When a dental patient cancels their appointment, it’s easy to say, “no big deal, life happens.” And that’s true, you can’t force someone to make it to their dental appointment. However, when a patient doesn’t come in for their appointment, it results in a loss of revenue, especially if cancellations are common at your practice.
You know it’s important to have a streamlined dental billing process, but how do you build one? There are a lot of moving parts in the dental billing process. It’s important to have the right strategy in place to help it run smoothly so that you can collect on every procedure performed while keeping overhead costs low.
Navigating Medicare feels like being lost in a maze without a clue where to take the first step, we get it. Unfortunately, too many dentists have no idea that ignoring Medicare rules can really hurt them. Are you wondering what Medicare coverage has to do with your dental practice? Well, it’s more than you know.
When it comes to running a business, there has to be a clear system to account for income properly, and it’s no different for dental practices. If you want to impact practice success, you’ll need to track incoming revenue. That’s why running the daily deposit report is important to help you make sure your revenue is well managed.
When a dentist chooses to outsource their insurance billing, the dental team might feel a little uneasy about the change that’s coming. It’s fair - outsourcing dental insurance billing is not the easiest transition for every dental practice. And there are certainly challenges that come with adding a remote dental billing specialist, especially when you’re not sure what changes are coming.
Collecting payment from your dental patients is vital to your dental practice. But talking with patients about their payments can be a sticky situation, especially if their insurance benefits are complicated. Whether or not the patient is covered by insurance, you need to clearly communicate what their estimated out-of-pocket costs are.
If you’re like me, when dental patients mention Medicare, your head spins a bit. Most people would rather ignore Medicare than deal with it! But if your practice has Medicare Advantage patients or anyone over 65, you need to know about Medicare.
When you’re giving dental patients an estimate of their out-of-pocket costs, it’s important to be accurate. This means you understand their full breakdown including deductibles, downgrades, and overall: insurance verification.
As we all know, the dental billing process is complicated. If your process includes outdated dental insurance billing practices or preparing claims without proper training, you risk using illegal dental billing practices without even knowing it. Insurance companies thrive on the incidence of dental billing errors.
When introducing your team to a dental billing company, or even bringing up the idea of hiring one, your employees will naturally have a lot of questions like: Do we report to the remote team? Are we losing our jobs? How will this work?
