Developing a successful payment system in your practice is very important in a Thriving dental practice.
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Running time: 58:50It can be extremely frustrating to do dentistry and not get paid! In this Show Gary invited his friend Andy Cleveland to discuss how to master payment success in your practice.
In this interview Gary and Andy discuss;
- How to create a positive payment culture in your practice,
- some very specific benchmarking to define your payment goals including Gary’s four Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to measure your practice payment success,
- how to retrain your patients to expect to pay at or before time of service,
- how to get paid yet remain patient friendly in the process,
- payment tools that every dental practice needs,
- the concept of outsourcing insurance billing and patient billing and how to determine if your practice could benefit from outsourcing
- and the interview concludes with a discussion of best billing practices.
Links from ‘Top Clinical Tips’ with Dr. Lee Ann Brady:
Lee’s website: www.leeannbrady.com
Restorative Nation website: www.restorativenation.com
Link to Andy’s website: www.andycleveland.com
Gary Takacs
Gary became a successful practice owner by purchasing a fixer-upper practice and developing it into a world-class dental practice. He is passionate about sharing his hard-earned insights and experiences with dental practices across the globe. As a dental practice coach, Gary provides guidance for dental professionals on how to create a healthier practice style that lets them deliver excellent patient care while reducing depending on insurance.
More importantly, Gary’s insights are not just based on theory – as a co-owner of a dental practice, he has first-hand experience in making this transformation from a high-volume and low-fee insurance model to a fee-for-service approach that is more sustainable and promotes a patient-centric and financially healthy dental practice, and he is dedicated to sharing this knowledge with other dental practitioners via the popular Thriving Dentist Show!