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How to Transition a Small Practice to Fee For Service Without Losing Your Mind
How to Transition a Small Practice to Fee For Service Without Losing Your Mind Most dental practices are essentially high-stress charities for multibillion-dollar insurance cartels. You went to school for eight years, took on a mountain of debt, and now you’re letting a cubicle dweller in a different time zone tell you what a crown […]
How to Build a Profitable Fee for Service Dental Office
How to Build a Profitable Fee for Service Dental Office In most practices we see, the owner is essentially a high-paid galley slave. You are rowing the boat as hard as you can, but the insurance companies own the oars, the boat, and the water you’re floating on. You’re working harder, seeing more patients, and […]
How to Create a Luxury Fee For Service Dental Brand
How to Create a Luxury Fee For Service Dental Brand Most dentists play a losing game. They work like galley slaves for insurance overlords, trading their clinical expertise for pennies on the dollar. 💸 Typically, we see doctors seeing 25 patients a day just to keep the lights on. They’re exhausted, their margins are thin, […]
How to Transition a Group Practice to Fee for Service
How to Transition a Group Practice to Fee for Service You’re sitting in your office, staring at a stack of EOBs that look more like an insult than a payment. You just realized that after the PPO write-offs, lab fees, and wage inflation, you actually lost money on that last crown. At this stage, many […]
Master Fee Increases: How to Raise Fees When Going Fee for Service
How to Raise Fees When Going Fee for Service: The Ultimate Guide to Reclaiming Your Practice Sovereignty In most practices we see, the dentist is working like a rented mule, running from op to op, only to realize at the end of the month that the “Evil Empire” (insurance companies) took a 40% haircut off […]
How to Convert a Startup into a Fee for Service Dental Practice and Stop Being an Insurance Janitor
How to Convert a Startup into a Fee for Service Dental Practice and Stop Being an Insurance Janitor Let’s be real: most startups begin their lives as “insurance janitors.” You open your doors, terrified of an empty chair, and sign every PPO contract that crosses your desk. You’re essentially begging for scraps while the insurance […]
How to Drop PPO Insurance and Become Fee for Service Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Practice)
How to Drop PPO Insurance and Become Fee for Service Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Practice) Let’s be honest: your PPO relationship feels a lot like a toxic marriage. They take half your money, tell you what you’re allowed to do, and constantly look for reasons to deny you the support you were promised. […]
How to Build Value in a Fee for Service Dental Practice
How to Build Value in a Fee for Service Dental Practice If you are a practice owner, you likely understand the struggle of feeling like a high-paid laborer rather than a business owner. Many dentists find themselves running between operatories, exhausted by the end of the day, yet seeing a significant portion of their hard-earned […]
How to Communicate Fee Increases in a Fee For Service Practice Successfully
How to Communicate Fee Increases in a Fee For Service Practice Successfully Let’s talk about that pit in your stomach. You know the one—it shows up every time you look at the skyrocketing cost of gloves, masks, and hygienist wages, then look at your stagnant fee schedule. 💸 You’ve realized the math doesn’t work anymore. […]
Unlocking Loyalty: How to Build Patient Loyalty in a Fee for Service Practice
Most dentists think they have a “marketing problem,” yet they often overlook the fundamental strategy of how to build patient loyalty in a fee for service practice. They believe if they just dumped more money into Google Ads or sent out more shiny postcards, their chairs would be full. But that is pure fantasy. Marketing […]
How to Phase Out Insurance and Go Fee for Service Without Killing Your Practice
How to Phase Out Insurance and Go Fee for Service (The Simple Guide) Tired of PPO write-offs? Learn how to phase out insurance and go fee for service while doubling patient loyalty and revenue with a membership plan. 🚀 how-to-phase-out-insurance-and-go-fee-for-service/ How to Phase Out Insurance and Go Fee for Service Without Killing Your Practice Most […]
How to Become a High-End Fee for Service Dentist
How to Become a High-End Fee for Service Dentist Do you want to know how to become a high-end fee for service dentist and escape the restrictive world of PPO reimbursements? Let’s be honest: Most dentists are running a charity masquerading as a business. You went to school for eight years, took on $400k in […]