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with unmotivated staff. I'd agree with the other people to consider doing the following: 1. Drop one day. Focus on working on your office, instead of at your office. This can be administration, strategy, tracking metrics, practice restructuring...or just taking a walk. 2. Start dropping insurances. Start
May 27, 2026
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referrals mostly. Probably a large percentage of new patients are insurance driven new patients. Delta (premier) are probably a good portion of the new patients and makeup up 30% of the practice currently. I have toyed around with the idea of dropping delta and if I don't go the associate route I
February 04, 2026
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So the partnership structure that we have is I believe pretty standard. We have an overarching partnership entity which is an LLC and then I have my own personal LLC (S filing elected) and my partner has his LLC (S filing elected) that each own 50% of the Partnership entity. Our local insurance
December 22, 2022
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I'm in a partnership and my partner is more cautious than I want to be when dropping insurances. We are both booked out almost 2 months. Hygiene is almost in 2023. We needed to drop yesterday. Right now we are planning to go in network with careington and the drop the plans under that umbrella
August 15, 2022
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graft that. Seriously, Ive seen similar stuff and it happens quite a bit. Most doctors are in denial. They just dont see them after catastrophic failures. Patients just go elsewhere. Mark I was an associate at Affordable right out of school. Was there for almost two years. I (regrettably) agreed
September 29, 2022
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Brought on new associate, looking at this firm- does any one have any experience? Here is their link: http://www.insurancecredentialing.com/ics/
October 21, 2015
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I am considering hiring a part time associate. I assume that they have to be a provider for the insurance companies at my location even though they are a provider already at another location. Does this make the PPO/FFS status the same? What if they come from a hmo mill at their other job? Do
August 11, 2014
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. They are not independent contactors. Maybe if they were a specialist who brought in there own equipment and staff you could maybe 1099 them. The associate is another employee entailed to all of the benefits you offer other staff members 401k, health insurance, etc. Form your own S Corp. Have them pay you total
October 21, 2024
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I leased space from a dentist 13 years ago. I built up my own practice. I do take a lot of insurance. He is a dentist that has been practicing for 36 years and only takes delta dental premier. I bought his patients and the building and he would like to work 2 days a week. I would like to bring
November 04, 2015
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relative. Benefits such as CE, medicaid insurance and PTO are all meaningless without knowing the whole picture. Example, Jefferson dental offers Medical insurance for their employees but the premium is taken out ofpaycheck for all those who sign up. So do they really over medical insurance
June 22, 2024
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back from a practice owners perspective. Thanks for your time. I'm sorry to hear about this, do you have disability insurance? I'm sure you can find very sporadic work by reaching out to local practices but I don't think you'll find much. Have you considered alternative routes of income. You could
October 05, 2021
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this being in the renewal contract. Advice is appreciated in advance. Dentist acknowledges that amounts paid may be subject to recoupment in the event erroneous or impermissible charges for services are processed by dentist and are later discovered and/or disallowed on audit by an insurance carrier
April 28, 2021
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I have my first dentist associate. How do I bill insurance for them? Do I bill insurance under my name? Or both our names? Or just the associate's name? Thanks! Most dentists in your position will have a PLLC or LLC or PC (or whatever) corporation set up. Get a billing NPI for the corporation
April 13, 2017
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a pay check off of this potential. Maybe a different deal would be made for the rare case where the associate grows the practice on his/her own by accepting additional insurances or self marketing, etc.
February 15, 2026
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though multiple parties have asked. 2. Appreciate your denial of recruitment bonuses. I have documents that state otherwise. We should take your word for it though, documents don't mean much. 3. Your positions do tend to fit the Imagen model though precisely. Use trusted Cerec and technology
January 08, 2025
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Hi guys I was offered to do a one day working interview for an associate position. Is there any legal issue for working in a dental office for one day without a contract? I asked for a simple contract. They don't seem to do that usually.. I did set up my liability insurance. Is there anything else
December 18, 2020
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practice in a town which has a high percentage of my patients as State of IL employees. As of right now we still take the State of IL insurance as a form of payment. State employees make up around 40% of my practice. The State is currently 2 years behind in their payments to providers, and they currently
June 16, 2017
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My partner and I have an associate joining us in the next month. Our largest PPO is not negotiating with our fees, reimbursement 60% of our current fees. Partner wants to drop insurance within next 6 months. I get the economics, but have concerns with new associate coming on board. Associate works
June 18, 2019
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I am a fee for service practice.. I am a GP, 54 yrs old. My partner is 67 and a prosthodontist. Was thinking of hiring an associate and having him do insurance work so we could get him booked quicker. Problem is, my partner and I could be booked more solidly, and we don't want to lose any new fee
May 13, 2016
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A new associate is coming in next month one day a week. He is asking me to pay his malpractice insurance. Is it common for an associate DDS ask for malpractice insurance? He says his previous employers provided it so he has not had to purchase any. Any advice? Thanks I've only ever had my
March 21, 2015
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that hold's the note to see what they could do in terms of financing my buy-in. I just received their offer today and it looks pretty good but they are requesting additional collateral above assignment of life-insurance and stated that they believe additional insurance would be best. They suggested either
June 05, 2018
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... I would love to know the answer to this question. I'm an associate getting paid on production and even though our fee for an exam is around 39 dollars, apparently insurance companies don't pay anything. My boss is trying to take exams out of my production and not pay me for it. But I'm still
December 27, 2014
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compensation is as follows 30% production -$165for each cerec crown I do -all insurance write offs -all lab bill/fees I thought this sounded like a great deal at first and I have been making okay money, not great by any means but better thancorporate. I calculate my net compensation before
August 04, 2017
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I'm currently an associate working on a buy out arrangement. In the mean while I'm being paid as an associate. I get paid based upon adjusted production, but the office manager figures my total production multiplies by 30% ( compensation rate) then subtracts the insurance write offs. In the past
January 13, 2017
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License Fee ($350) DEA License Fee ($750) 80% of Health Insurance Premium (around $2,880) 3% Match to Simple IRA (up to $12,500
February 22, 2018
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by lecturing in your local dental schools, by helping making decisions in state board of dentistry, by meeting in the ADA. Because even those corps have corp associations and have meeting sponsored by insurance companies. Don't sit there and complain, DO SOMETHING! And next time when you meet
August 20, 2016
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agreeable for membership patients? I know you're not collecting any more from patients but I think that'd be fair.If he examines a pt with insurance how much is he paid for the exam? If he receives payment for the exam on insurance pt then he should get the same fee for these in office discount plan
March 24, 2017
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a shingle tomorrow and tried to figure it all out himself that first year. Has anyone given a base salary with bonuses based on collection or production? What did you base the bonus on? What sorts of costs have you covered for your associate? Health insurance, 401k, malpractice insurance
June 20, 2014
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minimum guarantee (calculated from 400 being equal to 30% of $1350 daily production) -Practice covers lab fees unless I use a different lab -Health insurance: Practice pays 50% of premiums of practice group health insurance. -Simple IRA plan with 3% match -Practice sponsored CE provided
April 13, 2017
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to screen patients before I establish a provider-patient relationship. I may choose to decline patients for any reason regardless of my clinical ability/interest in treatment and mgmt of their condition. This is definitely also a win for the declined patients, as I won't charge them or their insurance
October 01, 2023
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Does anyone have a list of items for their new associate to do their first month? We've already set up NPI, DEA #, Malpractice insurance. Getting him set up as a provider in Dentrix this week. How about for the associate to complete: Example: know where the emergency kit is, which
July 01, 2015
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I live abroad but my next boss told me he wants me to be the manager of the pedo dept. i love working with kids and he told me that i will be a practice in a practice. I am nervous bc he says i will hire assistants, insurance managers etc.. i just want to know how to not screw this up. i am from US
November 10, 2017
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about this means they play dental experts on TV. Posts like this infuriate me because there are hundreds if not thousands of dentists who think their advisors are experts and they turn out not to be. This situation should be covered with suitable disability insurance, as well as term life insurance
November 17, 2021
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, billing etc)...plenty of patients to work 4-5 days a week running 2 columns of my own plus 1-2 hygienists that i oversee each day...I cant keep up...my OP appointments are booked out 3+ months (and i refer almost all endo and exts)...we see alot of state insurances and ppo...some of which we
May 10, 2015
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severely limit the number of patients he could see, as our practice is heavily insurance based, and Delta makes up about 70% of our insurance. It would be a big hit financially to him. Neither option is great...if associate were to choose to leave our office and work elsewhere, establish his
January 17, 2016
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they have crappy insurance. Thank you for sharing. Can you also share what is the policy if associate could not complete the case for e.g. leaves mid treatment. bumping this question for further feedback. anyone who can share those Invisalign contract/ ? I agree with you, you certainly asked a legit
March 24, 2023
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you need to send a letter or anything. just give your boss a written letter and a few weeks notice. glad to hear you're ending on good terms, usually it doesn't go that way. best of luck with the next step. this happens, handle er' like a pro... I'm assuming I need to notify several differentagencies about my move(professional liability insurance carrier, DEA, state board, insurance companies that I'm a provider for). Any other ideas?
September 10, 2015
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feel comfortable that the patients will transfer to your office location? Is your insurance mix similar? I agree with Tom's approach--put another way--here is the question--essentially, what is the value of the goodwill? Goodwill value is based upon the cash flow of the practice. Since
October 03, 2017
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reduction taken for insurance write off) - whichever was greater. The office proved to be not very busy, but the doctor wanted it covered for that one day. After working 7 days I got paid $3500 for the base pay, and a $200 additional check. The doctor explained that on only one day did I exceed
February 04, 2017
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. Staff costs through the roof, materials through the roof, insurance reimbursements flat or even down. Im busy, but I find Im working way harder to take home significantly less money compared to pre covid. Not to mention all the staffing headaches that covid has created that I never had issues before
June 26, 2023
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Two doctor partnership just formed. One doctor practicing for two years and systems set up for that doc to file ins. In process of setting up filing for second doc. Logistically, what is the easiest way to keep up with each docs net production and collections? File insurance separately and have
April 06, 2017
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is defined as my total production adjusted by a 30% reduction to account for non-reimbursable insurance charges, such as Medicaid, to which I will be compensated 30% of the adjusted production. I was originally told I would be moved to 30% production with some adjustments, but these seem like large
January 10, 2016
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. Youre influencing the poll! Its interesting to see some dentists would recommend the profession to everyone! Considering the insane cost of dental school these days, low insurance reimbursements, rising inflation/overhead and practice ownership headaches getting more complicated. Kudos to them! I
June 21, 2023
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$125K a month, 40-50 NPs and 8 hygiene days a week on 1600 active patients. I'm working 5 days a week and I don't want to get burnt out but at the same time I would like to avoid a situation where the associate is sitting around. 125k/mo collections? Any insurance participation?Have you tried working
December 24, 2018
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looks from those around you, but you do you. This doesnt happen all the time. Nothing happens all the time except me holding in my frustration when a patient asks why their insurance does no cover 33 veneers, my sisters insurance covered 33 veneers. What I want to say is . . . your sister
January 13, 2022
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and vertical, sinus lifts). THESE ARE ALL VERY DOABLE AS A GP, trust in yourself. I started from scratch accepting all insurances. When I had enough of a patient base, I slowly dropped each one. Many patients left (most of the PITA and the no shows with horrible insurance-thank goodness) but many
August 31, 2018
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. The practice is insurance driven, but participates with Last month we sat down and she is interested in me becoming 50% partner. In addition, I have the option of purchasing 50% of the commercial real estate (currently leased by our office and an ortho office next door). The practice produces $2
April 16, 2014
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totally unaware. The WID is working with an assistant they have never met or worked with in the past. The WID is working in a strange operatory with new equipment and materials. The WID is not credentialed with the insurance plans in the office. The WID does not have a relationship with the patients
January 11, 2022
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town like a crazy person. Learn everything you can about insurance and how to run the front (even if you aren't going to do it NOR be in network with insurance, because it is important to know HOW in case you need it). Scope out the payroll/HR costs in your area (AKA how much staff are getting paid
May 13, 2025
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I'm currently subleasing an office. My own office is burned, and it may take several months to repair the damage. Do I have to register my temporary office with the city, dental board and the IRS? Do I have to use the new address to bill the insurances? Thanks.
March 08, 2018
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