With Special Treatments and Procedures It’s important to add special services to your dental savings plan for 2 reasons: It makes your plan more desirable to your new and existing patients. It gives you a competitive advantage over other offices in your community that also offer membership plans. Dental savings plans are becoming more prominentRead more
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It only makes sense to create one simple plan (with one enrollment fee) that can successfully be applied to all patients in your practice. It’s easiest for your team to present and manage, and it’s easiest for your patients to understand. Offices sometimes develop three different plans and enrollment fees to make something specific forRead more
You Only Need One! Are you juggling 3 different dental savings plans in your practice? One enrollment fee for a “healthy” mouth, a different enrollment fee and plan provisions for your perio patients, and yet a third for kids in your practice? If so, why? It not only causes confusion for your patients but it’sRead more
If you’ve been practicing for more than 14 years, you’ll remember how your practice changed in 2008 during the Great Recession. I was managing my husband’s practice then, and the economic downturn was frightening. Practicing in downtown Chicago meant that most of our patients worked nearby but did not necessarily live close to our office.Read more
It’s time to start your dental savings plan, and you need an enrollment fee. What’s it going to be? What will be included with it? Will it be a monthly fee or an annual fee? How do you know you are calculating it correctly so that it’s beneficial to your practice and attractive to yourRead more
Which is better – having a dental savings plan where a third-party customer service handles your patient enrollments and cancellations? Or, is it better to have your own team handle it within your practice? We are programmed to automatically favor outsourcing tasks if possible, but honestly, I disagree that you should leave something as valuableRead more
Two of the greatest administrative benefits of a dental savings plan are that there are no insurance claims to file or track down, and there is no estimating of the patient’s financial portion. What time savers for your team! So why would you then put upon them the increased burden of manually processing and reprocessingRead more
Almost every time I help an office establish a dental savings plan, I’m asked if they should allow patients to use 3rd party financing (like Care Credit or LendingTree) for their dental treatment – like they allow for their “regular” patients to do. In their minds, they’re already reducing their standard fees for plan members,Read more
When I work with new dental clients, I’m often asked if they should offer their dental savings plans only to new patients. I believe this question stems from the dentists’ fear that their revenue will drop because of the plan discounts provided to patients. They’re concerned because their existing uninsured patients have been willing toRead more
Frequently I speak with dentists who have tried to create their own in-house membership plan, and they often tell me the same thing when they have included the prophy in their dental savings plan’s enrollment fee. Patients are angry because they paid for two cleanings per year through my membership plan, but now they needRead more