You want to make the dental office more efficient, but you’re not sure where to start. If you’re in any leadership role, there are specific areas you can check to improve your dental business.

When you start receiving dental RCM (revenue cycle management) services, the expectation is that your dental practice is going to transform. You’re expecting a cleaned up dental insurance aging report, higher collections, and a less stressed out in-house team.

When you think of dental practice management systems, your brain probably goes straight to your practice management software. You’re a dental professional – your software is what holds, organizes and reports most everything!

You’ve just signed up to work with DCS to collect more with revenue cycle management services. What now?

Did you know that many practices collect less money than they could, because their fee schedules are out of date? The payer will happily pay less than the amount you’re entitled to if that’s what you’ve requested on your claims.

As a dentist, you went to dental school to learn the clinical skills needed to care for your patient’s oral health, not run a business.

Do you ever look back to 10 years ago and feel shocked by the technology we have today?

It happens: You’re going out of town, or you’re understaffed and need a “substitute” dentist to keep your practice going — aka, a locum tenens dentist. That’s simple enough in theory, but there are so many questions: Do you really need one? Where do you find one? And where do you put a locum tenens dentist on the dental insurance claim? We answer these top questions and more to help you get reimbursed faster.

Each time I visited my dentist in the past year or so, the same concern arose: “What can I do about my dental practice's staffing shortage? ”

The dental revenue cycle is a wheel that has to keep turning to make your dental practice profitable. But keeping this wheel turning is no easy feat.