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Medical Billing for Dental Implants: Best Practices
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Medical Billing for Dental Implants: Best Practices

jonathanr2023-07-17T08:58:50-04:00

Medical Billing for Dental Implants: Best Practices Medical insurance billing for dental implant services is one of the most complex and challenging processes in the medical reimbursement arena. Dental implant reconstructions require a high level of clinical expertise on the clinician's part and involve high-tech diagnostic and treatment "armamentariums." On a per arch basis, dental implant services are lower in cost today compared to 20 years ago but, even with cost reductions due to time efficiencies, implant reconstruction procedures are still costly for the patient. For patients with documented medical necessity, the cost of reimbursement can be shifted to the [...]

Medical Billing for Dental Implants: Best Practicesjonathanr2023-07-17T08:58:50-04:00

The Limitations of Implant Knowledge, Part 2
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The Limitations of Implant Knowledge, Part 2

jonathanr2023-05-23T12:09:58-04:00

When you take the profession as a whole, single teeth implants are the only treatment modality most dentists have a basic understanding of and there are still docs who can't restore even a single implant. AOX Case Knowledge When we move to the partial arch case or the full arch case, even among those with good single tooth capabilities, the knowledge about full arch cases is very limited. Few understand what the current best options are for long term success with full arch cases. Few understand full arch restorative material choices. Few are capable of planning full arch cases surgically. [...]

The Limitations of Implant Knowledge, Part 2jonathanr2023-05-23T12:09:58-04:00

The Limitations of Implant Knowledge, Part 1
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The Limitations of Implant Knowledge, Part 1

jonathanr2023-05-23T12:10:42-04:00

When you take the profession as a whole, single teeth implants are the only treatment modality most dentists have a basic understanding of and there are still plenty of docs who can't restore even a single implant. Realty of Dental Implant Knowledge in the Profession When we move to the partial arch case or the full arch case, even among those with good single tooth capabilities, the knowledge about full arch cases is very limited. Few understand what the current best options are for long term success with full arch cases. Few understand full arch restorative material choices. Few are [...]

The Limitations of Implant Knowledge, Part 1jonathanr2023-05-23T12:10:42-04:00

Understanding AOX Case Discounts
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Understanding AOX Case Discounts

jonathanr2023-05-23T12:11:13-04:00

In a moment, you'll listen to one of our docs stories on how he gets full fees for cases. But first, a reality or two to consider. Reality #1 Most dentists resort to uncontrolled discounting as their only way to sell their services. Why? They simply don't know any better. Our program members completing and using the #1 big case sales training for advanced dentists understand how to reduce the need for discounting and control when and how much discounting occurs. The result - they do the cases they want at the the fees they want and ironically they help more patients [...]

Understanding AOX Case Discountsjonathanr2023-05-23T12:11:13-04:00

Advertising Realities for Full-Arch Cases: Concept #2 – Best Messages
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Advertising Realities for Full-Arch Cases: Concept #2 – Best Messages

jonathanr2023-05-23T12:22:27-04:00

I've gone into the long list of reasons why the public wants immediate implant procedures such as All-on-4 / All-on-X / etc. There are millions of patients in terminal dentitions and millions who will enter that category during their life and every patient in this category is interested in options. One thing is certain, they do NOT want the dentures they saw their parents suffer with (or not wear at all!). While ortho and cosmetics will always have an audience in dentate patients, we are in a 20-30 year expansion period in the segment of patients not exposed to fluoride [...]

Advertising Realities for Full-Arch Cases: Concept #2 – Best Messagesjonathanr2023-05-23T12:22:27-04:00

Just Say No To Dumb Discounting
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Just Say No To Dumb Discounting

jonathanr2023-05-23T12:25:15-04:00

FACT: The Full Arch Advertising Program with optional Medicare Medical Oral Surgery billing is the largest independent affiliation of practices delivering the much desired and much needed immediate loading dental implant solution to patients in terminal dentitions. There are many 'fast treatment' protocols and many implants out there be they premium priced or discounted that can WORK with the right case. It's even legal to design and manufacture your very own implant for about $20 per unit but that's another subject.... Can You Save Money On Implants? Sure and many docs are always rushing to cut costs on implant fixtures BUT [...]

Just Say No To Dumb Discountingjonathanr2023-05-23T12:25:15-04:00

Social Media for All-on-4 / All-on-X?
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Social Media for All-on-4 / All-on-X?

jonathanr2023-05-24T11:55:10-04:00

...in a nutshell total bunk, B.S., a waste of time and resources. The only thing even faintly close to social media that matters to a implant practice doing AOX cases are REVIEWS and PHOTOs of CASES treated that are posted/shown. When you look at all the types of advertising that we handle as an agency to find 36-100+ AOX cases annually for each client, you'll find almost no mention of Facebook, Instagram, etc. It's absence speaks volumes. What To Focus On Instead The best use of time, energy, and money is to focus on WHERE patients are actively searching for [...]

Social Media for All-on-4 / All-on-X?jonathanr2023-05-24T11:55:10-04:00

All-on-X Practice Websites: What’s Important
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All-on-X Practice Websites: What’s Important

jonathanr2023-05-24T11:59:11-04:00

Recently, I had calls with several All-on-X focused docs who had either recently spent $12K plus with Einstein Dental on a website or were considering it. It’s utter nonsense to spend this kind of money on a website now, next year, or the year after and be it with Einstein, Progressive, or whoever, and I’ll go into the reasons below. Now for these two particular practices for which we were discussing the Full Arch Program, when I hear $12,000 I think of 2-3 months of an ad budget to generate 6-10 full arch implant cases being consumed by something that [...]

All-on-X Practice Websites: What’s Importantjonathanr2023-05-24T11:59:11-04:00