Practice Management | Managed Care

Dropping PPOs? How To Communicate To Keep Your Patients

Thinking of dropping PPOs? Learn how positive communication can help you keep your patients while transitioning away from insurance plans.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Boost 2024 Profits by Reducing Your PPO Write-Offs

Deciding to stop participating in PPOs is the easy part. Read on to uncover the proper steps to reducing your adjustments, while maintaining your hard-earned revenue.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Top Errors In Dealing With PPOs

Avoid these 6 profit-robbing mistakes doctors routinely make to maintain your practice's profitability.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Stakes Rising In PPO “Poker” So Act Now!

Managed care providers (PPOs) are decreasing their reimbursements, dramatically increasing your potential adjustments. Here’s how to handle the “negotiation game” and come out on top.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Three Critical Steps To Successfully Reduce PPO Participation

Tales of doctors dropping PPOs to increase their profitability are becoming far more commonplace. How do they do it? The simplicity of the answer might shock you.

Practice Management | Managed Care

What Does The Partial Antitrust Exemption Repeal For Dental Insurers Mean For Your Practice?

The Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act is designed to hold dental insurance companies accountable for anti-competitive behavior. What will the FTC and DOJ be looking for and how might this ultimately help your reimbursement rates?

Practice Management | Managed Care

How To Optimize Your PPO Reimbursements

Insurance companies have conspired to keep your reimbursements as low as possible through leasing networks. Here’s how to fight back and who to turn to for help.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Survey Reveals More Doctors Reducing PPO Participation

Reducing your PPO participation is one of the fastest ways to substantially increase your practice profitability. But what’s the best way to drop a plan while maintaining production?

Practice Management | Managed Care

Time To Review Your PPO Strategy

Most doctors agree with the adage, “work smarter, not harder,” yet fail to embrace this concept when it comes to managed care. Running a more profitable practice requires you to be smarter about PPO participation; here’s how.

Practice Management | Managed Care

More Practices Reduce PPO Participation: Hike Your Profits By Following Suit

Think you can’t afford to go out of network with PPOs? Four months after making changes to reduce PPO participation, one of our members saw profits go up about $12,000 a month. So think again!

Practice Management | Managed Care

How To Increase Profits By Playing It Smart With Delta

Delta Dental has the largest dental network by far, so your practice’s status with them is critical. Find out how you can potentially add thousands in increased profits by making the right provider moves.

Practice Management | Managed Care

3 Steps To Increase Profits By Reducing PPO Participation

Most practices CAN reduce PPO participation. So most likely, YOU CAN too! Learn more about one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways to add 4-10 percentage points to your profit margin.

Practice Management | Managed Care

4 Steps To Make Profitable PPO Changes For Your Practice

This practice is living proof that you can drop a PPO and see your practice flourish!

Practice Management | Managed Care

How You Can Make Practice PPO Decisions Profitably

We show you how NOT to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost profits from one poor decision.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Boost Profits By Managing Your PPO Participation

Practice management expert Bill Rossi on how to successfully peel back managed care participation–while keeping the majority of your PPO patients–to become more profitable.

Practice Management | Managed Care

5 More Ways To Boost Profits While Dropping Managed Care (PPO) Plans

The two most underused words in dentistry are “I RECOMMEND.” Use them!

Practice Management | Managed Care

Managed Care Update

Is your practice overhead problem actually a write-off (PPO) problem? Here's how to know and what to do about it!

Practice Management | Managed Care

Tips For Successfully Negotiating With Managed Care Plans

When most doctors negotiate, they win the battle, but lose the war. Here's how to make sure you are victorious in both.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Readers’ Survey Shows Rapid Growth In Managed Care Participation

The results are in! We discuss the current trends in managed care participation based on responses from our readers. How does your practice compare?

Practice Management | Managed Care

The Future of Dentistry (Part 2) – How Will Changes In Insurance And Managed Care Affect Your Practice?

John McGill and Dr. Charles Blair continue their outlook on industry trends highlighting the explosive growth of PPOs and the impact of managed care penetration.

Practice Management | Managed Care

How To Survive The Growing Penetration Of Managed Care In Dentistry

Are you spending $100,000 or more in “marketing expenses”? Review your managed care write-offs now and consider these better ways to increase profitability.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Managed Care Participation Increasing - - What Does the Future Hold?

There is not a “one size fits all” managed care strategy. Thoroughly review your practice to develop the strategy that works best for you.

Practice Management | Managed Care

The Proper Role of Insurance in Your Practice

Will increasing participation in managed care plans improve practice profitability?

Practice Management | Managed Care

Ten Strategies to Increase Profits While Reducing Managed Care Participation

As managed care penetration grows, doctors must carefully evaluate its impact on profitability and make needed changes.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Beware the Growing Allure of Managed Care

The road to financial security and high quality treatment is not paved by buying into managed care.

Practice Management | Managed Care

Managed Care Fee Discounts Increasing

If you are a doctor participating in managed care plans, you can’t afford to have your head in the sand.