When it comes to practice management, the administrative and bureaucratic needs are not where your team wants to get bogged down. Unfortunately, lawmakers don’t spend much time at the small medical and dental practices that struggle to keep up with evolving regulations and mandatory programs. Similarly, your dental practice doesn’t want to spend its time poring over legal changes, but keeping up with EPCS and ePrescribing mandates is essential, even more so for dental service organizations (DSOs). Thankfully, there are tools on the market designed to help you meet those mandates all while improving your practice’s productivity and efficiency and ...
Making decisions that directly impact your business profitability can seem like a daunting task. With regular increased overhead costs and the worry of inflation, now is the time to plan for the coming year. To help you get started, ask these 5 questions to find PPO and revenue enhancement solutions: Question # 1: What are my major revenue problems? You agreed to discounted/poor PPO reimbursement levels when you signed up with PPOs Your PPO fee schedules rarely increase and more often stay the same or decrease Your patient volume is increasing, however, lack the proper strategy to know which PPOs to ...
By Kandis Garland, RDH MS | Day to day operations in a dental practice run by certain routines or systems. There are particular processes that must happen for a practice to run smoothly. This article will provide clinicians with helpful suggestions for an efficient and consistent process, or flow, with the instrument processing cycle. Sometimes the clinical day is not as smooth as it could be. Breakdowns can slow down or impeded the process. Several things can impede the instrument processing flow such as clutter. Instrument processing space & treatment room Cluttered spaces require more time for cleaning and disinfection, ...
By Michelle Strange, MSDH, RDH | Having many patients visit your office means business is doing well. While this is great for cash flow, you are likely experiencing work overload with insufficient time to properly wash, disinfect and sterilize all your instruments. Without adequate equipment and instruments in place, heavy traffic can result in an increased risk of infection and safety issues such as overloading the autoclave, in addition to office frustration and backlog of patients. Typically, dental clinics do not have enough instruments to get through an entire day of seeing patients. Which means on busy days, the clinical ...
