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have an army of people working our practice. We can't have an army of people to make sure that every single person has paid the money they owe us today. We can't have an army of people to make sure that every insurance problem was resolved as efficiently as it needed to be. We can't have every single
October 02, 2015
by howard
Podcast
created they hygiene department? Amos and Andy. The first toothpaste, brush your teeth with Ipana and see your dentist every 6 months. See your dentist twice a year. The insurance companies picked up on that first and so did dentists and now we're at 2015 and we're saying … That reminds me
October 23, 2015
by howard
Podcast
why I think you ask any dentist, Have your supply prices been going down year after year? They'd all say no. Howard Farran: It's just not fair because while they're getting discounts from the major supplying companies, they're negotiating higher revenue from the insurance companies. We're not even
October 02, 2015
by howard
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October 01, 2015
by OpenADentalOffice
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with insurance plans. What we've found in measuring and listening to phone calls and measuring conversion rates on the phone, we know that being in network with an insurance plan in most parts of the country does not produce more phone calls. What it does is it raises the conversion rate of a phone call
October 01, 2015
by howard
Podcast
it to three other ones. They'll never, ever do it. We saw one last week where a broker with an insurance company, she said, Let's take your plan out show it to some other options, well she showed it to three other options that were identical to one that she had the business owner
October 19, 2015
by howard
Podcast
is keeping them legal. What I do, as far as documentation and coding, is a legal part of their business and a lot of doctors don't remember that they don't have to participate, this is such a fallacy, with an insurance company to get an audit. They just need one person to make a phone call, whether
October 06, 2015
by howard
Podcast
the insurance too close. I mean, if all the doctors work for insurance companies then who are the doctors, you know what I mean? Doctors can't be judgmental. I see that person in myself with weight loss. I mean, I exercise two to three hours every morning, seven days a week and I have family members
October 16, 2015
by howard
Podcast
, absolutely. Howard Farran: Those poor boys come home and they’re all in the age, only have two disease, wisdom teeth and dental decay and their insurance doesn’t cover mental health or dental disease. It’s like how can those guys sit there in Congress and see all those boys that serve
October 08, 2015
by howard
Podcast
the United States alone. Lauren: That's horrible. Howard: Then I got to ask you as a woman, instead a man. How come if you go to a doctor and ask for an exam downstairs the insurance pays and they can do a uterine pap smear and all that is paid, but when I do an oral exam or oral cancer screen
October 01, 2015
by howard
Podcast
’t accept my insurance bam, bam, bam.” Well, it gets in the head of a frontline staff member and the next thing you know you’ve got a business that’s all about only inviting people in with the right kind of insurance. The truth is if you diagnose where it came from it came from
October 20, 2015
by howard
Podcast
created an entitlement, and insurance mindset among patients, and unfortunately to some degree luckily for our industry not to a great degree but to some degree, and again, depending on socioeconomics and depending on geography, our patients do have an insurance mindset. They do have an entitlement
October 07, 2015
by howard
Podcast
a web-based system? Lorne: Not that I know if. Almost all of them in my discussions with them are working on it. They see the writing on the wall. I think, as a society, with the prevalence of Facebook and Amazon. Everyone is online for basically everything, banking, insurance. All that stuff
October 15, 2015
by howard
Podcast
that way you're inaudible 00:32:02 Howard: How do you charge for that? Does insurance pay anything? Eric: Oh yeah. My staff here is fantastic. We can bill out to medical sometimes, not always but sometimes. Yeah, more dental insurances are covering implant placement and socket grafting, probably more
October 05, 2015
by howard
Podcast
of Tarun’s model. Cory Glenn: Basically, you would … you’ve got to have recurrent billings set up in your credit card company. You can just go on online and you come to terms with the patient. For example, if they’ve got a … This is great for the insurance patient
October 20, 2015
by howard
Podcast
, or McDonald's? Fred: Yeah, where's the gross income? Howard: I think it's gross when a doctor prefers a higher income, higher educated patient instead of any of my uncles, or cousins, or nephews, or nieces do you know what I mean? Why a doctor ... It's like when doctors listen to the insurance people
October 26, 2015
by howard
Podcast
to the nerve. You can only feel this- Grant: I've got a crack, I've got a fracture. Look what I've got? I've got money. I don't even use insurance when I go to a ... I'm like, Just charge me. Let's roll. Let's go. Get it done. How fast can you get me handled? What else do I need? Do I need to have
October 09, 2015
by howard
Podcast
going to go away, and people aren't going to buy all their supplies online is because, you get to see a variety of offices. You get to see what are the ones that are more successful. By success I don't mean just money, I mean they're happy, they're not getting beat up by insurance, their staff's
October 23, 2015
by howard
Podcast
. Louis, do you charge the patient to take that monitor home? Is that a cash deal? Does insurance cover that? If you buy a $5-thousand machine, you come into my office, I send you home with it ... Is there a fee for that? Louis: That's a great, great question. AFT members have used different models
October 19, 2015
by howard
Podcast
guides and when I look at the total profit from the practice. Implants might only be 10 or 15% of their revenue but it's usually half their net income profit. Do you agree or disagree with that? Justin Moody: I agree with that whole heartedly and even in a world where you're not in the insurance
October 12, 2015
by howard
Podcast
for the insurance maximum. If you can get her done, I want to come in here one time and never see you again. Louis Kaufman: Exactly. I want to get it done because it's time and time is money. Time is cost. You can have so much more comfortable. Howard Farran: Okay. Realizing Louis that you're talking to so
October 27, 2015
by howard
Podcast
insurance too. He has a million dollars as malpractice insurance. Is the lawyer going to sue the dentist too or is the lawyer going to say well the dentist asked the physician what to do and the physician said to do this, so we’ll just sue the physician, or would the lawyer lose his law
October 16, 2015
by howard
Podcast
door. Let’s say dental Walley World sets up across the street. I don’t give a shit. Every new patient that walks in there, an old one is going to walk right out the back door. Nobody has been able to keep a patient happy. Dentistry hurts. It can look funny. There’s insurance. I did
October 28, 2015
by howard
Podcast
larger practices because I think that fear is the major issue. I think dentists always think about price, they always think about insurance, should I take this PPO or whatever but there's a lot of people where fear is a ... Fear is hugely irrational, they might come in with 20 body piercings and 10
October 14, 2015
by howard
Podcast
Ripa, cute girl and I'm going to tell you name you don't even know. Andres: Come on. I've already drawn, they're all cute. Come on, you're 75. You're blessed as I can see and it wasn't cute. Ronald: There is a story to my best friend Alan Finkelstein in New York. He is a guru of insurance, the United
October 26, 2015
by howard
Podcast
think the whole hygiene mentality has to change that. I’m not going to do anything twice a year to change anything. Same thing with bypass. Have you see those studies on bypasses of twins where one person gets the hundred thousand dollar bypass and the other one, do to health insurance, couldn
October 30, 2015
by howard
Podcast
until you incur it. The mani-pedi shop doesn't have to pay their rent, equipment bill, computer, insurance on your appointment today verses your mani-pedi 2 years from now. It's completely bat-shit crazy. It's cultural. Geoffrey Hall: We actually had a company in Australia that does exactly what your
October 29, 2015
by howard
Podcast
? Anissa: Three million and there are three hundred dentists. Howard: Oh my. Anissa: You know, it's really interesting. Yes, it's really interesting because what I love about it, which you know, honestly is that patients here really own their dental work and so, it's not about what is my insurance going
October 27, 2015
by howard
Podcast
? Will you help me? My insurance will pay 80%, and Matt, the bottom line is, half the dentists out there won't do a molar endo. Matt: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Howard: Talk to that kid. She's telling me that she's got $250,000 in student loans, but I'm looking at her production. It's like, she refers out
October 21, 2015
by howard
Podcast
. They're not back to 2008 levels. Do I assume you don't take dental insurance, or do you? John: No, we do. We're a fee-for-service practice but we'll fill out the forms. Howard: You'll fill out the forms and they submit them, or you submit them? John: No, we'll submit them. Howard: You'll submit them? I'm
October 13, 2015
by howard
Podcast
. They're not addressing the legal malpractice. Most experts believe that probably 75% of all x-rays are taken to cover your ass from lawyers. Vance Costello : That's it. Howard Farran: CYA from lawyers. We probably spend 30% of the American healthcare cost just on administrating insurance
October 08, 2015
by howard
Podcast
just has this one broken tooth. We'll just fix that, and that'll max out our insurance for 2015, and we'll just do 1 tooth dentistry. How do you get him to psychologically, or her psychologically, to have the enthusiasm and say, Oh my God, let's just get you all fixed up? Deana: I don't work
October 06, 2015
by howard
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