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. There were a dozen on NASDAQ, and then they all fell apart. They were gone for a decade. Now they're all back with a vengeance, and a lot of people are saying, that the way to fight, or to compete against these guys, is you've got to have a niche market, and you shouldn't take insurance, and you
September 14, 2015
by howard
Podcast
insurance reimbursement as their main income stream. Without participating in every PPO, and usual customer unreasonable re-adjustment fee that came along. It'd be the best time ever to be fee for service, insurance independent dentist, if that's what they chose to do. I'd never say to somebody, that's
September 15, 2015
by howard
Podcast
to about 7,000 dentists. Of these 7,000 dentists, how many dentists have you been with in the last 44 years, would you guess? Jay White: Oh, I've lost track. Over 10,000 probably. Howard Farran: Okay, so most of these guys are in denial. So let's start there. You've got to admit you have a problem
September 09, 2015
by howard
Podcast
is their insurance policy. How a mastermind’s “Fire Drill” can protect your business from future disasters. The incredible power of relationships. The Secrets to Creating Real Estate Wealth with Jason Medley On this episode of Dentist Freedom
September 09, 2015
by drdavidphelps
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. The Mastery Company has been in existence since 1984. Dr. Cooper's client experience in dentistry includes solo private practice, small partnered practices, managed group practices and retail corporate enterprises. Dr. Cooper has worked with numbers of health care entities such as insurance
September 11, 2015
by howard
Podcast
clients, the biggest thing we're dealing with right now is insurances, the regulatory issues that come along with it, and making the schedule work to be profitable while working on a PPO plan or even an HMO fee schedule. A lot of dentists twenty years ago, the norm you saw one patient, your fee
September 01, 2015
by howard
Podcast
saying, I do low-cost dentistry. I take insurance, I take HMOs, I take PPOs and I'm extremely successful. Many people through mud and dirt at you and you just smiled and grinned all the way to the bank. You held your ground, you never budged and I just thought to myself, My god, you're an amazing
September 03, 2015
by howard
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, but they get really low reimbursements from the insurance companies, so they don't treat. It's like less than two dollars per tooth treated, so that's why they don't do it. Howard: Do you think they have a lot of periodontal disease because it hasn't been treated or are there other factors that ... Do
September 30, 2015
by howard
Podcast
an independent contractor within my 401K if I'm offering health insurance. I don't have to worry about that person's health insurance at that point and it could probably also make them pay their liability insurance and some of those other things. Howard: The FICA matching is 7.5% is it? Mike
September 21, 2015
by howard
Podcast
to give out our secret sauce away, Adam. You give me a look if this is bad. What they search is insurances. They search specifically by insurances, and I know a lot of doctors want to move away from insurances, but you're swimming upstream because patients are moving towards, they're searching
September 30, 2015
by howard
Podcast
? Or, How much for a crown? In the US the first question that is asked is, Do you take my insurance? Do you take X, Y, Z? Do you take Delta? Do you take this? The girl answering the phone misses what the true question is. Down here when they say, How much for a clean?, they're not asking a price they're
September 16, 2015
by howard
Podcast
charitable family who wanted to make a difference, at first in the cleft palette community and they found the one area that all these kids were missing or where their insurance wouldn't cover it was with braces. It really transitioned to braces. I think they've treated over 5,000 kids now throughout
September 17, 2015
by howard
Podcast
messy and we just had a big to do about this too, of getting information from out of this room to the ladies at the front so they can develop a treatment pla because they know what the insurance is. If there's insurance or not insurance. They know that and they know what the insurance is and what we
September 10, 2015
by howard
Podcast
as much as we could about the practices. How they were handling their payabels, how they were handling their cashflow, we were looking at insurances, we were looking at AR, we were looking at pretty much everything that we could in order to learn as much about the business as we could so that we
September 14, 2015
by howard
Podcast
the dentist to be trained. They expect the staff to be attentive to their needs, and be able to take care of them from managing their bills, to their insurance, to their appointments. I think there's a higher level of expectation out there, and I think there's a lot of opportunity. It doesn't mean
September 25, 2015
by howard
Podcast
not collecting insurance coop rates, or they're over treating people or they're somewhere cutting a corner. That is also handing the embezzler a get out of jail free card. We see a lot of embezzlers who turn around and report their doctor to the state board and sometimes it's probably justified
September 10, 2015
by howard
Podcast
when I have to do a molar root canal for that? I had to do it three times because I'd had to do it twice to pay the rent, mortgage, inaudible 00:20:34, computer, insurance, malpractice and only the third one got your damn purse. How would you coach a male dentist to have a conversation
September 02, 2015
by howard
Podcast
camera number one. Howard: What percent of the dentists, do you think, have an intraoral camera in every room? Labor averages about 24%, by the time you cost, all inclusive costs of medical insurance and 401K and uniforms and all those ills, it's about 28%. Then any office I go into the doctors say oh
September 23, 2015
by howard
Podcast
are near the end of retirement, have over a million in their retirement accounts and are just figuring out how do they live off of this for the rest of their life. What are the prudent things they should be doing in terms of insurance or disability or long term care. Howard: I was asking how much
September 22, 2015
by howard
Podcast
insurance, so would got the $100,000 coronary artery bypass graft, CBG, where they take the graft out of your … coronary artery bypass graft out of your leg vein and put it in your heart. The other twin didn't have the insurance but decided to quit smoking, lose weight, started exercising
September 07, 2015
by howard
Podcast
. Then I say no, no, no, no. Half of America doesn't even have dental insurance. Why don't you just spend 3-4% on marketing to get in people that don't even have dental insurance? They're like no, I don't know. I don't know about that. Dentists should be driving to work thinking okay, I collect a dollar
September 18, 2015
by howard
Podcast
. But, I'm seeing it. I know dentists who are doing this ... James: As an aside with that, we do have a Korean affiliate of the AACD, and they're very active and very vocal, and they love us. They have a different deal with dental insurance there, some in Japan, as well. Some is paid for by the state
September 21, 2015
by howard
Podcast
to insurance companies that we really have lost our ability to understand the labyrinthine complexity of the root canal system. It's just simply staggering that people undertake treatment with a single x-ray or a badly-angulated film or a foreshortened, elongated, or cone cut. Whatever. That's where cone
September 15, 2015
by howard
Podcast
, I still believe in group practices or small private practices. I believe just in the attitude that you see, it's a different type of attitude. First of all, I think, without being political, I think you're seeing things, like Edmund Byne Humana, insurance companies buying hospitals. You're going
September 04, 2015
by howard
Podcast
of these courses, no fear about it. When you go to a course that's given by one of the insurance companies, malpractice attorneys and they really hammer to you about all the medical, legal lawsuits about implant dentistry, it's true, you do have to be very careful. The number 1 step that you should do
September 28, 2015
by howard
Podcast
is a molar root canal. A lot of them, I'll be honest with you, a lot of them feel like they have to do them because they don't want to be a good salesman. The patients come to you saying that I got a toothache. It's not like trying to sell someone bleaching, bonding or veneers. The insurance pays 80
September 23, 2015
by howard
Podcast
cavities to turn into 3 root canals, and if you can't afford 3 root canals, you'll be back at my door needing 3 extractions. Did you ever get those done? And then they're saying, Oh yeah, yeah. Because the patient may have been thinking after I pull these 4 wisdom teeth and max out my insurance then I
September 22, 2015
by howard
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