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Rereleasing one of DAT's most popular episodes! Kiera is joined by Tiffany at eAssist to talk all things outsourcing. eAssist is a remote dental billing company that offers a variety of services (like dental billing, patient billing, insurance verification). Together, Kiera and Tiffany touch
July 30, 2024
by The Dental A Team
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to be a part the ADA clique but I just can not justify spending my 2k/per year. The insurance companies continue to ruin my life and I feel that the ADA hasnt done anything to combat that. It annoys me that I cant go to conventions or be a part of the local society unless I join the ADA. Well, I have
March 07, 2023
Ethical Issues
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There is a long list of denial/ down playing. - we pretty much shut it down - it's going to disappear like a miracle - fifteen and in a couple days it will be nearly zero - the Corona virus, the new hoax - going to have vaccines relatively soon - we have tremendous control - anyone who wants a test gets
April 01, 2020
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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infrastructure...long term contracts..things the USA used to do. Yeah...woke goes nuts on occasion. Environmentalists do too... but the climate denial, covid denial..science denial crowd....they are far more dangerous. they ignore science...and they don't understand business really. China does. Trump
March 15, 2021
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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I see some pt when insurance covers only 80% of SRP and covers 100% adult prophy they want just regular cleaning. Some dr gets pt's sign on tx refusal form and do just prophy while some like myself can not justify that since it's a lot of work for a prophy and I can't see myselfcleaningjust
September 26, 2016
Periodontics
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recommended to have a night guard. she said she does not grind her teeth so she did not want one. The bridge is broken again and there is no good abutments to make new one. I told her I would make her a partial at no cost. Then she throws the news that her insurance has changed to an HMO so she
February 20, 2014
Fixed Prosthodontics
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dentists. It's about the alleged collusion to not discount, not about pricing alone. Bottom line, they can still decide not to offer discounts to groups of PP dentists. But must make that decision independent of their competitors. Is it only insurance companies that get away with this kind
February 17, 2018
Dentistry In The News
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going to be $77000 annually. $120000 salary -30000 taxes -48000 student loans -24000 health/disability/life insurance - of course you can go without these if you want to roll the dice. =$18000 to live the entire year, $42000 if you forego all insurances. Oh, and your friends that make 50-60k? Most
January 25, 2017
Financing School and Loan Repayment
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...they would find some kind of stupid mistake...even a spelling error...and they'd reject the claim...kicker is, they would hold the denial until time was just about up for filing, send it back to us and by time we got it, it was too late to refile.They always had some excuse for non-payment
May 05, 2008
Legal Issues
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approve, as have numerous others, including industrious dentists. Not the way any of us envisioned. If you don't like it, try to change it, that was my point. My generation was asleep and in denial long enough to allow these changes. The ADA allowed these changes. Nickc, don't like it? Change
January 27, 2018
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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) Sometimes, I think it's denial that a family member is so close to death that we don't need to worry about organ damage or addiction. My aunt has lung cancer, and it has spread to bone and will be terminal. She's having so much pain she can't sleep - can't find a comfortable position. I asked my dad how
August 08, 2023
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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sounds promising, but watch pitfalls. Those 3000 active patients might be inflatedcheck 18-month records or risk overpaying. Pending insurance claims can mess up cash flow if AR isnt clear in the contract. Sellers billing errors or Delta Premier status could lead to denials, hitting your $200k+ take
June 26, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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. It is easy for them because by the time a patient goes to see a periodontist, they have already been sold on the value of getting it treated. Insurance keeps fighting treating perio and patient out of pocket expenses keep going up, however, if I patient isn't willing to shell out $50 bucks for a perio
February 03, 2015
Periodontics
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-up and cost US taxpayers over $1 billion of FDIC insurance money.Should our President's immediate family connections to our enemies and to significant costs to our nation go with CF's approval? I think not. I think there should be greater scrutiny (INVESTIGATIONS) on the Bush family.CF would have
October 07, 2007
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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or if most of the reviews were fake. The person I spoke with said that the doctor does consultations for free, no insurance needed. So I schedule an appointment for next week. I go in there and the lady at the front desk asks me if I have insurance. I said I have recently purchased one
January 26, 2017
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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with plastics, ENTs, hospital administrators, and all of the medical types who want to protect their turf. Most of the ones that I know around here have given up orthognathic surgeries due to insurance hassles. Many limit their practice to 3rds and implants. Now, every new gp doc wants
January 29, 2017
Endodontics -- The ENDO Files
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and a mask mandate that started on August 30th. Now they only have 155 mask exemptions with 22 more pending applications (and no denials). Those opting out of the mask mandate are well under 1%. Friday they released that they had had 56 confirmed cases among students and staff on Thursday, down 45
September 27, 2021
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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-husband kicks you off his insurance policy, have no job, possibly no home in two weeks, and ask for a payment plan, you might be a red-flag patient. She broke into tears when informed that her remaining work would exceed her maximum benefits, anyway. Nothing fancy, just amalgams and composites
July 09, 2007
Jokes (Dirty and Political)
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, either with or without a laboratory smock. Inadequate personal hygiene. Unauthorized solicitation of goods or services to patients. Fraudulent billing of family members dental insurance for personal gain. Solicitation of patients to any other practice. Infection
May 28, 2024
Staff Management Issues
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to worry about racial discrimination..I can afford medical insurance and I'll probably be dead before the debt reckoning comes home to roost. It's good to be king! (white well off old man) I just like living in a country that doesn't completely fuck over half the population(even though I will never
October 09, 2020
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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Oh Im not saying its good for profession. This is bad. But we need to stop being in denial They most definitely can. We're not slaves. To the IRS, yes. It's why we are restricted from the Section 199 of the new tax law. I have zero experience with corporate. All I know is a very good friend
September 16, 2018
Ask a Dental Consultant
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on whether the investment arms are non-profits - charities, when little is spent on mission. More than half a billion was spent on the bailout of an insurance company - Beneficial Life. This is where it gets messy. Mormons are not the only ones with vast wealth. It is more difficult to determine
November 08, 2023
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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involves a dentist using identifiable personal information and details about specific procedures. I typed the word xray and exam (after the nonanonymous patient already stated xrays were taken) Argh!!!! Folks, it'sHIPAA, notHIPPA!!!!! OK, back to the story Health Insurance Portability
April 29, 2023
Dentist Websites
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that we all have a shadow side to our personality. As he wrote inArchetype and the Collective Unconscious, The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself. Our shadow aspects cause us anguish, and much of our mental energy is enlisted in the denial of our
January 23, 2019
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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in a radiographic or symptomatic form, and, by then, it’s just another one of those mysterious endo failures. Phrases like “cracked root” and “endo doesn’t work that well” get bruited about.” As dentists, we tend to live in denial. What we don’t see we
February 28, 2014
Endodontics -- The ENDO Files
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treatment is going to bite him in the *ss one day when someone gets really pissed that they spent $$$ on an implant that could have been spent saving some of the other teeth. Please don't be quick to blame the oral surgeon for a patient showing up like that. I have had many patients who are in denial about
May 13, 2017
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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of confederate statues as do I and (gasp!) many Democrats. The broad brush goes both ways. Many think anyone on the left is a socialist. Usually an innocent person would deny such a relationship. Have we seen any denial? Do you think he was a good pick for Homeland Security after
July 21, 2021
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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, so we need to discuss sedation or OR.. She's now fully glazed over, obviously upset that I've overstepped my boundaries, venturing into terriory that she's not wanting my opinion on. The rest of the story is almost irrelevant (five carious teeth, class III, etc.) They have no medical insurance
February 06, 2014
Pediatric Dentistry
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experience Senna described. Once he broke his concentration, he crashed into the barriers right before going into the tunnel. Well that explains ur health insurance bonanza Jesus Phil, why do you hate children so much?! WHY? This is why the millennials and fukin zoomers cant get their shit together
March 07, 2023
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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mentioned it? Exactly! If everyone did what we said, wed end up with 10 hygienists and no crown and bridge work. Damn those great teeth people! That's like what Niles (a psychiatrist) said on Fraiser: I love attorneys. They have excellent insurance, and they never get better. Most of my OD
March 26, 2025
Politics
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policies on models unconnected to reality. An insurance company modified a hurricane loss data set by starting from my team's carefully collected data. Many of those modifications have no documentation and no basis in research. The company appended data taken from a different tabulation of losses
April 30, 2026
Politics
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Patient had RCT and buildup a couple weeks ago. Today we prep and she goes to pay and asks if we wait until Jan to submit to insurance so she doesnthave as much out of pocket expense. We have never had problems and always charge out on prep day. Reading some other threads it appears
December 15, 2017
Claims Processing
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A couple of my patients have three dental insurance policies, and my FD is getting confused about how to process the third one. The first one is Guardian - we are out of network. That check came to the office, and the EOB went to the secondary. The second is Delta - we are in network, and the third
April 22, 2016
Claims Processing
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Greetings, Ive called my colleagues this morning and it seems theyre split in half. Some do it over the phone because theyve found online lies sometimes and via phone its more accurate. The others do it online. We currently do it by phone. Doing this, it takes my staff to verify insurance from 8
January 28, 2017
PPOs and HMOs
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Can you write off these as business expenses? I'm filing as a 1099. Far from a tax expert but I think you want to pay with post tax dollars. That way in the unfortunate event of your disability insurance kicking in you won't pay taxes? Malpractice...... Interesting. Anyone know if this is true
June 21, 2018
Taxes
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Mother of teenage son requested we replace tooth 9 as it is an existing PFM with exposed margin. Otherwise tooth is clinically ok. I had explained that this is a cosmetic service and we will not be filing a claim to her insurance which we are in-network with. I found during the prep that the post
February 16, 2017
Claims Processing
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Hello all, I'm interested in purchasing as much disability insurance as possible upon graduating from dental school. Growing up, I witnessed several families struggle because their primary earner went down. The school hasn't been much help in figuring this out. I'm doing a GPR next year that comes
May 17, 2018
Disability Insurance
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Hi fellow colleagues, I just have a question regarding insurance claims and payments. With my lack of understanding, I hope someone can help enlighten me here.. In this case, this is regarding Delta Dental PPO here. I thought the fees are contracted where they would pay in the agreed amount
December 05, 2018
Delta Dental
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Hi DT,Will a prophy (D1110) filed (and paid for by insurance) BEFORE perioscales (D4341) are filed on a patient result in the payment being denied on the perioscales? Technically, a prophy is preventative, and obviously if someone needs perio scaling and root planing, they should not have had
May 21, 2016
Front Office Discussion
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I currently have a $1 million / $3 million malpractice policy. Anyone thought of increasing it to maybe $2 mil / $4 mil I can see lawyers trying to sue anyone they can If this were to last for more than a couple months, it should be a boon to insurance carriers because we arent out there committing malpractice all over the place
March 25, 2020
Malpractice Insurance
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......I just got a quote from my malpractice company for tail insurance. I've been with them ten years, the last four years being on a super part time basis, so that's what they'll be covering. My regular premium has been $1,300 per year, but they want $4,200 to cover me now for the rest of my life
March 14, 2018
Malpractice Insurance
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Taking over a practice in December and would like some opinions on malpractice insurance, as well as property and workers' comp. I'm looking for brokers who can give me a number of options. I've searched extensively and have only come up with Dentist Secure, but have been unable to speak
October 27, 2015
Malpractice Insurance
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We have found that the following insurance companies pay for PPE code D1999: United Concordia ($10) Principal ($7 but only if you are in-network) Delta of NJ ($10?) Delta of CT ($10?) Are there any others to add to this list? Guardian is paying $8 Mark With one of them you have to add a special
September 02, 2020
All Things Coronavirus (Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2)
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My office never has offered health insurance as most employees have their own. My family and I were dropped by Cigna and we've learned it's extremely difficult to get health coverage. Does anyone have any ideas suggestions? BLue cross and Blue shield off individual and family policies I was quoted
September 30, 2020
Medical / Health Insurance
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I received an email from my insurance agent recommending yet another insurance package-- data breach busines insurance? Anyone have any thoughts on if this would be worth it? We're starting to include around $150,000 insurance for our clients who get risk analysis with us, it adds a minimal amount
November 21, 2015
HIPAA
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Hi all,Im looking to send an email that discusses end of year and using benefits.But its sort of a tacky subject and I dont want to sound sales-y.Do any of you do this? Thoughts? Thanks
October 06, 2020
Patient Finance Plans
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I am looking into switching from the ADA-sponsored disability insurance with Great West to another carrier. I am trying to assess the risk associated with staying with Great West given that 1) the policy itself is subject to change over time, and 2) the premiums increase with age. If I buy from
April 14, 2016
Disability Insurance
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Our Sofdentent Reconciliation Report lumps together our EFT Insurance payments (the ones that go directly from ins to your bank) with paper checks that go through our front desk. This makes it very difficult to reconcile the day's collection with the bank statement, as the bank statement lists
May 23, 2017
SoftDent
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Dont have the list for Delta and Metlife I am sure there was a pay hike in recent years Wow
January 12, 2017
PPOs and HMOs
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What should I do? The premiums are killing me. I have a (very) high deductible. Thankfully, I'm healthy. My insurance pays for virtually nothing. I'm going to have to use a LOT of Viagra. The premium for the High Deductible is WAY too high considering they cover nothing. I pay 100% of the staff's
August 03, 2015
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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