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The Dentrix Office Manager: Your hygiene department is the lifeblood of your practice
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Your hygiene department is the lifeblood of your practice. Do you sometimes feel a little out of touch with your recare patients? Do you think sometimes there are patients you haven’t seen for a while and you wonder where they are? Are you ready to take your hygiene department to the next level? Your hygiene department is the lifeblood of the practice. PROPHY linked to D1110 and D1120. PERIO linked to D4910 and D4341. RECARE linked to D4910, D1110, and D1120. After you have cust...
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The Dentrix Office Manager: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Stop giving the insurance companies so much power. Will whoever gave the insurance companies the power to do whatever they want please stand? Oh yeah … we did. We have given and continue to give them power when we don’t have proper documentation to justify our treatment plan or confirmation showing that our claims have been received. If we don’t manage our systems properly, we have to do what they tell us to do because we can’t prove anything. Be in charge of your claims. Ask to s...
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The Dentrix Office Manager: August 2015
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Monday, August 31, 2015. Two options to help you manage your accounts receivable. I recently created an online course called “ Show me the Money. The Payment Agreement is one type of payment plan in Dentrix. Use this if patients have already completed their treatment and have an existing balance you want to extend for a period of time. Entering in the payment agreements into Dentrix will help you manage your accounts in three huge ways. On the Collection Manager Report. The second option for setting up a...
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The Dentrix Office Manager: Inactive, Archived, Non-Patient . . . . what do I choose?
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Inactive, Archived, Non-Patient . . . . what do I choose? I wrote an article titled “ At some point we need to let thepatient go. 8221; but does this mean the patient is inactive or should we archive him or her? What is the difference between a Non-Patient, Inactive, and Archived patient? Does your practice have its own definition or do you choose to just ignore it? My opinion is that if you have exhausted all your resources by calling, sending letters, and emailing patients and ...
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The Dentrix Office Manager: May 2015
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Put the pen down and put away the white out. What do you do if a patient tells you about his or her secondary coverage after you have already sent out the primary or after you have already received payment from the primary? How do you create a claim to send when you don’t have the “Create Secondary” tab highlighted to generate a secondary claim? I have had several answers. 8220;I delete the claim and recreate it so I can send it to the secondary.”. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. In my March...
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The Dentrix Office Manager: February 2015
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Monday, February 23, 2015. Best Practices for your team . . . daily. I have written many articles in my blog about all the different reports you should be looking at and the different statistics that are important to keep your eye on … but what is the “best practice” for these reports? Who should be looking at them and when? This first week of the series, we are going to start with what you need to be looking at on a daily basis. Front Office or Back Office. 8211; Make sure every new patient who is enter...
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The Dentrix Office Manager: Protect your livelihood and your computers from viruses
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Monday, July 27, 2015. Protect your livelihood and your computers from viruses. These viruses do not just hold Dentrix for ransom, they hold your entire computer and other systems on the network ransom. They are known as ransomware. The most widely known example from a few years ago was called cryptolocker (this particular version is almost eradicated); however, there have been many other copy cats and other versions that have since been created. In most cases, in order to receive malicious emails, spamm...
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The Dentrix Office Manager: Fee Schedules . . . The Method of Choice for PPO Plans
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Monday, October 17, 2011. Fee Schedules . . . The Method of Choice for PPO Plans. As I said in my last post, using Dentrix’s Fee Schedules takes a little bit of management but produces huge benefits! I am amazed at how many offices don’t know this Dentrix feature exists for setting up and managing fee schedules. If you are in one of those offices, it’s time to find it and use it – you’ll be so glad you did. Let’s walk through it together so that you can start seeing those benefits sooner than later.
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The Dentrix Office Manager: July 2015
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Monday, July 27, 2015. Protect your livelihood and your computers from viruses. These viruses do not just hold Dentrix for ransom, they hold your entire computer and other systems on the network ransom. They are known as ransomware. The most widely known example from a few years ago was called cryptolocker (this particular version is almost eradicated); however, there have been many other copy cats and other versions that have since been created. In most cases, in order to receive malicious emails, spamm...
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The Dentrix Office Manager: Business of Dentistry . . . why it's my favorite conference of the year
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Business of Dentistry . . . why it's my favorite conference of the year. It’s that time of year. It’s time to get your doctor and your team registered for the Business of Dentistry Conference. As you have heard me talk about before, I have never missed a conference and I am going to give you 5 reasons you and your team should not miss it either. This year's conference is being held Oct 7th - 10th in sunny Florida. There is something to learn for every member of your team. Bring it...
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