alternatives to dental insurance

5 Reasons NOT to Increase Your Reliance on Managed Care

With reimbursement rates falling across the board, dealing with insurance companies has become more trouble than they are worth. Going in network isn’t the only way to fill the schedule. In fact there are better options for increasing new patient flow and stimulating practice growth without having to increase reliance on managed care. Here are …

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Providing an Alternative to Dental Insurance

It’s a different world out today for dentists, one that has probably changed since you first started practicing. Dentists are forced to grapple with the often frustrating bureaucracy that comes with dealing with dental insurance companies. Decreasing reimbursements and increasing hassles have come to make accepting dental insurance quite costly – both in time and …

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Providing Quality Dental Care at an Affordable Price

A staggering number of Americans, an estimated 127 million, lack dental insurance. While the recent rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased the availability and affordability of medical coverage, dental benefits continue to be viewed by the public as a luxury, instead of a necessity. According to the American Dental Association, the ACA …

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Alternatives to Dental Insurance: Taking a Proactive Approach for Long-Term Success

Here on the QDP blog, we talk often about how important it is for dentists to have alternatives to dental insurance. It seems there are many more pitfalls of accepting insurance than actual upsides. Never has this rang more true than for our dentist colleagues in Arizona. Last month, dentists there received a letter stating …

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Small Business Outreach: Providing Greater Access to Quality Dental Care

It is often said that the dental industry is recession-proof. However, I believe few of my dentist colleagues would argue that they didn’t feel the effects the “Great Recession”. As we come out of the most recent economic downturn, now is a good time to plan ahead and put processes into place in order to …

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