Dental Support Specialties Blog

Unless you live and breathe dental insurance, working with it can be complicated. Even seasoned administrative professionals can get confused by the language in policies, and it can be helpful to get back to the basics. Instead of getting overwhelmed by all the information on the breakdown form, here are the little bits you need to understand and then explain to your patient. That way, they aren’t likely to be angry when they owe money at the end of their appointment.

Insurance verification—it’s a necessary evil for dental practices who are in-network with plans, but it doesn’t have to bog your practice down. In fact, working with an insurance verification company can greatly help your practice. How? Here are just four benefits that this partnership provides and that can take your practice to the next level.

Regardless of what industry you work in, there are going to be slow days every now and then. However, gaps in your schedule on a regular basis can put you in a financial bind. Not only are you not bringing in as much revenue as you could, but you’re also paying your team to sit around with less productivity. How can you minimize the number of gaps in your schedule? How can your team fill up the time doing tasks that help the practice? Follow these tips!

Think fast—how many of your patients would you consider active? How many haven’t scheduled the work for their treatments plans? Although these questions may put you on the spot, they lead to important information to have every now and then.

Chart auditing, the process of determining the answers to these questions, may not be your top priority right now, but it needs to be done on a regular basis to keep a finger on the pulse of your patient base. In this post, you’ll learn why chart auditing is essential for your business and how to use it to your advantage.

When you opened your specialty practice, you hand-picked your administrative team. Perhaps they had previous experience in your field, or perhaps they were eager to shift gears away from general practices. In any case, they are now highly trained and work efficiently.

But what do you do when your front desk workers go on vacation, take a lunch break, or are on maternity (or paternity) leave? You need someone to take phone calls that won’t require a lot of extra training. Good news! Dental Support Specialties serves not just general practices but also oral surgeries and periodontal practices. Keep reading to learn the challenges that come with a specialty practice and how we can help you continue to thrive and grow.

When it comes to bringing in leads, there are many marketing tools at your disposal. From pay-per-click campaigns to SEO tactics, from backlinking to direct mail marketing, you can spend a pretty penny on getting your brand in front of as many people as possible. However, these effective methods can only generate leads. It’s up to you and your staff to convert these leads into paying patients.

Marketing can be well worth the investment, but it only goes so far. Instead of spending more money on marketing, you could bring in more revenue by taking advantage of the leads you already get. How? By having Dental Support Specialties answer your phone calls and schedule appointments!

During an appointment, you put together a great treatment plan for a patient wanting a smile makeover. You perfect every detail and discuss the financial aspect, and they seem genuinely interested in moving forward. You’re excited to have a high-cost case, but when the patient still hasn’t scheduled the treatment, you wonder if you’ll ever get it done!

Follow-up calls are important to keep your connection with patients strong and to keep them coming back. But does that mean your front desk team has  to call each patient? No! Keep reading to learn when and how to have follow up calls that are actually effective.

During busy times, your dental practice is humming with activity—you’re examining and talking with patients, your hygienists are cleaning teeth, your front desk staff members are checking patients in. When you have a lot going on, it may seem like an inconvenience to add another task to the mix.

However, if you aren’t currently taking the time for insurance verification, it could end up hurting your practice. Why is this step important? What could happen to your relationship with patients if you don’t do this? Keep reading to find out!

At some point in life, nearly everyone has experienced being misjudged. Others may have placed an inaccurate label on you or tried to put you inside a box that clearly doesn’t fit. We know the feeling.

At first glance, it may be easy to quickly judge Dental Support Specialties (DSS) as just another call center, but the truth is that we’re completely different! Although a call center employee answers the phone, and so do we, the similarities basically end there. We are proud to be unique from many other dental answering service companies in the following ways.

Every job comes with some amount of drudgery—those tasks that make the workday inch by. For the front desk staff at your dental practice, chances are their most dreaded tasks have to do with insurance. It’s a necessary evil in the field, but insurance can quickly wear you down unless you have some support.

In this post, you’ll learn about the various ways insurance can make everyone in your practice grumpy or even turn your practice into a toxic environment for patients and employees alike. Plus, you’ll learn how Dental Support Specialties can turn it around for you!