When dentists decide to fix revenue problems, they often get to a point where they are trying to choose between hiring an experienced in-house dental biller or an outsourced dental billing company. It’s hard to determine which is the better fit for your dental practice if you’re in this position.

Working the insurance aging report is an important and time-consuming responsibility in dental billing. How does an insurance aging report work? Many billers struggle with knowing when to work the aging report, and how to fix problems with dental claims. It’s important to get this right because your income depends on it.

It’s no secret that the front office team of any dental practice is running the show that makes a dental practice profitable. They handle the volume of patients that come in, make sure schedules are organized and in place, and check that each patient’s insurance benefits are up to date and active. The dentist can’t perform services and get paid easily if these tasks aren’t completed.

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.

Here it is, already September, can you believe it?? This year seems to have flown by so quickly and it’s now football season, my favorite time of year (Go Dawgs!). However, this time can be stressful for your dental practice and in particular the person sending out patient statements and getting denials due to frequency. As you know, most (not all but most) insurance plans start on January 1 of each year. These dental plans are now starting to deny certain procedure codes due to frequency and here’s why; Most dental plans only allow 2 exams per year.

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