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Business - Medical and Dental Industry
Preventing Medical Identity Theft
Regardless the size of the practice, medical identity theft is a real threat and should be taken seriously by providers and healthcare organizations alike.
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The Importance of Marketing Your Orthodontic Practice
Because orthodontics is a specialty field with dentistry, it doesn't typically involve the large number of patients experienced by most general dentistry offices. This makes marketing all the more crucial for a successful orthodontic practice.
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The Importance of Online Marketing for Private Practice
Technical innovation has significantly changed the way healthcare has evolved over the past decade. From EHR’s to telemedicine, it is nearly impossible to ignore the significance technology has had in medicine and its impact on patient care.
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What to Do When There's a Disagreement on a Treatment Plan
With multiple dentists working in the same office, it can be common to have a disagreement on a patient’s treatment plan. Working together for the better of the patient should be the most important focus.
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What's the Policy for That?
When you’re working in a multi-doctor office (or even in a practice with multiple other providers, such as hygienists,) it’s necessary to have set policies on how patient accounts and treatments are handled.
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Why an Effective Compliance Plan is Necessary
By implementing an effective compliance program, a practice can find and reduce billing errors, decrease the potential of an audit, improve payments, reduce potential fraud and abuse, and deliver high-quality care.
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Sharing and Separation of Staff
With two or three dentists in a single office, it can sometimes be confusing when it comes to who-helps-who. When you get your staff 100% committed to a specific routine each day, it can make it easier on both the dentist and the rest of the team to run on schedule and keep production up.
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Should Dentists Perform Work Outside of Their Practice?
There are a number of reasons that a dentist may choose to work outside of their original practice, including increasing their weekly production. Some even have a weekly or monthly routine of traveling to work out of a local private practice.
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Should Oral Surgeons Perform Work Outside of their Practice?
Many oral surgeons struggle to grow your practice or are simply out of space to add additional operatory days, performing out-of-office treatment in a private provider’s office is an excellent next step to take toward increasing your weekly production.
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