day there's still private equity involvement and they have expectations about daily production (ie same-day starts/consult flips). Has anyone been involved in a model like this? I worked in a same day heavy office
November 06, 2018
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 13706 | Replies: 434
five options under same flag as who treated granny. Reciprocity I can tell a patient that if their Missouri denture breaks while they are seeing micky mouse in florida- that the florida office wont charge them to fix it. Health Insurance Obama gutted the store and left us producers holding
November 28, 2016
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
, dentistry is evolving into big business. Depending on who you talk to, this evolvement is good or bad. Agree with DrPainlus. Personally, I don't see the growth of super corporations, super insurances companies, super hospitals as a good thing. In the long run, the economy will suffer. When I bought
August 22, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 7521 | Replies: 102
easily. Your insurance covers xyz Add in a combo of Care credit, Lending club, in house discount plans etc Organized systems for presenting fees and sales 3 columns booked per doctor. Boom. It is not wiping out PP. Many of my NPs come from them I actually felt sorry and some
March 22, 2018
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 5918 | Replies: 60
right or wrong, it is what it is, it's HMO. Since February I've worked 2 or 3 days week doing locums in private practices in San Diego. All are heavily involved with insurance, including HMO's. All are doing the same things that are regularly described as corporate tactics to increase revenue. All
December 12, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 13706 | Replies: 434
won't adapt (in addition to patients only wanting dentists who take their insurance and high student loan debt.) Older docs probably think I'm crazy for not using anesthetic on most of my fillingsbut yetpatients aren't in pain or how I give anesthetic for an extraction then take the tooth out 2
November 27, 2016
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 13706 | Replies: 434
, and the DT server melts down from all of the responses. Just take care of yourself, sounds like you're doing well. Corporate dental organizations are a result. They are a result of student loan debts, saturation in desirable areas, and squeezes from insurance and supply companies
November 30, 2016
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 343 | Replies: 2
be interested unless the company has a threshold of $5.0 Million in EBITDA regardless of revenue (I will discuss revenue, multiples of EBITDA and valuations in the future). This is mostly due to the PE firm internal charters and how they raise capital from various pension funds, insurance companies, endowment
December 03, 2017
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
busy I guess because the insurance fees are higher for them. They are heavy on Cerec everything including inlays and onlays. I'll never work for another dso personally, not after the experiences I've had. I wouldn't say that being cheap is necessarily the reason, I believe they want new grads because
August 28, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
there and large industries? It sounds like a utopia if you are a dentist, no insurances, low saturation, am I missing something?I covered the entire county I grew up in. I got one offer to come in to a dying practice and see if I could use my home town connections to build his practice. And another
August 28, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 894 | Replies: 16
in 2009 and I knew a single doc would probably not buy that practice cuz of my heavy insurance participation and the procedures I did. I also knew several docs in my area who wanted to sell and retire and move to a different state but couldn't sell their place and were stuck in Wisconsin. I sold my
June 19, 2018
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
in the not too distant future. I'll say it again, appreciating it's only my experience (and every dentist about my age I talk to)....there is no way things are easier today, from a business standpoint. It ain't even close. I never had to worry about things like new patients, marketing, HIPPA, OSHA, insurance
September 02, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 13706 | Replies: 434
making money off you. who do you think is funding these new ITT tech dental schools that are popping up all over the place? here's a clue, the same corporations and insurance companies you have become slave to. they could give two shits about you. if something were to happen to you, you'd be out
November 29, 2016
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 5918 | Replies: 60
the systems in the office to run as smoothly as possible, and for a patient, I can see why they would like it. He had to learn a lot of the dental/insurance part of the office in the beginning, but he just absolutely killed w patient/customer satisfaction, so the office didn't let him go. He also did
March 22, 2018
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 13706 | Replies: 434
This is a pretty accurate description. I was already pretty fast cuz of how long I've been a doc and from being a practice owner I felt I knew more on dealing with the insurance companies than management because most did not have a dental background. I worked with PDS and feel their associate
November 25, 2016
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
name on the practice for about 5 months while I was there. I was replaced (I wasn't a good fit) by a newer grad and I think they were giving up on the spa type practice and open up to any and every insurance to become a high volume. I did see the other dentist is leaving after a year. Maybe
August 29, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 13706 | Replies: 434
Marketing -- theirmarketing effortswere generic and untracked as far as i could see Collections -- my insurance coordinator worked with me at corporate. She is amazed at how much more money we collect with our systems which is just best practices. CE -- the big argument for corporate
November 28, 2016
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
and stay outta the way clinically. Having a corp behind you gives you leverage in virtually every area of dentistry. They also help with compliance and all the legal bs we are supposed to know. Would any dentist really not want help with insurance claims, payroll, IT?? Most would but they are not willing
September 07, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
% of bad actors. That's life.DSOs are going to put many labs, supply companies, credit card processors, accountants, insurance clearing houses, 3rd party software etc etc out of business. When they takeover, they put in their systems and use their vendors, not what you had. I could go with all
August 23, 2019
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Message Board
Views: 4622 | Replies: 117
in H1B, but I guess that's not what we are discussing any more. There was a time and need for dentists in US, in the early 90s. Now, it's a different story. More than a record number of dentists have recorded lower number of patients and lower income than previous years. Insurance owns our clinics
December 25, 2016
Large Group Dentistry and DSOs
Dentaltown Magazine
May 2026
Dentaltown Magazine May 2026 Read Current Issue Read Archived Issues
Sponsors
Townie Perks
Townie® Poll
What’s actually driving most of your new patient flow right now?
  
Site Menu
Message Boards Magazine Continuing Education Podcasts Pods & Blogs Classifieds Dental News Events Townie® Poll Ebooks Townie Choice Awards
Company Info
Contact Us Advertise With Us Howard Farran DDS, MBA Policies and Agreements
Site Help
The Dentaltown Team, Farran Media Support
Phone: +1-480-445-9710
Email: support@dentaltown.com
©2026 Dentaltown, a division of Farran Media • All Rights Reserved
9633 S. 48th Street Suite 200 • Phoenix, AZ 85044 • Phone:+1-480-598-0001 • Fax:+1-480-598-3450