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tessina 33 During this episode Tessina answers several of the most common insurance related quetions sent to us by the listeners. Per popular request Tessina has been asked to make a 4th appearance on the podcast to address
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
that such a future doesn’t exist. Many even argue that the DSO model is the way of the future as solo practitioners simply cannot keep up with the risking cost to deliver dentistry combined with the stagnant reimbursement rates set by insurance carriers. Then there are those who warn
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
First of all, Quality Care matters! We believe dental insurance was an inspired effort to encourage the public to seek dental care and receive routine preventative care. Unfortunately, dental insurance has become increasingly difficult to manage within the dental practice. Too often do we
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
Tessina Barney is a high powered dental office manager in Salem Utah. She assists in managing the Utah Chapter of the Academy of Dental Office Managers (UDOLLS). Tessina explains her experience in policing unethical and illegal insurance practices by a particularly large national insurance
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
selling of treatment and development of new patient flow. He has done presentations in all of the 50 states and every major city in Canada. Alan is a graduate of Hofstra University and New York University. During this episode Alan discusses eliminating the insurance driven mentality during case
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
e-19 During this Episode Tessina and Angie give insight on the efficacy of billing your UCR’s to insurance. Many practices only bill their contracted PPO rates to insurance and this episode will explain why billing PPO
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
ta During this episode Tessina and Angie discuss the following issues: How to run reports to track if procedures have not been billed to insurance Billing procedures that are not covered to increase utilization
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
facts about charging material fees or upgrades. In the end, patients are empowered with choices in the type of dental care they want and need. We also believe that patients should be responsible in paying for higher end cosmetic work that may not be covered by their insurance plan. This episode
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
· Achieve treatment compliance · Monitor your progress in an ongoing way · Turn potential clients into YOUR clients for life During this Episode we discuss how first impressions impact patients decisions to accept treatment plans. Lorraine also gives her take on the insurance driven
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
does not have dental insurance. Furthermore, those that see the dentist regularly either have dental insurance or some other 3rd party payor. While it’s great that patients are coming in for routine care most of us have to deal with the rules and restrictions imposed by insurance contracts
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
insurance plans. While our podcast is not intended to promote insurance boycotting we recognize that many doctors are better off being out of network. This episode will provide some feedback about how a certain client of Weston was successfully able to drop insurance plans and achieve the goal of working less for more. To contact Dental Intel visit .
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
the ProCare insurance replacement program. Both Jordan and Ben fully support ProCare’s concept as they both are seeing, first hand, the ProCare program unfold throughout the country. With the permission of Dr. Mark Costes, we replay this episode and invite all of our listeners visit the Dental Success Institute online (). Subscribe to Visit the : Visit To play the locked video the password is: revolution2017
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
Tessina Tessina Barney is our first repeat offender. If you go back to Episode 5 you can listen to her explain how she polices illegal and unethical practices by insurance carriers. During this episode, Tessina explains
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
angie Angie has been in dentistry for 31 yrs. She is President and co-founder of UDOLLS (Utah Dental Office Leaders Learning) in 2012 to share the things she has learned over the years with more dental colleagues. She started...
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
torres Chris Torres is a personal friend of Ben Tuinei. Chris is an insurance broker in Phoenix AZ who helps dentist establish Tax Saving and protection strategies. Chris has helped both Jordon and Ben with managing
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
on how she manages to keep it all straight and shares some of the valuable lessons that she’s learned about dealing with dental insurance companies throughout her career. Visit the
May 05, 2017
by DrMarkCostes
Podcast
through mutual clients he’s helped. One of our clients raved about Mike helping to improve this doctor’s online ranking from page 44 to page 1 in a matter of weeks. We’ve never seen that before and that’s why we’ve invited Mike to participate in this interview. Good marketing is a key formula in reducing insurance dependency and Mike has some tricks you may enjoy. You can find out more at
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
; then starting from scratch in San Diego with a Fee For Service practice, Laura knows a thing or two about how to handle the insurance driven mentality that is so pervasive in the dental community. Laura brings real life experience on items such as membership programs, front office training, PPO mentality
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
to HELP YOUR PATIENTS SAY YES! During this episode Dr. Brown helps us CONNECT THE DOTS so patients can say “YES”, and from a dentist who is fee for service. Case presentation in a community that is “managed care” (insurance) driven is much more difficult when you are out
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
seminars for dental and medical professionals and serves as an adjunct professor at the New York University (NYU) Dental School and Resident Programs for Maimonides Hospital. During this episode Christine explains how day to day dental procedures and services can be covered under medical insurance
May 26, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
. Yes. Howard Farran : Minal@marketinggmm.com. So, gosh, it's funny because every dentist you talk to you know, they're paying all their bills but they always sit there and think in the back of their mind, if I've already paid my rent, mortgage, equipment bill, computer, insurance, malpractice
May 22, 2017
by howard
Podcast
from. As a matter of fact, if you pull up their 990 form, you'll find out that the sources of their income are blanked out so we don't know. For example, it could be the insurance industry that's funded this in an effort to ... Howard Farran: Oh, you're not going to go with George Soros. Kevin Earle
May 11, 2017
by howard
Podcast
must only be working on immigrants who had root canals in other countries and then moved to the United States? Dr. Kolnick : Pretty much. Pretty much. Howard Farran : Practice limited to immigrants who had a failed root canal done somewhere else. So though I love insurance data the most because
May 10, 2017
by howard
Podcast
behind it, and a lot of them are dentists that have an idea. In fact, I was in Silicon Valley last week and we're building in insurance verification tool for a dentist in Silicon Valley. A couple weeks ago, we started the development on a patient cost estimator and then we also are now just finishing
May 25, 2017
by howard
Podcast
an impression and does an onlay, insurance says no dice. But she gets out her diamond and files that tooth down for a full coverage crown, they pay 50 per cent. That's a brutal reality for at least 80 per cent of American dentists. What would you say to that young girl? She's 30 years old listening to you
May 19, 2017
by howard
Podcast
leaking, you fix it. But when something goes wrong with your teeth, you think the insurance should pay for it. I said, What id you didn't want to have kids anymore, and the insurance would only pay for a total castration, and you wanted a vasectomy. Are you going to get your balls cut off because
May 17, 2017
by howard
Podcast
and professional goals to enhance productivity, and become insurance independent. She customizes training and presentations to any business as well as church retreats and couples retreats. Paula specializes in SYSTEMS for personal and professional growth with an emphasis on people skills. Paula has been
May 09, 2017
by howard
Podcast
competitors. We ask hard questions. We say, What have you done in the past? What did that look like? How did it bring you new patients? What was your experience? How many patients are you getting now? How many patients did you get last year? How big is your office? What services do you offer? What insurance
May 12, 2017
by howard
Podcast
cost X amount to fix it, but honestly most pediatric procedures are covered at 80% or something like that. So it's not like a huge out-of-pocket expense, unless they just don't have insurance. So it's typically not too expensive to fix the baby teeth, and it depends if you wanna do all zirconia
May 31, 2017
by howard
Podcast
of the genius, Rick Workman, who owns more dental offices than anybody in the world. He owns 1500 offices. He started in Effingham and he was so smart. He went to the insurance companies and say, Where are you selling dental insurance getting complaints that there's no dentists? I think
May 30, 2017
by howard
Podcast
, and were talking about FICA matching, health insurance, bonuses, whatever a cost to keep those people in your office. And they're just routinely going into offices where that's 31, 33, 35. And it so demoralizing to do what they have to do, which is say, you work for $25 an hour, and starting Monday you're
May 26, 2017
by howard
Podcast
. And that team can consist of a lawyer to review or draft contracts, an accountant that can help with the numbers, consultants, bankers, insurance agents, form a team. That doesn't mean they have to hire a team of employees to do this. These are outsourced people that are there to help them with their team
May 30, 2017
by howard
Podcast
is that when ... I love looking at the insurance data. When you look at tooth numbers one through 32, and then you look at insurance claims made per tooth. You have these four monstrous spikes on the four first molars, and then it just falls off to almost nothing on either side. It's that first molar that's
May 24, 2017
by howard
Podcast
officer/investigator for the Texas Dental Board. He investigated dentists for issues ranging from patient complaints to insurance/Medicaid fraud, drug diversion and even infection control problems. It is his experience that most dentists and their staff strive to do what is right when they know what
May 12, 2017
by howard
Podcast
don't want to do any of that. They just want to take a pill. So, what prescription pill are you recommending to give us the most probiotic bang for our buck? And will insurance pay for it? They want to take a pill and they want someone else to pay for it. Steven Lin: No, a probiotic's great. Corganic
May 29, 2017
by howard
Podcast
. Howard Farran: Okay. My beef with my homie is that you know, they don't want to spend three to five to seven percent advertising, to get half of America, that doesn't have dental insurance. They don't want to do that, that's a pain in the ass. You send them a contract for a PPO, where everything's
May 22, 2017
by howard
Podcast
to accept these terms. Well, I don't have my whole layover to read this contract. Dentistry, it's really sad because these insurance companies will send them in a PPO provider contract and now it turns out that none of these guys even read it so now all of a sudden the company starts signing up
May 12, 2017
by howard
Podcast
a little bit about my background, I have an NASD license, so I can sell securities on Wall Street, I had a broker's real estate license and a California insurance license. So I had a gravity toward business and understanding how business actually worked. So making these buyouts only made common
May 09, 2017
by howard
Podcast
placed over a thousand, or 5,000, or 10,000 never used a surgical guide. And, you know, you got most of them are replacing the first molar. I mean, when you look at the insurance data, and you print out one to 32 teeth, it's the six year molars where us just got four huge spikes for all these crowns
May 31, 2017
by howard
Podcast
the internet. That's the only way this works because there's the internet and there's lots of way to find people for insurance look up. Ragina Singla: You know, I've never seen a person walk into the building and knock on every door and figure out what dentist they want to go to. Everybody walks
May 26, 2017
by howard
Podcast
hope not. It would be nice to have you as part of our Australian team. Howard Farran: I think it was after fifty. You guys have single payer national health insurance. They don't want a bunch of seventy year olds retiring down there getting a bunch of hip surgeries and cancer and all that. I think
May 23, 2017
by howard
Podcast
their dental insurance but they don't blink at signing up for a PPO that's 40% less. They'll go set up in downtown San Fran, LA or north Scottsdale cause they don't want to pay $1,000 for demographics that would say, never, ever, ever go there. I want to talk about a couple other things. What
May 08, 2017
by howard
Podcast
at that in America. Howard Farran: You know half of America ... It seems like I could divide the country in to two groups. Half of them, when you say dentist, go in to fear, I don't want a shot, don't drill on me, I just don't like that. And the other half are afraid of money, cost, insurance, blah, blah, blah
May 11, 2017
by howard
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