In every industry, efficiency matters. When processes take too long or tie up your schedule, it can be hard to decrease your expenses and raise your revenue. Dental practices often have bottlenecks that prevent them from making as much as they could. How can you...
Revenue cycle management also referred to as RCM, is one of the most critical things that dental practices and other healthcare organizations need to master to survive. Your practice’s RCM includes a broad variety of things that help to improve or harm your dental...
Many employers offer their employees dental care benefits as part of their broader benefits package. Whether you are contracted or non-contracted, you will need to handle third-party claims. When working with employee benefit plans, it’s important to make sure that...
Most dental practices work with preferred provider organizations or PPOs to provide care to their patients. While PPOs do cover a sizeable number of patients in communities across the country, some dentists explore moving to a third-party network to access even more...
As a dentist, you need to maintain an active policy for your professional liability insurance, which is also known as malpractice insurance. While there are many conflicting opinions on what type of policy is best or how much protection you need, there are some basics...
All healthcare industry businesses are subject to more cyber-attacks every year. They can take a variety of forms, from malware that might capture sensitive credentials from your staff members to ransomware that locks up your computers unless you pay the ransom that...
Dental service organizations (DSOs) are growing every year, and they show plenty of promise for dentists looking for a streamlined experience that allows them to focus on treating patients without the administrative aspects of traditional practice management. What are...
All dentists need to go through the credentialing process so that they can be counted as in-network providers with insurance companies. Unfortunately, that is just the beginning of your relationship! Recredentialing is a process that takes place every two or three...
At APEX Reimbursement Specialists, we work with dentists throughout the United States. However, our work with Ohio dentists has been particularly profound in its scope and efficacy. In this blog, we will be walking you through some of the ways that we have improved...
As a dental practice, ensuring timely payment for the procedures that you perform is essential to staying in business and growing your patient base. When you are forced to resubmit claims multiple times and waste time on the phone with insurance companies, it takes...
