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, alleging gross negligence, wrongful death, denial of due process, and failure to properly support him during a mental health crisis. The case has already been covered by NRI Pulse in 'While Nothing Can Bring Our Son Back, We Want to Ensure This Never Happens to Another Student,' The Times of India in 'Our
May 17, 2026
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pressure, student debt, staffing chaos, insurance games, and patients who Google everything before sitting in the chair all pile up fast. Burnout is not rare. It is normal. The real question is what we are doing about it. The ADA has leaned hard into this reality and built a surprisingly deep wellness
April 06, 2026
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killing yourself. be patient and watch all 1:23 mins. pretty much sums up where medicine has gone with insurance driven practices. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
July 05, 2019
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...anonymous social media negative review BS, insurance company influence on dentistry, corporate dentistry making inroads and determining treatment ( they say they don't but we all know that's BS ), staff demands/salaries/mat leaves, labor law BS, expensive CE, high high high office overheads...it all just
April 06, 2018
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Im Tiff, the ADHD Dentists, and after 15 years of being a clinical dentist, the reason why money after the time we get it, its not me being told someone hates me before Ive even said hello felt like a kind of rejection. I was no longer able or willing to tolerate because explaining that insurance
June 11, 2025
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unique or special you psychologically feel, irrespective of whether you typically live in denial or usually perceive life as a moment to moment experience, all brains are still the same, and they are all experiencing this moment in time for the first time. All brains, from viruses through mammals, use
April 09, 2020
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. Responsibility cannot be delegated and is always retained by the practice owner/s, but Authority can be and is often delegated. The Authority for scheduling, insurance verification, billing, ordering consumables, and even dismissing patents can be delegated. However, the Responsibility of the dental
March 30, 2026
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because we are forced to face that we are on the downside of our lives and no longer have the energy to continue to live in denial that we are not happy. To be continued: Dr. Carter: the blurb about the hookers is from The Onion. The Onion is a satirical website with completely made up farcical
December 23, 2020
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on to a corporate place where I have been for about a year, but I simply can't take the stress anymore. Has anyone been a reviewer for an insurance company? Can you make a living doing that full time? Is it stressful? What other ideas are out there? If necessary, I will change careers, but have no idea what
June 10, 2021
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Very true, there are no truly easy jobs. I envision a time where i can just go work somewhere for 2 days/week and live a modest lifestyle. The problem is most of us who don't love dentistry have financial obligations that require us to keep cranking full speed. * Iwould love to hear the story of...
June 11, 2021
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and insurance wants 160 days to process appeals .What systems can be beneficial to the growth of practice ?Why is it okay to work now get paid later in our world ?I cant concentrate on practice ( let alone find time for myself ) after checking out and picking kids from daycare . Once dinner is done
July 24, 2022
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years after my start up . For several years I was getting 150-180 NP per month. Someone talked me into taking every insurance under the sun + Medicaid + worse insurances like Tx Chip. I was working 6 days/ week to pay off student loans and new house and 500K practice loan. 5 years into my career, I
June 25, 2025
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advice. 2. People who are complainers will complain about everything. That is their nature. You can not make their problem your problem. I don't believe this is nearly as true as it used to be. Populations are so much more transient, moving more often from place to place and job to job. Insurance also
April 04, 2019
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sam12, I too work in Queens. Flushing, NY 11354. PM back, we are practically neighbors. You are welcome to pick my brain, come visit my office, see how I transitioned from a purely insurance driven to a hybrid FFS/insurance practice. I'm not a smart man, if I can do it so can you.
April 07, 2021
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the notion that everything a dentist does must be perfect and last forever originate? Answer : Dentists. There was only one perfect person, and they hung him from a cross. part of it also due to the insurance industry....crown comes off after three years, insurance won't pay due to frequency
July 08, 2024
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you drop the price and see if you get any bites? otherwise you gear it down ant walk away. I totally understand from where you are coming. It is scary to everything you have worked for can be gone with an illness. I think the first think I would do is make sure your disability insurance is up to par
March 07, 2023
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are not the only profession or small business having these employee issues. Do not take it personal. The front desk person is handling insurance and having to submit with minimal mistakes and when there is a new person it takes time for them to get acquainted with the patients and accounts etc. What I did
October 20, 2020
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ventures. I never told them that I was a dentist, and they brought up one new venture- managed care dental insurance. They were talking about how they could screw dentists over and they would still come back for more. They were laughing about it. I was just a young doc and it took any innocence left
May 08, 2018
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y/o that lost 1/2 his molars as a teen schedules a consultation wanting $20k worth of comprehensive dentistry bc he finally got a job with insurance making $15/hr and thinks his insurance covers ortho, veneers and implants at 100%...and then wont even let us at least clean him to recover some
November 10, 2021
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regarding work, work pace and level of chaos, and values alignmentbetween the physician and administration. So basically insurance is the problem. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to really explain it all or account for situations like this, where insurance doesn't come into play
April 26, 2022
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If you dropped all insurances and do your own hygiene for a while when your current hygienist retires, you could lose 35% of your patients, work much less, and make the same money. Others have made suggestions which are also doable, but maybe a drastic change is what you need. I also could have
June 12, 2023
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) Change my practice drastically. Drop insurances and head toward FFS. Try to make what I have into what I think I could handle. PROS: Lean and mean and less stressful in near future. CONS: Possibility of losing lots of patients and shrinking and already small collection number, making office almost
January 25, 2023
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level is playing a role. Just my observation and again not excusing the guys in the Friday night knife and gun club who can't control themselves in the ER-- send their ass to jail. This is a huge reason why we have been dropping insurance plans. I've found certain patients tend to be very entitled
October 30, 2023
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mostly insurance driven practice with 2200 patients and make it FFS. Patients pay up front, check goes to patient. We'll file insurance for patient. We'd train up the staff on how to speak, how to look, etc. We'd get liposuction and plastic surgery for any team member who needs it. Uniforms would get
August 22, 2022
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not seen! It's an important reminder to try to enjoy the journey when you can and make the opportunities to do so! Step 1 - Realize that more work doesn't always mean more money. For example, seeing 40 medicaid patients a day has the same revenue as 20 regular insurance patients and the same revenue
August 11, 2025
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don't think you totally understand how I work. I know roughly five other Docs who practice similar to me, and none of us practice the way your former boss does. We collaborate regularly on cases. I'm sure the DSO's will strike a deal with insurance companies concerning cleanings once they corner
August 31, 2022
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...new insurance...a friend recommended another office... Unless the reason they left is I hate Dr. spartansdoc...he/she is an asshat...I wouldn't worry at all. If you beat yourself up about this little stuff...it's gonna be a very long career. Let it go...or stop having your staff tell you about
June 11, 2021
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recently, 2. Insurance reimbursements are stagnant or barely inching up (I'm looking at you Delta), 3. The cost of materials has increased dramatically due to inflation. This isn't the career it used to be and I don't feel like it's worth the stress. I've told all my kids to stay away from dental school
February 09, 2023
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. I know documentation of health histories, consent forms, procedure notes, etc, drive me crazy and it's sometimes nothing compared to what a physician may face in a day. The forums here are filled with burnout threads. It's only going to get worse as insurance companies squeeze providers, litigation
July 10, 2018
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a day each week, and work on your practice. Here's how I did it in the past (taking credit for my dad's work, actually). 1. Make a list of reimbursement/insurance/code. Compare via a spreadsheet. Highlight the lowest paying 2. Make a list of the PITA patients. Also, list what insurance they have
September 12, 2022
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she didn't like dentistry. We cannot handle the volume of patients just the two of us, so I am dropping a state employee insurance and medicaid. This is probably 50% of my office. I am nervous for what is to come next year when the schedule is empty. Right now we have a huge backlog of Hygiene
December 07, 2021
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, dentistry, and the physical pain I endured regularly. I began to drop the worst insurances, and in a span of 3 years got rid of all but Delta Dental and straight Medicaid. I kept Medicaid because most of my Medicaid patients are elderly and felt this was the way to help those in need. My patient load
April 06, 2021
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, or CPAP appliances. This fits the same pattern. The Flow device is expected to launch in the United States by mid 2026, likely by prescription, with pricing estimated in the several hundred dollar range. Insurance coverage discussions are ongoing. That means patients will ask about it. Some already
January 03, 2026
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point is that working is about more than just the money. I would be working to keep busy and help people, not to make money. I would drop some insurances (except the best paying) to think the schedule, then like others have said implement some soup nazi tendencies, and on we go. I would be overstaffed
August 23, 2022
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not do that could have prevented the pain/outcome, then you have to realize you are not perfect, and will make mistakes, and accept the consequences of such. Your alternatives are to believe you are a perfect human, which seems delusional, or live in denial of your humanness, which seems equally
January 31, 2020
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unreasonable expectations....because not finding one good person in 100 seems statistically less likely Justin Or maybe she plays for the other team and is in denial..... I think that I'm extraverted, but the idea of hundreds of these dinners w/ people I don't know well tires me out. My friend was a very
May 04, 2021
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. The marriage to insurance is more important than relationship with dentist. Solo office will always survive in my opinion but it will decrease in percentage. The amount of people willing to pay and afford dental treatment is not keeping up with the number of dentists being pumped out. If all dental
October 06, 2020
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. But to do it whilst paying staff huge raises and then still not able to find staff once one leaves , has just added to the frustration. I hope that eventually the staffing problem will change . I hope the insurance reimbursement rates would keep up with inflation . But Im asking to much . Funny joke
February 20, 2023
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the general public. Unfortunately I do not see a solution at this time to the problem. It transcends pay and work environment issues. Hopefully more of us will find it impossible to survive at PPO fees and go FFS and the insurance companies will abandon the dental market place for lack of takers
September 03, 2022
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and cancellations. Its annoying but really makes no difference to my practice. Its nice. Unless this hygiene situation changes you either need to go big and manage a beast, go small and ffs, or ditch hygiene and go niche. The days of being in network with a few plans is probably over without insurance
August 31, 2022
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, renegotiated higher reimbursement with the insurances that are willing to renegotiate, dropped out of insur that were not willing. Some became in- net again thru better paying TPA. Still in- net with DD Premier but they are on our radar to drop. Our schedule is less hectic, we take off more days, our
September 18, 2023
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to be 100% fee for service, there are some decent insurance plans out there that pay a lot more than medicaid (Cigna, Delta, etc) Forget the high volume/low fee plans, its not going to work for you without auxiliaries, especially a good hygienist (or two, maybe!) Good luck You probably don't want to do
December 12, 2021
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thought i wanted to own multiple offices and practice just a day or two a week. the office i first bought back in 2017 is a dying breed, i see the writing on the wall. i'm about 60% ppo with 35-40% write offs (i am working on getting out of some insurances). i have three chairs, one for me and one
October 11, 2021
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problem and a psychiatric clearance is required prior to treatment. You will never see them again :) Great Idea, but lets bundle it with an exam. Or for more fun, let's create 4 codes to bill, but lets make it so insurance won't cover any of them but will also not let us bill the patient. So now we
August 05, 2025
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here on DT.So when we complain that our biggest problems are insurance reimbursement, where should we move, which restaurant to choose tonight, what car to buy next and whether we make $200K, $300K or $400K this year, lets stop for a moment at the end of each day and remember how fortunate we
August 12, 2021
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of servicing your patients pool, massive administrative requirements (Medicaid), and insufficient reimbursement (Gov Insurances). You understandably have a ton of stress, anxiety, and a bit of guilt. That being said, I think you're making the right call by dropping the state insurance and medicaid
December 15, 2021
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here) on their way to ride in RAGBRAI. He practiced 12 years in his own private practice and then had enough as he put it and became an insurance agent for a well known insurance company. He jokingly acknowledges how he left a pile of money on the table by making this move but stated that mentally he
August 11, 2022
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) insurance plan. That Was Ego Crushing, and it included many people who I thought LOVED ME...surprise...they did NOT. ODDLY ENOUGH I also retained many people that I did not really like, and they stayed DESPITE HIGH FEES. I later found out this was all an emotional storm created in my head
June 09, 2021
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and belt loops What BS I called my insurance for business interruption. They told me since I had no physical broken things (took time to drain and shut off water), no coverage. They said since power and water outages was city-wide, no coverage. They said if it was applicable to me or my area
February 25, 2021
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average. I wouldnt be able to pay my bills on 2 pt/ day.....that means my staff as well......mostly Bc I cant get those fees. ;) I have one insurance where I would get reimbursed about 2k for that bridge he did. But if I could get 5k adj prod (my side) on a few Pt/ day??? Id take that and run
March 08, 2022
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