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📈 You don’t fix years of rising costs overnight.
August 24, 2026 · BoomCloud™
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📈 You don’t fix years of rising costs overnight.
In this episode of Navigating Dental Insurance, I sat down with Steve Parker of Prophet Dentist Magazine to talk about strategically reducing reliance on insurance.
The goal isn’t to drop every PPO tomorrow.
It’s to build an 18–24 month strategy that gives your practice more control over your fees, costs, and profitability.
You don’t need an overnight transformation. You need a plan and a direction.
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It took 5 years to get to 1.4% top line growth and a 4.9% cost and expenses growth. You don't get out of that, you know, in a quarter. You don't get out out of that by, you know, finishing watching this podcast and clicking a button and signing up for something you're done. But if you say, "Hey, over the next 18 months or 2 years, I want to do this. I want to be X% insurance reimbursement. I want to be X% fee for service where I get
to set the fees. I get to decide. I don't have any pre-Ds anymore. I decide. And if I got a hole in the schedule and there's a crown, we just do the crown now. If the pain's If the patient's on a membership plan, you can do it right now. You done. That's a lot of power in the hands of somebody who's saying, "All right, I need better than that revenue and cost-wise, I need to trim my cost." You just did both and you have a ton
of control.
