The Fee for Service Dentist Podcast

-The Families First Coronavirus Response Act -Helpful checklists for your practice -Helpful checklists for your staff -Helpful checklists for your patients -Guidance for how to come out of this while being results centered, internally directed, forced on others and externally open.   Damian's Guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T74Of5addQbbO9bUmPGXejNDAhp1idM4/view?usp=sharing   Dental Members...

In today’s interview, Dr. Sonny Spera shares how he is personally managing the coronavirus pandemic in his 5 dental practices. One of the biggest changes that they have made was to implement teledentistry through virtual consults. He explains in detail the system that he is using and how it’s working for him.    Episode resources:   Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect.com Dental Fi...

In today’s interview, Dr. Sonny Spera shares how he is personally managing the coronavirus pandemic in his 5 dental practices. He goes over the precautions that his team had been taking and the steps that they are taking now as new information comes out. He also shares is predictions for the coming weeks and months.   Episode resources:   Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect.com Den...

What is your practice doing to weather the storm during this coronavirus scare? What will you do if things get worse before they get better? Is it time to give up on FFS Dentistry or double down? Hear what Dr. Drew Byrnes is doing in his practice in today’s intro to the episode and then hear Dr. Sonny Spera’s tips for staying FFS through a recession.     Episode resources:   Dental Membership Dire...

Dr. Drew Byrnes sits down to discuss the ups and downs of building and growing a FFS practice, envisioning the future, while avoiding to going in network. This episode should help you pinpoint the pain points and challenges, as well as the victories, so that you are more prepared to embark on the journey for your practice.   Episode resources:   Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect....

One of the most common questions that we get from people considering adding  membership plans to their practice is how they can do it without losing profits on each patient. In today’s interview, Dr. Gillespie shows how in his practice, each membership patient has been more profitable than each FFS patient or PPO patient.   “We recently did some calculations in my practice where we compared produc...

One of the most common questions that we get from people considering adding  membership plans to their practice is how they can do it without losing profits on each patient. In today’s interview, Dr. Gillespie shows how in his practice, each membership patient has been more profitable than each FFS patient or PPO patient.   “We recently did some calculations in my practice where we compared produc...

One of the most common questions that we get from people considering adding  membership plans to their practice is how they can do it without losing profits on each patient. In today’s interview, Dr. Gillespie shows how in his practice, each membership patient has been more profitable than each FFS patient or PPO patient.   “We recently did some calculations in my practice where we compared produc...

I have a PPO. Do you take my insurance?  “If you have a PPO, you’re actually paying a premium to go to the dentist that you want to go to whether they are in network or out of network. “     “FFS dentistry is for doctors who love what they do.”   -Dr. Paul Mikhli    Episode resources:   Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect.com Dental Financing Direct www.dentalfinancingdirect.com De...

In today’s interview, Dr. Drew Byrnes asks Dr. Chris Phelps what he would do if he had to get 100 new patients the very next month. Dr. Phelps walks us through his recipe for success and encourages everyone to being implementing it tomorrow. Even if you implement just one of his strategies, you would begin to see results.     Episode resources:   Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect...

How to build your practice to resist the wave of DSP Diversification  Master marketing  Reverse engineer your goals Focus on “I get to do” vs “I have to do” The 5 most important KPIs for 2020 Episode resources: Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect.com Dental Financing Direct www.dentalfinancingdirect.com Dental Membership Master Course with Dr. Chris Phelps www.membershipmastercours...

Breaking the mindset that you can’t grow an established practice.  In today’s interview, Dr. Steve Garrett shares: How to break the mindset that you can’t grow an established practice How his FFS practice hit $6M in collection this year  Scheduling 9  chairs of hygiene and not losing your mind How being FFS has benefited his practice How he schedules new patients Adding a surgical suite When to re...

Breaking the mindset that you can’t grow an established practice.  In today’s interview, Dr. Steve Garrett shares: How to break the mindset that you can’t grow an established practice How his FFS practice hit $6M in collection this year  Scheduling 9  chairs of hygiene and not losing your mind How being FFS has benefited his practice How he schedules new patients Adding a surgical suite When to re...

How did your dental practice do in 2019? What can you do differently in 2020 to reduce stress, become more profitable and enjoy coming to work? Today, Dr. Drew Byrnes breaks his goals down into 4 different categories.    -Clinical - Clinical make up  - Case acceptance  - CE plan for the year    -Team Health  - Do you have the right team members in place? - Do you need to add more team members to h...

“The one thing you cannot automate is relationships”  In this interview, Dr. Dorfman shares what strategies she implemented which led to her hiring and keeping multiple associate dentists in her practice. We also find out how to help our teams and ourselves become more available to building relationships with out patients through automating the busywork. Dr. Dorfman also agrees to share her own do...

The American Dental Association is Suing Delta Dental.    In today’s interview with Teresa Duncan, you will find out:   What does this mean for dentists?  What does this mean for your practice? What is best case scenario? What is the worst case scenario? How will this most likely play out? Will out of network providers see better reimbursements?  What ripple effects will this have in our industry?...

In today's episode, Dr. Brett Murphey tells us how he was able to collect $26 million in his practice over the last 10 years. Episode resources:   Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect.com Dental Financing Direct www.dentalfinancingdirect.com Dental Membership Master Course with Dr. Chris Phelps www.membershipmastercourse.com     Do you have a FFS practice? Would you like to be inter...

In today’s interview, you will hear Dr. Alan Mead from the Dental Hacks podcast interview Dr. Drew Byrnes on his experience of building a FFS practice and what he may have done differently.      Episode resources:     Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect.com Dental Financing Direct www.dentalfinancingdirect.com Dental Membership Master Course with Dr. Chris Phelps www.membershipmast...

In today’s interview, you will learn:   How successful practices position themselves to be able to not accept dental insurance. Strategies that even bread and butter general dentists can use to reduce their insurance dependancy.  Ways to provide enough value in any demographic to keep patients coming back.   This is a information backed episode which you may want to bookmark for future listens.   ...

Jason and Jen Tubo own a dental practice in a blue collar town. After getting fed up with changes being made by dental insurance companies, they decided to take matters into their own hands and go out of network with all insurance companies. Listen to today’s interview to find out how they trained their team to prepare for that change, how they marketed differently and how their practice grew as a...

Jason and Jen Tubo own a dental practice in a blue collar town. After getting fed up with changes being made by dental insurance companies, they decided to take matters into their own hands and go out of network with all insurance companies. Listen to today’s interview to find out how they trained their team to prepare for that change, how they marketed differently and how their practice grew as a...

Do you have a FFS practice? Would you like to be interviewed? Fill out the FFS Stories request form here: https://goo.gl/forms/7TaUF9Nqi49l1RFF2     Episode resources:     Dental Membership Direct www.dentalmembershipdirect.com Dental Financing Direct www.dentalfinancingdirect.com Dental Membership Master Course with Dr. Chris Phelps www.membershipmastercourse.com See Privacy Policy at https://art...

Dr. Shaina Holman is a regular guest of the FFS Dentist podcast. Listen in as she shares what led to the growth of her start up dental practice in a saturated market. She has not even been open for 2 full years yet and she is already adding 3 more dental chairs and a full time associate as they are trending towards $1.6M for year number 2.     Do you have a FFS practice? Would you like to be inter...

Dr. Shaina Holman is a regular guest of the FFS Dentist podcast. Listen in as she shares what led to the growth of her start up dental practice in a saturated market. She has not even been open for 2 full years yet and she is already adding 3 more dental chairs and a full time associate as they are trending towards $1.6M for year number 2.     Do you have a FFS practice? Would you like to be inter...

Dr. Steve Hecklin has been practicing FFS dentistry since 1982. Three years ago, he decided to acquire another dental practice and hire an associate. Steve believes in doing what you love and he loves to do dentistry. In today’s interview, he shares with us what has helped him to succeed in the FFS world for all of these years and the advice that he has given to his associate to allow him to conti...