myRA Retirement Accounts Are Now Available Nationwide
This is a U.S. Treasury Department program aimed at low to middle income individuals as a starter account to encourage those that do not have access to employer-sponsored plans to become savers.… Continue On +
Dental Practice Growth Often Hinges on Hygiene
If you consistently attract strong numbers of new patients yet your hygiene schedule is not as busy as you would like, it’s time to look closely at the potential reasons. Dental practice… Continue On +
Medical Coding on Dental Claims
As of October 1, 2015, medical diagnostic codes are now needed on certain dental claims. Why? The decision dates back to 2009 when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pushed for… Continue On +
Can You Ever Be Objective?
How objective are you when it comes to making decisions? While we may think we are objective, we typically are anything but that. Consider what the American publisher and editor Henry R.… Continue On +
Profitable Hygiene Teams
How do you make your hygiene team more productive and profitable? Focus on the best care for your dental patients. For example, underperforming hygiene teams often miss opportunities to provide full or… Continue On +
Data Breach Coverage for Your Dental Practice
One of the worst things that could happen to your dental practice is to have a hacker access the protected health information of your patients. Then what would you do? You can’t… Continue On +
Make Your Vision Your Action
Malcolm Gladwell once said, “The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.” If you were going to start with a clean sheet of paper, how would you… Continue On +
Understanding Your Team
Effective leadership does not just involve the ability to get things accomplished. Good leaders are skilled at understanding other people’s perspectives. But what does it mean exactly to understand where someone else… Continue On +
REVISED DUE DATES FOR PARTNERSHIP, CORPORATION AND FOREIGN ACCOUNT RETURNS
The “Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015” was recently signed into law. Although this new law was primarily designed as a 3-month stopgap extension of the Highway… Continue On +
You Speak English and Body Language
When people work on improving communication skills, they naturally focus on what they are trying to say. What’s even more important, thought, is how you say it. The entertainer Mae West once… Continue On +
Win Your Patients Over With Prompt Follow-up
We have all experienced situations where we expected a healthcare provider or a vendor to follow-up on our questions; however they never called. What kind of impression did that make? In many… Continue On +
Are Cancellation Fees Effective?
Many dental practices attempt to curb cancellations by charging a fee. But is this effective? Cancellation fees, coupled with appropriate phraseology, work well as a deterrent against patients who call to cancel… Continue On +