The Navigating Dental Insurance Podcast

With thousands of active practice providers, Dental Intelligence is the market leader in providing dentists and their teams with any time, anywhere actionable metrics in a cloud-based dashboard, designed around the objectives of improving patient care, profitability, and overall team performance. http://get.dentalintel.com/sayno/

Mary Fisher-Day is a practice management coach and consultant and the founder of The Dental Business®. She is the author of The Dental Business; A Blueprint for Success; a well-received book in which she provides tools, resources and solutions for dental practice owners, future dental practice owners and Dental office managers. She has more than 30 years of experience in the dental industry and ha...

In this episode Jordon, Ben and Genevieve talk about our up coming event on November 2nd 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah! We discuss the courses we will be teaching and make a lot of jokes about insurance! Register for our event here - www.saynotoppos.com/event-2018 PROMO CODE: INSSUCKS

Cory is the CEO of CallForce, a dental solutions company dedicated to helping dentists across the country succeed in their practices by helping them improve their overdue hygiene recall. When he’s not helping dentists out, he enjoys keeping active and loves to play golf and tennis in his spare time. topic: Overdue patient recall and the true value behind it. Cory's website: www.getcallforce.com

Since 1988, Bob Spiel has been helping businesses and practices achieve increased production, profitability and personal enjoyment. With an MBA in Finance and General Management and post graduate work at Stanford and Georgia Tech, Spiel Consulting was founded to leverage Bob's passion for working closely with health care professionals - guiding them toward even greater professional and personal su...

Deana is a Regional Territory Manager for RevenueWell with over 26 years in dentistry (She was a HORRIBLE dental assistant for a year, but really great in the front office for 25 years!) She is a Fellow & Lifetime Member in the American Academy of Dental Office Management & a founding member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth AADOM Chapter, and has been a past nominee for Practice Administrator of th...

Glennine is a world class lecturer who is on factulty at some of the most prestigious continuing education organizations in the world. During this episode, she talks about medical billing and dental sleep medicine. She explains Medicare policies and how they are tied to sleep medicine. Glennine shares a wealth of knowledge on how to best navigate Medicare as a dental provider. Visit Glennine's web...

In this episode we share more ideas to help grow your practice and membership program. If you truly want to reduce dependence on dental insurance having a solid marketing plan is a a huge piece of the puzzle. Michael is the host of The Dental Marketer Podcast, one of the main writers/ contributors for The Dental Marketer Blog. He also has been doing Ground Marketing for about 8 years and has been...

Kirk Behrendt speaks and consults with dentists all over the world on how to create a Better Practice and a Better Life. As one of Dentistry’s Top Seminar Leaders and Online Education Platform Experts, Kirk has invested more than 23 years of his professional life optimizing the best systems and practices within the dental industry. Kirk has spoken at every major dental meeting in the United States...

Ms. Poppe has held many positions in the dental industry over the last 20+ years. Her expertise is proven by years of success in all aspects of practice operations. In addition to many years of clinical experience and practice management experience, Ms. Poppe has architected and facilitated numerous practice acquisitions, transitions, and relocations since she co-founded Stepping Stone Dental Part...

October 4th and 5th, 2018 will be the start of the industries biggest insurance conference. The Dental Insurance Extravaganza in Las Vegas. Please visit www.dentalmedicalbilling.com to learn more. There will be a line up of dental professionals who understand dental insurance who will speak on a number of topics surrounding dental insurance. We hope to see you there! To contact our hosts please em...

Benjamin Dangel is a Staff Accountant at Hinrich and Pesavento. Our expertise goes far beyond financial advisement. H+P has been providing dental professionals with exceptional tax, accounting, and business strategy consulting since 2015. As the premier dental CPA firm in the Midwest, H+P’s vast knowledge of the dental industry-focused client service, and unmatched ability to consult in every aspe...

Dr. Alan Stern has more than 36 years of experience as a dentist, in addition to an extensive background as a motivational speaker and life coach for dentists. Dr. Stern originally decided to become a dentist through his best friend’s father. His inspiration and sheer delight from dentistry motivated Dr. Stern to pursue a career in the profession. As the founder of Better, Richer, Stronger, LLC, D...

We forgot to post this one back in December. This episode, Tucker Nipko from Carr Healthcare Realty discusses the dos and don'ts of lease negotiations or real estate purchases. We invited Tucker to join our show as his area of focus is one that is widely ignored by healthcare professionals in general. Much like any savvy business person, we often are of the mindset that leases or real estate purch...

Brandyn is a CADCAM CEREC Digital Impression Specialist at Patterson Dental Supply. We’ve known him for years and have been to many dental meetings and conferences with Brandyn in recent years. He’s a true expert when it comes to CADCAM and CEREC. During this episode Brandyn talks about the advances in technology within the dental industry. Jordon and Ben explain how insurance should not and canno...

Penny Reed is a nationally renowned dental practice management coach, speaker and author. She works with dentists who want to grow their practices, become more profitable and have a better quality of life. As a result, her clients are more focused, have more income, more confidence and have happier teams to support them. Penny’s unique combination of management experience, success as a dental prac...

Brian Hanks is a dental accountant and works exclusively with buyers of dental practices. He's the author of the cleverly titled book, "How to Buy a Dental Practice - Volume 1" and owns and operates his own consulting business exclusively for dentists, and exclusively for dentists at BrianHanks.com. In the past, he's worked for two dental CPA firms, is a Certified Financial Planner. He h...

Naren Arulrajah is a well-known medical marketing entrepreneur, an accomplished author, speaker and consultant, and the founder and CEO of Ekwa Marketing. Naren hosts a popular Podcast show for practitioners and professionals in the dental industry. Naren has established the Ekwa Growth Club and the Ekwa Institute to help doctors in the US and worldwide achieve their goals through digital innovati...

Jared Parente educates us on all the details of a dental warranty program and how you can enhance your in-house membership program with a dental warranty. In this interview, Jordon and Jared discuss; The concept of a dental warranty, how a warranty can lead to greater case acceptance, how to use your warranty as a practice-builder, the risks of providing a dental warranty and how to manage these r...

KPI’s, you can’t live without them! Running a business is really tough to do without analyzing your key performance indicators. During this episode, Kevin explains several important dental KPI’s that everyone should be focusing on daily. Divergent Dental provides a very simple tool to allow you to access reports that are not readily available through practice management software. Visit http://dive...

Dr. Phelps is an entrepreneur and general dentist who owns multiple practices in the Charlotte, NC region. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998 with a BS in Biology and in 2003 he graduated Magna Cum Laude from the prestigious Nova Southeastern University, College of Dental Medicine in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. From 2003 to 2010 his passion for business and his f...

Dr Craig Spodak is one popular guy. Not only is his dental practice "THE" dental office for many celebrities, Dr Spodak himself is a renowned speaker and educator on many dental topics. During this episode Dr Spodak talks about how he set up his hybrid dental practice where he, and a few other doctors are fee for service while other docotrs in the practice participate with a wide set of...

Dr. Anissa Holmes, a Dentist, Business Acceleration Coach, Social Media Strategist, and Best Selling Author is a leader in the dental industry. Dr. Holmes has coached and advised coaches, million dollar practice owners, and startup practices. Based on her massive success, Dr. Holmes has been featured in top dental publications, such as Dental Economics, Dentistry IQ, and Dental Products Report, an...

During this episode, Ben and Kiera discuss an much needed office manager resource. Kiera discusses a new program she's launched that is designed to help office managers and many others working the front office on how to navigate all aspects of business. Team members can also gain access to insurance training through Kiera's new online tools. Check out her website: www.dentalmastersnow.com. To cont...

There are many misconceptions about the do's and don'ts during the credentialing process when you are purchasing a practice or joining a new practice as an associate or owner. The truth is, credentialing takes time and no matter what dental insurance people tell you, always prepare for the worst. Some PPO's take a full year to get credentialed. Most are between 60 to 120 days. But be prepared for...