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Tag Archives: dental insurance
Don’t Just Answer the Question.
We all get phone calls and emails from prospective patients looking for a new dentist. Very often the only question these prospects ask is, “How much is ________ (a cleaning, a crown, an extraction, etc.).” Another common question is, “Do … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Practice Management
Tagged dental insurance, dental plans, QDP, Quality Dental Plan
6 Comments
Insurance Salesman: “Dental Plans Are Crap”
I wish I could have recorded the conversation I had with a patient’s husband yesterday. Sometimes they leave. Sometimes they come back. This was a new patient… sort of. She first came to me about 3 years ago. We did … Continue reading
Posted in Practice Management, What Happened Today
Tagged dental insurance, QDP, Quality Dental Plan
3 Comments
Roll the Bones – Tell Insurance Companies to FOAD
The following is from a thread on Dentaltown. It has been suggested that dentists should file a class action lawsuit against dental insurance companies for “coercing them into accepting low fees or reimbursement.” In the thread, several dentists share their … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged dental insurance, HMO, insurance, managed care, PPO, private care
7 Comments
Aetna VP / CFO Schools Us on TheDentalWarrior.com!
This is just too good and must be shared! On another blog article I wrote about Groupon, a gentleman named John Bermel chimed in with some comments regarding his beliefs about “what’s wrong with dentistry” today. At first, I mistakenly … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Editorial
Tagged Aetna dental insurace, dental insurance, insurance CFO
2 Comments
Do you REALLY want to do business with Delta???
I understand I may draw the ire of dentists who participate with Delta and other managed care plans, as I perpetually express my bafflement (yes it’s a word) at how any dentist would willingly sign a contract with the devil … Continue reading
Dental insurance is like getting a gift card from a control freak!
My friend, Dr. Alan Mead, a dentist in Saginaw, Michigan recently blogged about dental “insurance.” I put “insurance” in quotes because there is no such thing as dental insurance. Rather, it is a pre-paid dental benefit plan. And, that’s what … Continue reading
Another Delta Dental State Bites the Dust!
Last April I ranted… I mean blogged… about the 15% cut in fees by the state of Washington’s Delta Dental plan. In it I said Washington was the beach head of this war. I predicted that other states would follow … Continue reading