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was scanned EOB entered into ledger correctly Correct adjustments were made Denial noted, correct action taken Other pending claims reviewed Family ledger reviewed Statement sent Hillary goes through her process of how to perform an insurance audit and how often you should be auditing your numbers. Major
May 03, 2018
by Jordon Comstock
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a huge increase in the number of dental graduates. Indemnity insurance has gone. It's all gone to PPO and the average fee is about 42% lower than their fee schedule. And then, inflation every year, a solid 2%, and that's just according to the Fed. And the Fed is, in my opinion, notoriously fudges
May 12, 2018
by howard
Podcast
Self Reliance This month Jordon wrote an article featured in Dentistry IQ regarding Self-Reliance. He approached it from the perspective of reducing dependence on insurance participation and becoming more self reliant on obtaining patients through effective means. As requested by many
May 03, 2018
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
to look at what's changed in their population because when practices go flat, not everything is flat. We see practices that plateau and what we see happening is, insurance reimbursements are down so they make up with it with more patients and more staff. And generally, when you see a plateaued
May 06, 2018
by howard
Podcast
need deep cleaning, only one and three does it. And they might all have insurance. They're like, A deep clean? I just want to get my teeth cleaned. So, they either don't understand or they didn't trust. I think M&A activity is amazing. Do you know anyone else in Oklahoma City that's bought three
May 16, 2018
by howard
Podcast
-plastic and so I think the fillings lasted twice as long thirty years ago. And the pharmacy, this is pretty funny, but I knew pharmacy was dead just because I lectured internationally because in France you would take your health insurance card and when the doctor did your prescription he'd load
May 16, 2018
by howard
Podcast
what I love about the Internet, because everybody thinks America's the greatest country in the world. I've lectured to dentists in fifty countries and America is number one in military, medicine, banking, insurance, finance, movies, and music. But your cars suck, cars are made in Germany and Japan
May 01, 2018
by howard
Podcast
try to keep in the basement. They're just, gosh darn, did he really say that, put a sock in his mouth and hide him. But Gordon, dentistry is under hard times. We got dental insurance in 1948 to sort out the Longshoreman's Club, but it was a $1000 max. That thousand would be five thousand a day
May 07, 2018
by howard
Podcast
are consolidated and from that, maybe you get to group negotiating power with your insurances or group buying power with your dental supplies and even your dental labs. So it's really not a DSO and you still retain your ownership of your practice but that's a trend that's taking off right now and that could
May 31, 2018
by howard
Podcast
Schools to fifty-six, the existing class sizes have gotten bigger. The insurance companies, every year they keep lowering our fees. So there's this increased competition, Medicare, Medicaid, dental insurance companies want to pay less and less and less. And then, of course, inflation and overhead
May 11, 2018
by howard
Podcast
for documentation. So if you have patients coming to your practice that have private insurance - private insurance are very challenging to deal with because they never really cut a check when you submit the paperwork, so they always come back with a series of questions. Now we have a LoupeCam customers
May 31, 2018
by howard
Podcast
doctor-centric type practice, these are patients that can go anywhere they want. They're don't care about what insurance you take, they're paying top dollar and they love Dr. X. So in those practices, I believe a little bit of a longer transition period is appropriate because you need to meld
May 12, 2018
by howard
Podcast
people's choice. It's funny how much more accepting they are of it when that's what their insurance pays for. All of a sudden it's okay. Howard: Do you think Medicaid, and Medicare for the poor, getting their filling done with redistributing money from other people, do you think they should just
May 02, 2018
by howard
Podcast
and bullshit is the 1% of their business that's orthognathic surgery. So the first thing he did after he did like ten orthognathic surgeries. This is crazy, the insurance fees have come down, it's not even worth it, he just gave that up and the thing about implants is you get a short fat, bald guy like
May 15, 2018
by howard
Podcast
patients. It's code for Lingual Frenectomy, it's D-79-60. Some of that could be built through medical. So, that's something that you should look into as well. Howard: D-79-60? Diana: Yeah. Frenectomy or Frenulum Frenectomy, yeah. But a lot of dental insurances will cover that procedure code. It might
May 03, 2018
by howard
Podcast
and you're not even a doctor. And you know why they did it because when I got the final bill, you know how much that little picture cost? Daniel: No. Howard: $8,000. Daniel: Wow! No insurance? Howard: Well, yeah, well, that's what the insurance had to pay. Daniel: That's not... oh wow! Howard: Yeah, yeah
May 30, 2018
by howard
Podcast
inter proximal lesion was automatic stainless steel crown. But then when I got into private practice where it wasn't a majority Medicaid population and it was mostly .. Howard: I thought you were in Phoenix... Jeanette: ...cash pay or private insurance, that did not fly. When they were footing
May 02, 2018
by howard
Podcast
think their idea is, I'm going to rid the world of cavities and gum disease, and then they wake up on Monday morning going, I hate this, because of the insurances, because my team, because of ..., the biggest complaints dentists have, but really that comes from the leadership and your purpose
May 06, 2018
by howard
Podcast
Doctor Jennifer Sarsland was born and raised in Bowman, ND. Dr. Sarsland earned her Bachelor of Business degree from The University of Mary in Bismarck, and after working in the insurance industry for a few years, decided to go back to school to pursue dentistry. She received her Doctor
May 30, 2018
by howard
Podcast
. Warren: Right, yeah. Howard: And so when you set up the egalitarian, which is Marxism, which is Communism, which is insanity, then the consumer says, Well God, all the dentists are the same. And so my insurance says if I go there, it'll only cost this much and there's no out of pocket
May 31, 2018
by howard
Podcast
into practice and it was the heyday of insurance paying for jaw surgery. So early in my career, you'll be astounded, but we did fifty orthognathic cases a year in my practice ... Howard: And what were they paying an arch back then? Dan: For the orthodontics? Howard: For the orthognathics? Dan: Oh
May 17, 2018
by howard
Podcast
our medical colleagues, where you go to your MD physician, and it sucks. Your MD hardly knows you. The lady at the front desk or the gentleman at the front desk that checks you in never makes eye contact. When you're checking in, they don't care about anything. It's just, What is the insurance
May 15, 2018
by howard
Podcast
in the emergency room because in the emergency room, they'll ding them if they're cash or insurance, it's going to be about $1,500 and they're not any further. They just got an X-ray and some Pen VK and some Vicodin so you've blown fifteen hundred bucks and you're still at square one. And so that is my gosh
May 05, 2018
by howard
Podcast
in Tijuana. I mean you can't travel the world figure out that, yeah, America is number one in military, medicine, banking, insurance, finance, movies, music. That's about it. Ryan: That's it. Yeah. Howard: They're not number one in cars. That's Japan and Germany. They're not number one
May 10, 2018
by howard
Podcast
capital. Same thing with labor though, so my labor is twenty percent, and the kids next to me are like, Oh my God, mine's higher, it's like, Well this guy is not counting uniforms, FICA matching, health insurance, so we need a chart of accounts. But I noticed on the chart of accounts, and I got out
May 17, 2018
by howard
Podcast
depending on the insurance company and they don't even know what the cost of that filling is. So, streamlining it down to a system, not to mention when I went to talk to Price One Consultants, you could go out and get the biggest practice management consultant names for free to come in and say, okay
May 06, 2018
by howard
Podcast
here's what they always say, Well I don't know if I need a consultant. Because if I could just do advertising and get just ten more new patients a month. Dana: Right. Howard: Fix all my problems, and I've already paid my rent, mortgage (inaudible: 55.23) computer, insurance, malpractice
May 10, 2018
by howard
Podcast
in today's world it's the dentist. Howard: Yeah. Bruce: I think if you asked that question when you and I graduated school, it was probably the physician may be the vet, but today I think and a lot of this is because of what's going on in the payer community, insurance companies and so on and so forth
May 31, 2018
by howard
Podcast
on Dentaltown and you don't like it, it makes you feel bad, hit the report abuse button. We've got a dozen dentists volunteers and I know some of you are all butt hurt that some of these people have been kicked out, but you know what, I get enough stress from insurance companies, staff, patients, Ryan
May 18, 2018
by howard
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