Category: Dental
Is your practice meeting your patients’ digital expectations?
We don’t always think of patients as consumers. But it’s important to consider how your patients’ experiences as a customer influences their expectations when they contact providers. One of these experiences you might want to strongly consider is digitizing appointments. Aligning with patient expectations Consider what’s happened over the last decade. Buying and banking habits
Is it time for a deeper look at billing codes?
Proper billing and understanding of billing codes are key to keeping your practice afloat. All it takes is one wrong digit in a patient’s Social Security number for the insurance company to deny the claim, which only delays revenue to you. While accuracy is important, the concept goes well beyond a reduction in data entry
Make upfront payments the rule at your dental practice
The appointment is set, but rest assured, there is plenty for your patient to dread. There’s all that drilling and scraping, plus the potential unwelcome news that they will need to return for a root canal. Of course, then there’s the matter of paying for all this discomfort. On the flip side, asking someone for
2 Tips for Reducing No-Shows and Broken Appointments
There are few things more frustrating to a dentist than patient no-shows. Broken appointments are both costly to your practice and can throw a wrench in your daily schedule. When patients miss appointments, not only do you and your staff waste a valuable block in your schedule, but you miss out on revenue that otherwise would
The Emergency Room’s Latest Visitors: Dental Patients
The emergency room and the dentist office. It used to be a case of “never the two shall meet,” and customers needing the one had no reason to visit the other. These days, that’s no longer the case. A growing number of emergency rooms across the nation are taking and treating patients with dental problems. In
Dentists: Ignorance is Not Bliss
If you’ve ever shared a toothbrush with a spouse, a partner or a child, here’s some information that might give you pause, and below we’ll create an association between your toothbrush and your collection agency. Research appearing on MedicalNewsToday.com found more than 60 percent of shared toothbrushes contained traces of fecal matter (yuck!). As unsettling
Improve dental collections with this measuring tool
When a patient leaves your dental practice without paying, the account has already begun to drop in value. Later, your staff will have the task of preparing and mailing a bill. What’s more concerning is that, if the patient doesn’t pay their first bill, the chance of recovering the debt diminishes each month the account is past due.
Boost Dental Revenues by Examining Your Revenue Cycle
Bringing in new patients is one way to boost dental revenues at your practice, but sometimes, simply paying closer attention to your various points in the revenue cycle can increase your monthly collections. You can boost the bottom line by fine-tuning these processes. Market to uninsured patients: Not everyone carries dental insurance, and not having this coverage is
