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At what amount of money invested would you consider dropping your disability insurance? I met with my CPA/financial advisor and he said I was fine dropping it with my accounts and debt. I am 41 and house and practice are paid off. Only debt is commercial real estate and renovations to my practice
May 29, 2025
Disability Insurance
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Hey all, I have heard the OM at the office I work at make a couple calls today, and it seems that Insurance Companies are making lots of random excuses to avoid even acknowledging claims. This is guy is a pro, and I feel bad just listening to him make calls. Anyone else having this issue? Acknowledging vs Ignoring is the game unfortunately :)
March 27, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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We've always done our billing in-house. Now I'm interested in at least reading about having a third party do the billing. We use Carestream Practiceworks, if that matters. We are by and large a insurance-based practice, with about 2000 active patients, and growing. The vast majority of the front
March 21, 2025
Billing
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We have been with Dental Xchange for many, many year, but their customer service within the last year has hit an all time low. So we are looking for alternatives. What are you guys using, and how truly happy are you with their work and customer service? Thank you. John York Arab, AL I also had...
April 16, 2025
Claims Processing
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I do mentoring for students going into dental school and for dental school students and one of them just told me it was being recommended to him to get disability insurance while in school so they can get a discount and have lower rates. Any thoughts on this as I did not have a knowledgable answer
April 23, 2025
Disability Insurance
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Just had a thought today that Im paying close to $5000 per month on all of these various insurancesHealth insurance for a family of 5Home insuranceAuto insuranceMalpractice insuranceBuilding insuranceContents insuranceWorkers compDisability insuranceLife insuranceWho knows how many more policies I
March 26, 2025
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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insurance. Not sure if that works with DD. To get technical, most insurance contracts require you accept their patients. Now, what are they going to possibly do if you breach this and Delta cares? Drop you from the network....oh darn, sounds like that is the path you are on anyway. Now, from a practice
September 24, 2025
Delta Dental
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Is this legal? I gave a 90 days notice to an Insurance company to terminate the PPO contract and they said I cannot terminate the contract for 2 years from the date, They negotiated for a fee increase in JAN after 11 years but because of their recent bullying I send a termination letter, I received
October 05, 2025
PPOs and HMOs
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I wonder if anyone can tell me how to generate a report for production/collection per insurance in Dentrix. I had done it years ago but just can't remember how anymore. Thinking about dropping couple of them and wanna not doing blind. Thx! Bobby Any Dentrix users that can help out Bobby
October 09, 2025
PPOs and HMOs
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Anyone have a good Break up letter to send patients when you are dropping the insurance company that they have? We are dropping being in network? with Metlife/ Aetna because they refuse to raise our fee schedule. Thanks! I would put the bit about still submitting insurance and them still being
June 27, 2025
PPOs and HMOs
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What is the law when it comes to insurance claims and submission post sale? The seller is not credentialed and claims it will take a couple of months. I know it's "nice" to let them keep filing under your name but what is the legal? Anyone know the answer to this? Thanks ! Not my area of expertise
January 08, 2026
Practice Sales
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How much insurance is recommended for a one location dental practice with over 10,000 patients? assuming we want business interruption, ransomware coverage, everything included. We use the Hartford for business insurance but they seem to have a 500k limit and I hear it can be over 1.5 million
January 22, 2026
Computer Maintenance
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Metdental has recently changed their website portal for both in network and out of network dental offices to view patient benefits, eligibility, and claim status to a platform that allows anyone from anywhere to be able to create login credentials with any dental office's TIN and no control over...
January 19, 2026
PPOs and HMOs
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Does anyone have a letter that they send to patients reminding them to use their benefits for unscheduled treatment before the end of the year? This is what we use. Sample End of Year Dental Insurance Letter: Dear (insert patient’s name), Gental Dental provides our patients with the best care
December 05, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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. Side question: Is your prophy fee truly $300? Kudos to you if you charge and collect that from insurances and patients Technically yes, thats my UCR. Anytime a patients insurance pays the full amount-> that is an indicator it is time to raise my UCR. I give a lot of discounts to patients, but I do
December 08, 2025
PPOs and HMOs
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I was told that some insurance companies are wanting a Pano or (Full mouth) for a post implant crown seat? I would think a single PA radiograph would be sufficient of that single implant crown. Does anyone know if this is true? Also, if doing a filling, are insurance companies requiring a PA
March 02, 2026
Billing
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We have been using Dental Xchange for years, and last year we added NexHealth for insurance verification. NexHealth seems to be going ok, but maybe not great. Someone told me that Vyne is better for insurance verification than NexHealth, and looking at Vyne's website it appears they may do
March 18, 2026
Software Discussions
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Hi Has anyone used the Insurance Verification service from Over Jet AI? What has your experience been? We are currently doing everything via phone and fax, we have Vyne and they do automated breakdowns but its kind of clunky. Overjet is telling me that they are directly connected with payors
October 31, 2025
Claims Processing
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now (this part sux). When we send the claim, it sits in queue until 8:45 pm every night when all claims are batch sent by EDS to insurance companies. If we make an error, we can easily reject the claim in EDS as long as it's before 8:45 pm. Now to the part that sux: HS1 increases the monthly price
April 30, 2026
Claims Processing
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PSA for every dentist who has ever worked for a DSO. Go look yourself up. Right now. Open Google, search your name plus 'dentist,' then go to the provider directory pages for the three or four insurance carriers you take. I'll wait. Did you find yourself attached to offices you haven't set foot
May 18, 2026
Dental Insurance for Dentists
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current humana patients, you may have to collect in full all payments for services at the time of service and have the assignment of benefits aka check go directly to the patient. "Ms./Mr. X, your insurance company is not a reliable payer and through their own incompetency has borderline defrauded our
May 21, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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one of many who have), it is not a fun place to be in. I am fortunate to have found a good therapist and good psychiatrist to help me out. Interestingly, both are out of network and my psychiatrist doesn't even file insurance. The problem is that many of these meds are prescribed by MDs who know
August 10, 2017
Stress Management
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of the west. Reid is just a partisan political hack . Its great that he is Mormon. Still he is no Brigham Young. Trey Gowdy always has best responses. That was a good oneHas Don moved on past Denial? History will undoubtedly say that the Comey announcement that the FBI
October 31, 2016
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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stupid or at least acting stupid is a positive cultural attribute there. Rick Perry..ooops....W bush....my lord.. It happens in a lot of places. I post this because it is happening more and more in the US, much more than 50 years ago. We are changing. Americans are mostly in denial. We are a poorer
February 22, 2021
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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wrong. This is the extremely narrow education discussed on the how many books do you read thread. Its fascinating reading the evolution of this thread from the first post in late January 2020. Its a written journey into the Five Stages of Grief. From originally downplaying it by many (Stage 1-Denial
July 05, 2020
Coronavirus (Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2)
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are simply in denial about ball of this. It's a shitshow..and your clown is the maestro. Your magical thinking at this point means zero. Basically like doing a FM reconstruction on a patient..it all starts breaking in 3 years...and then you get pissed that the patient is complaining
August 11, 2020
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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heard that to a lesser extent with Oz. We really did not hear that with Kari Lake. The denial here is spectacular, and gives excellent insight into why the R's lost. And will continue to lose if they don't shift gears. And soon. We will get what we deserve. This election should have been
November 15, 2022
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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be the real one, and there is never a really rational reason to prove one over another. But denial, of the obvious, once learned, is easy to do..just like climate change denial. Once you learn to deny the obvious, it. becomes a fantastic tool for the rest of your life.I watch it here and particularly
July 31, 2022
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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every direction. Denial is a common response to really bad news. Denial is a part of it. But there have plenty of wars we've been lied into in the past. Colin Powell and the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, for instance. This time it turns out they were telling
February 28, 2022
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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may have been AZ I was thinking about. RCP has no polling data on the CO race yet. Im not denying any wrongdoing on Trumps part. The denial in this discussion is that the purpose of a raid on his home was simply to retrieve documents. The purpose of the 1/6 D prime time circus. The impeachment
August 21, 2022
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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typed. Gosh, where would you or Sibs GET these far fetched ideas? Prolly the REAL issue is, you READ what he posted and actually ADDRESSED his point with a COUNTERPOINT that in true Ram fashion gets chased down the rabbit hole of the RamZone of denials. Stand by for further denials with a BP thumbs up
July 01, 2025
Politics
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with Epstein. I'm pretty sure he's still in denial that Israel is doing anything wrong. The networks didn't spend enough to make it work. If only they had given it more time, and spent what was needed. Colbert was close to having a breakout show, but the higher ups had no vision. They need to be forward
July 23, 2025
Politics
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Is it legal to charge a reduced fee for new cash patients? Then charge a new insurance patient a full array of fees (either PPO or FFS)? I know this subject has been talked about, but the posts I've found are pretty old. No It is insurance fraud Yes I see competitors doing
February 16, 2019
Ask a Dental Consultant
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Rob and Paul host Vivek Kinra, CEO of PPO Profits, a firm solely dedicated to increasing the PPO insurance reimbursements for dentists. In the episode, Vivek speaks with Paul and Rob about best practices for the insurance credentialing and fee schedule negotiation process (including a little
September 26, 2019
by Rob Montgomery
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Mike McAninch is a Practice Integration Advisor with, where he specializes in helping dentists connect their money and their values to realize their most important financial goals. From time to time, a dental client will share with me a life insurance illustration from an agent touting
July 18, 2018
by Buckingham Strategic Wealth
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When Is Insurance Not Really Insurance? When You Need Pricey Dental Care.
May 21, 2018
Medicaid and Welfare Issues
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alternatives. In these embedded plans, how does the payment work? I've always told my patients that medical and dental insurance are near opposites. Medical steps in and covers everything after you reach your deductible and dental covers everything until your max and nothing after. Prior to a patient
October 28, 2014
Dental Insurance for Dentists
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Considering the fact that we are all living in the modern world and are well acquainted with the modern protocols of living a healthy and safe life, we are all aware of health insurance. Health insurance is not only the process of safeguarding your health by getting access to skilled
November 06, 2023
by FFD419
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view their practice. First, recognize that the thought process of how to compete against DSOs is different with PPO negotiations and insurance participation than it is with other areas of practice management. Buying computers and gloves in bulk with many individual offices for discounted rates
July 15, 2015
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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sure but most is past time where insurance will cover anything. She finally gets the denial back and called back pissed.......... at us because we should have known she had insurance. I'm not suppose to be responsible for all this. I want my money back , its your fault the insurance didn't pay
November 03, 2015
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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(or more). Insurance companies in Canada will pay the same for a denture made by a dentist or by a denturist. A denturist has no more incentive to go to the underserved area or the poor (ya still haven't defined this) than a dentist. Are denturists flocking to remote communities? Are they focusing
February 13, 2019
Ethical Issues
Dentaltown Magazine
bought a small home instead of buying the “dream home.” Wish I bought life insurance and disability when I was younger and healthier. Wish I didn’t buy that swanky car
2014 New Grad Edition
by Douglas Carlsen, DDS
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fillings touched up! As I walked out, in more pain than I went in, I was given my referrals, and said I needed to pay an amount of about $80 before I left. Why? I have delta dental, although not super amazing insurance, they pay $1,000 of dental work every 6 month's. So, not only did they take
May 09, 2016
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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with Tim: give them a chance, (but probably only one). Have a discussion, as Howard suggests, put the cards on the table. If they're still in denial, THEN gently show them the door, but a knee-jerk GTFOOMO isn't appropriate every time. WW It seems am going the reverse direction of you howard. Early
May 15, 2015
Restorative Dentistry
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of patients who have come to the end of their days. People grow a lot when faced with their own mortality, the anonymous nurse writes on EmpowerNetwork.com. She says the emotional changes a dying person experiences are phenomenal, ranging from denial to remorse, fear to anger and eventually
April 20, 2015
Family
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-orally; landed him in the hospital for a week. MDs told the wife it had nothing to do with dental infections; hmmmmmmm. I told her it did. I'm trying to manage him with perio trays and direct-resin bridge work for now. Clearly not SOC but he is happy for now as he is in denial about a lot
November 09, 2014
Geriatric Dentistry
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the dentist that they choose. It is very difficult once you make changes and the older employees refuse to adapt. Her current employer is in denial that this is happening so good luck with the notification. Yeah, I understand that I can't stop the patient from leaving. I just want it to stop
May 31, 2015
Staff Management Issues
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, all you’ll get would be resistance, skepticism or denial (a straight no in your face). Remember, it will take time and patience. Not all HIPAA Security implementations can be done at the same time or right away. We techs need to hear the other party and help them make the right decisions
February 18, 2015
Computer Hardware
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, I personally have been very reluctant to return. For a few reasons: my long term trusted baby sitter moved. My workplace (a large corporate/CA) has guidelines for our protection which are nothing short of complete denial of existence of COVID: NO extra precautions other than N95 for a KNOWN case
September 03, 2020
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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opinion, the first molar and the implant has to go and two proper implant needs to be placed.Laz I agree. I think the surgeon knew it but was maybe in denial. Unfortunately its not like redoing a short fill on a root canal. I would sayfortunatelyit's not like re-doing a short RCT fill. Often an RCT
July 10, 2021
Implantology
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