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dentist moved in that takes all insurances/medicaid, everything. I noticed a decrease because of this some, but mainly I feel like my practice is no longer growing. We file insurance for the pts. However we are not in network. Im am debating contracting with some of the bigger insurance companys
May 22, 2019
PPOs and HMOs
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maximum... Not hers. The insurance company says that we illegally filed the claim and it is our problem to sort out. They are not going to do anything to fix it. We check our system and it was filed under the wife's name as it was supposed to be. We even called Open Dental to make sure their were
October 01, 2015
Front Office Discussion
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BCBS, Minnesota Dental Association, and ADA this morning. The new health insurance requirements need to be changed on a federal level for dentist to opt out of buying dental insurance for their kids but who knows how long this will take? I could purchase a plan without pediatric dental ins. coverage
February 27, 2014
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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How difficult is it to find an honest, competent, reliable person to file insurance, collect copays, enter patient insurance information, enter insurance checks, answer phones, enter treatment completed, schedule patients, run day sheets, present treatment plans? If you find a person claiming
January 05, 2017
Claims Processing
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The Reason Your Dental Work Isn't Covered by Medical Insurance
October 28, 2017
Medical / Health Insurance
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Has taking post op PAs of crowns, cores, post&cores become standard of care??? Some insurance companies have started to reject paying for the Post Op x-ray that THEY REQUIRE...AND have stated that it is part of the integral process. Has anyone else dealt with this? How can
July 14, 2014
Claims Processing
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Here is a cautionary tale on what can happen in an insurance company 401k plan. I encourage you to read this email sequence from the bottom and pass it along to anyone you know that has, or is thinking about setting up a 401k plan with a insurance company that has to pay for their stadiums, golf
April 17, 2018
Personal Finance
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I've been reading threads about insurance and everyone says financial situation is important, so heres tons of details: I'm 35yo with 28yo wife. We have a 2 year old daughter and a son due in the next week. I currently have about 400k in student loan debt, no credit card debt, 2 car loans
October 15, 2019
Personal Finance
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One of the biggest things that we see is people treating for sleep apnea without the proper diagnosis. That will not only get the dentist in a lot of trouble, not just with the insurance company, but their licenses could also be on the line. Jan Palmer is with us today to talk about proper Jan has
April 10, 2020
by Chuck Blakeman
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Are there any companies out there that I can outsource to to do my insurance verification? I did a search on DT and I heard all about breakaway, etc. but I just want to see what else is out there? Thanks! Outsource options: (eAssist) insurance billing, AR management (phone coverage, filling
September 14, 2017
Claims Processing
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I'm looking for a referral to discuss some billing questions and concerns. TIA- Alan G. McDavid, DDS Bump for the morning crowd Thomas Force. I think he is in New York.
October 14, 2015
Medical / Health Insurance
Podcast
In this Dentistry Rising Podcast Episode, California Dental Attorney Amy Borden, Esq. talks me about new contract clauses she is writing and seeing in transition contracts, and what you might want to consider doing if your business insurance is not paying. Amy Borden, Esq. WHAT
April 20, 2020
by betterobin
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then but same high level of coverage). She received the same exact care and treatment as the Medicaid babies in the neighboring plastic houses in the NICU. I can only assume our insurances subsidized the payments Medicaid made for all of our roommates across 5 hospitals. However, when I lived in Tennessee
October 13, 2017
Politics - DO NOT Enter if easily offended
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of malpractice insurance – Submit the page of the policy that outlines the length of time and amount of coverage you have. DEA certificate – This is received from the federal government to prescribe medication. It’s important to password protect this document. Certificate
March 19, 2017
by Sheri Jolly
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Should the office pay the Business Reducing Term Insurance premium that covers the business loan in the case of disability? Currently it's drawn on private funds and I would like the PC with S corp designation to pay whatever it should pay. my understanding is Yes. I have a disability (overhead
April 25, 2016
Taxes
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appreciated. The 100K was a good starter policy but whole life is generally not a good deal. If you need more insurance anyway, cancel the policy and get a good term policy. Your age will determine what type of term policy to get, ie, 20 year level, 10 year level term,etc. Just remember what life
March 07, 2014
Life Insurance
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April 05, 2017
Claims Processing
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they can have medical insurance pick up 90% ofa single implant to a full mouth of All On's, We canhelp patients who may be looking athavingan implant placed, wecan also helptheir spouse with sleep apnea, wecan help withbone graphs,impactedthird molars, medical necessary orthodontia, implants
May 05, 2017
Implantology
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If you accept insurance assignment of benefits, how long do you wait for payment before turning balance over to patient? I can select a time period in my software to do this. Insurance companies are really dragging processing out and say they did not receive claims or need more info, etc
July 15, 2014
Claims Processing
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Forgive me if this has been discussed before but I cannot make any sense of the current dental insurance situation. It seems like there would be less overhead for insurance companies if they simply listed theprocedures andthe amount of money they will pay forthese procedures. There would be less
April 27, 2015
Dental Insurance for Dentists
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My insurance agent has been pushing whole life insurance. I'm 33, single, no kids and have a term life insurance for $200K. I do plan to have a family in future and my agent has been pushing whole life insurance with $250K incremental increase option up to $1.25 m. At this point in my life I
February 19, 2013
Life Insurance
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I am new to front desk and have opened my first practice recently and need to learn about EOB, Pre determination, anything insurance related. I am going in network with some insurances Delta Dental of WA, Dental Health Alliance. The others I will be out of network with since the fee schedules
June 18, 2020
Front Office Discussion
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I am under the impression that in order to get a fee schedule from insurance companies I must fill out a complete application with the company in order to obtain it. I am concerned that if I am unhappy with the fee's that I will be locked into the fee schedule for a specified amount of time
February 25, 2016
Claims Processing
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My financial coordinator has brought it to my attention that whenever we are taking Pano, BWX on new patients, the insurance companies are downgrading reimbursement to FMX, resulting in pretty big write-off. Anyone else experiencing this or have any ideas on how to handle this? It's been this way
July 09, 2019
Pediatric Dentistry
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Hi guys and gals, I dropped my disability insurance a while back, and now looking into buying it again. I am 47 year old male, healthy, no smoking. I am doing a comparison between ADA Great West Fianancial Disablility Insurance vs Northwestern Mutual. Both offer: Own occupational disability
October 08, 2020
Disability Insurance
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providers from 43% last year to 46% this year. Premier PPOs (a collection of over 25 various dental insurances) has 42% participation of the providers reporting. 11% of Dentists said they dropped a PPO in the past year and 7% are planning to leave one this year. 9% have joined a PPO. If you
January 27, 2016
by Bill Rossi
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My workers compensation insurance - Hartford - is telling me I am required by Colorado to cover my spouse and 4 children who work in my office doing mostly janitorial, lawn, office functions, and are on the payrol, in my workers compensation insurance. As part of the annual audit Hartford wants
January 17, 2019
Personal Finance
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TOOTH 13 I JUST DID THIS root canal on no 13 The 2 canals merge at 1/2 or 2/3 of the root. thanks I don't bill by the number of canals. I bill according to anterior, bicuspid or molar. For that tooth I would use 3320.Yes as the code is for a bicuspid, not X canaled...I think in Canada...
October 29, 2018
Endodontics -- The ENDO Files
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Mark Steve: Are you still using this service?Mark...
February 17, 2017
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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I'll be finishing residency soon and am discussing the contract to be an associate of a (not corporate) private practice. Is health insurance for the employee dentist and his/herdependents normally part of this contract? Quite often the cost to provide medical insurance for a small private practice
February 10, 2019
Medical / Health Insurance
Blog
covers all our needs and, above all, those of our family members in the event that if something bad happens to us. Hiring life insurance As a general rule, people who are between 30 and 40 years old are the ones who prefer to contract a policy of this type. However, you may also need a life insurance
August 14, 2019
by jasonsteel
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So you are stating that Outpatient Services includes restorative, oral surgery, endodontics periodontics, prosthetics and perio services? That was the intention of the law? And that medical insurance companies will have to abide by this as they couldn't plug the leak as you put it? Here is my
January 06, 2014
Medical / Health Insurance
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now. How about if we, as dentists, start our own insurance company, and cut out the middle man? There is a group in Utah, www.dentalcooperative.com that I've met in the past. I know they were expanding into other states as of a couple years ago. Not sure if anyone has experience with them?I think
June 19, 2016
Delta Dental
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120k to 150k. I also have disability and business insurance with them, but they don't give a bundle discount unlike other insurance companies. Looking at others for quotes. Your $16,000 quote with 16 employees, sounds high, but then again all depends on your payroll. OOF.I pay $1200 a year. 16k?!! wowjust paid $2100 with Hartford. 9 team members...
January 12, 2017
Pediatric Dentistry
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then submitted for pre-auth for the crown on 29 which was approved. The claim however on #29 BU was denied. I do have the same and license of the dentist that reviewed this case and denied it. If I were to complain to the state insurance commissioner which state commissioner would I complain
June 29, 2016
Claims Processing
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Upon investigating a delay in my patient's claim reimbursement, we came to know that the insurance check had been deposited by another dental office several blocks away from us. We gave the office a call and informed them of the situation. They claimed to have no knowledge of this and could
December 02, 2014
Claims Processing
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I have many patients who do not have dental insurance but desperately need teeth extracted. These patients are in pain and only want extractions. They thought that they were going to be covered when they bought into the Affordable Care Act only to find out many plans do not cover dental. I
May 08, 2014
Patient Finance Plans
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Our last post discussed some of the ways the insurance company will attempt to gather your personal information once you have submitted your disability claim. In this post, we will discuss some of the other methods insurance companies use to evaluate your disability claim. THE INVESTIGATION
October 16, 2015
by Karla Thompson
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and already knew they'll be paying full fee? What do you instruct your team to say to attempt to get patients with dental insurancesto staywhen those patients ask do you take my insurance? Does your FFS office currently help submitdental insurances claims forthose patients with insurances so they can
February 06, 2018
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
Podcast
of individuals. She believes the investment in marketing when done right is an investment, not an expense. Jordan and Dr Anissa discuss how effective marketing can be used as a tool to reduce dependence on dental insurance. She believes that while marketing is a great way to increase patient flow as an out
May 01, 2019
by Jordon Comstock
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We need a new mindset in my office regarding insurance and I'm not sure on how to go about implementing change. Here is the story... General dentistry office, we've had great numbers in the past average gross is about 1.1M per year. Low turnover with staff, last new member came in 4 years ago. We
July 12, 2013
Ask a Dental Consultant
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, via an internal report. In Open Dental this is called Procedures Not Billed Report. In Dentrix it's called Procedures Not Attached to Insurance Claims Report. I have looked all over, but have not been able to locate such a report for Eagle Soft. This seems like something that should be standard as other major Practice Management Programs have this. Please let me know if you have any info.
January 28, 2019
EagleSoft
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HOUSE BILL No. 1063 _____ DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL Citations Affected: IC 27-8-11-4.7; IC 27-13-34-15.2. Synopsis: Dental and optometry service coverage. Prohibits dental and vision insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists and optometrists to accept certain payments...
June 28, 2017
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
Blog
Six months out of dental school, I discovered that at least 8 out of 10 patients had the same six objections on going ahead with their treatment plans: I'm only doing what the dental insurance covers. I have no money. File a predetermination of benefits for me. I need to talk to my spouse. I
November 27, 2019
by MGE
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in my practice. As in, for every 300k we collect, 200k is from insurance, and 100k is from ffs patients or the patient portion of insurance. We collect on average 88% of total unadjusted production. We collect on average 98% of adjusted production. Are we in line with the industry or can we
April 30, 2019
PPOs and HMOs
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I graduated 2 yrs ago, and have been clueless when it comes to insurance claiming. I recently started to pay more attention because it's directly related to money and business aspect of dentistry. I remember when my boss told me to take x-rays even though pts are not due for annual BW. Now I think
December 12, 2016
Claims Processing
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I have a Dentist who comes to my office to do exclusively Molar endo on my patients once a month three to five hours. The Dentist has his own malpractice insurance, and he has his own full time dental office. The Insurance claims and how they are filed is my big concern here. The Front desk has
March 03, 2014
Claims Processing
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So I had a patient who came to us 18 months ago. We checked their insurance did a fax back. It says crowns covered at 100%. When we completed and billed, they responded back and saying it is only covered at 50%. We have a fax back showing 100% but they won't honor it. I want to fight it but just
July 28, 2016
Ask a Dental Consultant
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nearly ripped it up thinking it was junk mail advertising for health insurance...Unfortunately, she's right. Write void across the check and send it back with a narrative explaining which patient was incorrectly added. I would even highlight the name on the EOB as an additional reminder so that when
May 12, 2016
Claims Processing
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I bought an office~1mill production in september. I hired a company recommended by CW to help with the insurance. We had trouble with the transition due to covid so I was unable to line up the insurance transition before purchase. I hired a company to do the insurance credentialing for us and my
May 04, 2021
Claims Processing
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