All Blog Posts Tagged 'insurance' (8)

For years, when talking marketing, this was a common question to ask, “Are you targeting Nordstrom clientele or Wal-mart people?” For dentists and physicians, this question is useless. Worse than useless, in fact, because it puts your focus on the wrong goals.

People follow their insurance. They choose a hospital and physician from the list. They choose…

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Dentists agree – dental insurance is a necessary evil. Necessary to help fill schedules since we’re all trained (thanks to health insurance) that we must follow our insurance plan. Evil because it almost physically hurts to write off 15% - 40% of our fees.

We all know that we’re taking a huge hit thanks to dental insurance, but are we also leaving money on the table that’s our own fault? Depending upon your set up for submitting claims to dental insurance, you could be losing…

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Every year our state dental association hosts a “Day at the Statehouse” where dentists are invited to spend a day learning the top legislative issues in dentistry – and then to share these topics with their state senator and representative. The dental association staff provides written materials to the dentists that clearly explain the 2-3 hot topics for that year. These talking points guide the individual meeting between the dentist and his/her legislators. When a dentist registers for this…

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Do you provide sleep apnea appliances for your patients? This seems to be all the rage in dentistry these days. I see articles everywhere talking about how 50% of CPAP owners are not actually wearing their CPAP machine at night – and how this group  is a perfect target for a dental appliance. Henry Schein offers courses and several different labs that will make an oral appliance for sleep apnea – just ask your Schein rep and you’ll discover a mountain of information…

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Would you like to know how much other dentists in your area are charging for a crown? For an extraction? For a cleaning?

 

You can find out for free on the new…

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Would you like to have more control over the dental insurance plans you accept in your practice?

 

Do you know which dental plans are performing well for you - and which ones you're losing money on?

 

I have developed a system to monitor and track the performance of each dental insurance plan so you can make intelligent decisions about dental insurance. I can set up your Dentrix dental practice management software so that it will track the collections, withholds…

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Managed Care Plans-To Join or Not to Join

By Kathleen O'Donnell, VP of Coaching



We are enmeshed in an economic slowdown the likes of which has not been experienced for decades. Some struggling practices are tempted to sign up with insurance plans and may not go about it in an effective way. There can be some valid reasons to evaluate the pros and cons of becoming a participating provider. Like a start-up dental practice, sometimes having managed care patients in the chairs can… Continue

Now you shouldn't have to worry about taking that trip abroad (you name the international destination of your choice) in order to save money on those dental and/or medical surgeries that we think are so expensive in this country but cost less elsewhere. According to a Nov. 11 Marketwire news release, Seven Corners has launched the first worldwide medical tourism insurance program. Underwritten by Lloyd's of London (you probably have heard of this company before), the program aims to reduce… Continue