So you have experienced outsourcing insurance billing and with everything now cleaned up, you’ve decided to do this in-house going forward. Maybe you simply prefer to switch back to in-house billing for other reasons that matter to you. Either way, you’re going to need a success plan to maintain cost-effective insurance billing.
Though your dental practice is a healthcare provider, it is still a place of business. You may be wondering, how can my front desk team help bring in more money? You still have to meet a certain revenue number (depending on your size) to pay for equipment, staff, utilities, and everything else that comes with running a dental practice.
Do you know how common embezzlement is at dental practices? The rhyme or reason why this happens is unknown, but it’s something that dental teams need to be aware of. It’s a hard topic to talk about but you won’t be able to prevent it if you don’t understand how it can happen.
Besides great dental care, what do dental patients want? If you’re at the front desk, most patients will ask you: “What will my dental procedures cost?” That’s why dental teams will oftentimes use predeterminations to inform a patient ahead of time what their procedure is going to cost them.
Dental Claim Support ranks #32 on the 2022 annual list presented by the University of Georgia
When you send a dental claim off to the insurance company, you send it with confidence that it will pay, not be denied. So, when it is denied, you can’t help but feel frustrated and wonder, “What went wrong with that insurance claim?” A great first step is to check what attachments are needed for dental claims.
As a dentist, you’ve been outsourcing your insurance billing. Working with a dental billing company has proved to raise your collection rate and be worth your time and money, but you can’t help but wonder: how long am I supposed to work with this billing company?
Accepting primary AND secondary dental insurance at your practice can feel daunting to some dental teams. We get it, dealing with Coordination of Benefits rules is a huge task. When you accept multiple insurance plans, it means you also need to navigate rules from each plan, and correctly bill the patient. Yes, you’ll need to file the insurance claims in a specific order.
Like most workplaces, the relationships between team members of a dental office play a huge role in how the office operates. Specifically, the office manager’s relationship with everyone can make a huge impact on how the dental practice is run. They oversee every aspect of operations, and how tasks are executed.
