Going With The Flow I recently read an article in which the author recounted his experience with a hot air balloon ride. Now I’ve never ridden in a hot air balloon, so I’m trusting that his account is at least fairly accurate. After becoming airborne, he started asking the pilot a few questions about their journey. One aspect of the ...
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Referral Gifts and Groupon Discounts The legal division of the American Dental Association recently sent a memo to all State Dental Association Executive Directors to provide some guidance on the topics of: 1) gifts, incentives or discounts given in exchange for referrals; and, 2) Groupon discounts. The crux of the memo is that dentists may ...
Read More(We get lots of questions on this topic. This is a resource available to those who want to know about cross-coding. MG) Manual: Cross-Walking — A Guide Through The Crosswalk of Dental to Medical Coding $390.00 This manual is designed to train dental staff members in implementing a dental-medical cross coding system within ...
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Read MoreNETMA: Nobody Ever Tells Me Anything Always Look For The WHY One of our consultants called me yesterday to get my take on what was happening in a practice on the west coast. The office has two young dentists who in just a couple of years have a huge thriving practice. They currently have four hygienists and are ...
Read MoreTHE SUPER “GENERAL” DENTAL PRACTICE Nothing stays the same. There are always game changers and evolving situations. This is true even in Dentistry. The problem is that most of us are not seeing it: We can’t see the forest for the trees, or we are just too close to the problem to properly assess the ...
Read MoreWords of Wisdom from Andy Rooney Andy Rooney was a popular radio and television writer. He was most notable for his weekly broadcast “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney,” a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired Oct. 2, 2011. He died one month later, on Nov. 4, 2011, at ...
Read MoreThe Priceless Ingredient In the city of Bagdad lived Hakeem, the Wise One, and many people went to him for counsel, which he gave freely to all asking nothing in return. There came Saim, a young man who had spent much but got little and said: “Tell me, Wise One, what shall I do to receive the most for that which I spend?” Hakeem ...
Read MoreLast month was very strange. I actually visited several dentists’ offices and had the opportunity to critique what I observed as an outsider. These four practices were located in large modern cities with a lot of dentists on every corner. Overall the staffs and doctors were very nice. What surprised me was the complete lack of ...
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