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Amy d. Amy Deschamps has over 25 years in dentistry working in every aspect except as a doctor or hygienist. She was one of the top consultants at Mercer for a number of years. She's recently built a practice management consulting firm that focuses on 4 major...
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
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Mellisa d. Melissa has spent the last 30 years working and perfecting a system to manage dental insurance within a dental office. She is the boss at her husbands dental practice in Virginia Beach running a 2.8 million dollar operation. Needless to say, she knows
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
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melissa 2 Melissa appeared on episode 44 and since then, we've been flooded with emails to have her come back on and answer a ton of questions. During this episode, Melissa covers 3 main areas: 1. Adequate dental insurance inquirey - Basically gathering all
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
Mark Costes Dr. Mark Costes is far from a typical dentist and dental coach. During his career, he has been able to start or acquire over a dozen successful dental practices during some of the profession's most challenging times. But Dr. Costes's journey was not...
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
-payment? Or can you waive patient co-payments? 4. Protecting yourself against insurance abuse. Tips on obtaining an inexpensive and powerful legal retainer. 5. Eliminate your PPO fees and replace it with your UCR (Standard Fees/FFS) These each are hot and controversial topics. Ben shares his opinion
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
of the present system of insurance and billing. Working in both the medical and dental billing environment allows Dr. Lipsey to help communicate an easy to understand philosophy of what it takes to build a successful dental sleep medicine practice and keep it thriving with successful billing
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
for dentists including lectures, articles, podcasts, and webcasts. He lectures internationally on clinical dentistry, practice management, and leadership development. Selected lectures may be viewed here. During this lecture Chris gives his perspective of the insurance industry as it relates
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
practice to a fully insurance independent dental office. Chris shares great tips and suggestions on how you can solicit patient referral opportunities by making sure that patients first have a great experience with you and your team. To learn more form Chris, visit his website. You can email Chris
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
Howard While this is not an insurance related topic we felt that it was important for us to invite a friend and mentor, Dr Howard Farran to our show. During this episode Dr Farran talks about the power of using humor in your presentation. For those who have
September 01, 2017
by Jordon Comstock
Podcast
… Alex: Yeah. Well, not a (inaudible 0:06:52) Howard: Okay, $1 = AUD$0.80. So, AUD$0.80 So, when I got out of school thirty years ago, a crown was $1000. You would submit your $1000 and the insurance pay half. Now, the insurance companies send you the fee and 95% of the dentists in America
September 12, 2017
by howard
Podcast
pressures with health insurance companies and I always call them health insurance companies. Howard: Bupa? Toni: Bupa is a big one. Howard: Bupa is now buying offices. Toni: Bupa has already owns about two hundred eighty offices in Australia. Howard: So, it's really competitive. Toni: Streamline. Howard
September 22, 2017
by howard
Podcast
have a mini corporation, meaning I can have multiple offices that I can provide an ideal office for a new graduate to come in and work. Then we can work on not having to sign up with all the insurances. So it's a difficult time. I think with insurances, with the technology for you to be able
September 03, 2017
by howard
Podcast
. We have all the insurance and all the schedule and there's no connection to accounting. Laura: I'll take it one more step. There's a statistic in Practice by Numbers that I absolutely love. Rohit, you can tell the exact one but it's like percentage of deposits where it's like it shows you how
September 05, 2017
by howard
Podcast
reimbursed and people want to be treated… Howard: That people don’t sound… they don’t realize that the X-ray machine was out for a long time, but the first dental insurance was the Longshoreman’s Club. There was a big union in America, and so basically, every ship container
September 08, 2017
by howard
Podcast
with something completely off the deep end. You’re the manufacturer of the VELscope. David: Yes, absolutely. Howard: And you make that now? David: We do. We manufacture in Burnaby, British Columbia. Howard: So, I mean what I’ve never understood for thirty years is that dental insurance
September 06, 2017
by howard
Podcast
, who's not on insurance like David (inaudible 31:29) and say, how do you do that kinda thing? I just take out what's wrong and then replace what's wrong. Wally: That's rare though. No a lot of people… Howard: But 95% of dentists in America take Delta, which is a PPO. It's something like, I
September 01, 2017
by howard
Podcast
, in the last three years you let in ten percent more dentists just from Asia, you doubled the number of dental schools, corporate dentistry chains, medical insurance companies like Bupa building practices. It’s really changed in Australia, from a completely noncompetitive environment
September 14, 2017
by howard
Podcast
-on approach. They need specialized care in certain ways for instance maybe they we need to set up some different systems to make sure the insurance is being processed through properly or sterilization, everything is set up according to OSHA standards and so forth and so, we're finding that our clients
September 06, 2017
by howard
Podcast
is sleep breathing disorders on my list of things, but I don’t do a lot of that for this reason: it is really insurance driven and I don’t do insurance, they need to pay me upfront before we do them. That’s a different conversation in itself why I do that and all that and because I
September 02, 2017
by howard
Podcast
his rent, mortgage, (24:07 inaudible), computer, insurance, all that stuff. For that assistant to be able to clean up a room and set up a room in half the time is everything. Solo burs throw away, and we were alluding to earlier, on the bur trays you have a bur tray that has twelve burs, you
September 17, 2017
by howard
Podcast
because it's pure dentistry. There's no insurance, there's no worrying about this and that, it's just pure in itself and then you realize that dentistry in it's pure sense is different from what it is that's taught in schools. That’s true dentistry. You don’t have to worry about billing, you
September 04, 2017
by howard
Podcast
, insurers, veteran affairs, government outsourcing, public private partnership things, private health insurances and most of all affordability, we try and work over payment terms and payment plans, which we’re well-known for, over a period time. So people can either pay off their specific dental
September 22, 2017
by howard
Podcast
a provider number which means that people can claim their treatment with their health insurance. So our hygiene association is looking at their petitioning, and writing things so that the government can look at that as a potential future opportunity where a hygienist can have a provider number
September 22, 2017
by howard
Podcast
, it has a lot to do there with National Health Insurance. In the UK, traditional crown and bridge work is reimbursed, whereas, when it comes to dental implants it’s not. So, opposite this place, a row or two. But I will also say, it has a lot to do with the philosophy of the dentists. You
September 10, 2017
by howard
Podcast
to 2017, and your country basically doubled the number of Dental schools to nine, let in a thousand Dentists from Asia, corporate Dentistry has come in, and then something very, very unique to Australia is the health insurance companies like Bupa are now in several hundred Dental offices. So
September 26, 2017
by howard
Podcast
, are you give me a shot, is it gonna hurt? can you put me out? can you give me nitrous or whatever.’ The other half go into fear of cost ‘oh my god how much does that cost? I don't have insurance I don't get paid till Friday.’ So, it's just fear of pain and fear costs is the two huge
September 22, 2017
by howard
Podcast
just doesn't cut it for most people. So, the pressure's gone on performance, we're seeing higher litigation, certainly here in Australia, we've seen different insurance companies now responding to that by; if you're doing implants the premiums are going up. So, you put all those factors together and I
September 20, 2017
by howard
Podcast
Relation, doing marketing, doing recall, in many cases you’re doing collection whether it's from the insurance companies or from people. Well then of course you have trouble. Of course marketing is something like saving, which everybody does when there's something left over, which you and me
September 02, 2017
by howard
Podcast
foreign Dentists, you doubled your number of Dental schools, you have corporate Dentistry, you have medical insurance, companies like BOOP buying Dental offices. It's massively competitive now. Rachel: It’s hugely competitive and look, these days you are lucky if you're eighty percent full
September 18, 2017
by howard
Podcast
. When you are in London, Paris and Tokyo the government bill insurance gives you $100 for root canal. America, Delta sets your fee and ninety-five percent of dentists take Delta. So in all reality ninety-five percent of general dentists are on a PPO, eighty percent of dentists are on two PPO’s
September 11, 2017
by howard
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