Dental Support Specialties Blog

Overall, your practice seems to be doing fairly well. Toward the end of the year, however, it’s good to develop some goals for the following year, but where exactly can you improve?

Most dental software systems out there allow you to track a ton of information. With so much data at your fingertips and key performance indicators (KPIs), how do you know which information is most beneficial? Here are just four KPIs that you should be tracking and regularly evaluating to see where you, your team, and your practice can get better.

You’re going about your normal day when suddenly you receive notice that you’re being sued—you have legal problems now. Have you been completely honest and truthful in your dental billing practices? Will they help you in your legal situation?

As a small business owner, you need to be aware of what is and isn’t legal, especially in your billing paperwork. Keep reading to learn about 3 illegal practices and how they can harm your business.

As a business owner, you like to see your finances in the green. Having a profitable revenue cycle gives you the freedom to acquire new technology, hire more team members, or simply build a financial cushion and breathe.

But your revenue cycles hinges on your dental billing process, especially insurance verification. If you don’t have an established, efficient process in place, you and your team can feel the pinch. In this post, you’ll understand more about the revenue cycle and how to make your billing process run more smoothly.

In dental school, you’re taught the technical skills necessary to be a successful dentist. You learn about how to care for patients, how to perform procedures, and a whole lot more! But no one really told you that dealing with insurance can be challenging. If your team isn’t doing it properly, your practice won’t get paid on time. How can you make sure you have successful dental insurance billing? Follow these four tips! 

If you want to increase your dental practice’s revenue, one of the first things that comes to mind is to get more new patients. Your existing patients are undoubtedly valuable, but new patients bring in additional funds and needs to fulfill. Although online marketing can be effective in attracting new patients, there are simpler, more creative ways to get your practice’s name out there! Keep reading to learn four tactics you should consider.

In your practice, you aren’t looking for bells and whistles—you just need someone to take over insurance billing duties. More specifically, you need a dental billing service. But in the internet age what exactly should you be looking for? What are the bare essentials your dental billing service must have to meet your needs? How do you know you’ve found the right one? Here are three requirements you should keep in mind in your search.

Good help is hard to find, but this saying seems particularly true nowadays. You can struggle to staff your dental practice, and then as soon as you feel you’ve regained footing, someone else leaves. If you want to hold onto your employees for the long haul, you’ll need to make working at your practice a more pleasant experience for your team. Keep reading to learn just four ways you can make dental staffing easier and last longer.

Are you looking for ways to improve your practice? Would you like to increase profitability and make your patients happier? Of course, your clinical performance and chairside manners matter, but are there things your administrative team could be doing to help your practice thrive? Keep reading to learn four tips for dental practice growth that can lead to success.

When you’re a business owner, one of your primary concerns is bringing in revenue. For dental practices, revenue is a little more complicated than simply providing a service and getting paid, and certain problems can come up. Here are just three common revenue problems dental practices can have and how Dental Support Specialties can help your practice work through them and get you paid on time.

There goes another one—an employee has just handed you their two weeks’ notice, citing burnout as the reason for leaving. You try to run a successful practice, but you’re struggling with dental staff turnover. You’re not alone; many employers throughout the country are seeing more turnover in what is being called the Great Resignation.

How can you hold onto your dental staff? How can you entice them to stay and help your business succeed? Read on to learn three simple things you can do!