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Insurance Untangled — 147 episodes

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The Office Manager's Greatest Leadership Mistake: Building a Practice That Depends on One Person

2

Stop Guessing. Start Leading. How to Read Your KPIs and Make Better Business Decisions

3

The Next Billion-Dollar Opportunity in Dentistry

4

Fighting Back: Fee Negotiations and Taking Control of Dental Insurance

5

The Art of PPO Fee Negotiation

6

The Experience that Keeps Them Coming Back

7

Why Only Half Your New Patient Calls Are Actually Converting

8

What financial issues could be hiding inside your dental practice's books before they become costly problems?

9

Beyond Insurance: The Hidden Habits and Systems That Protect Your Practice's Profitability

10

How Do Successful Dental Groups Run on Data? The KPIs, Metrics, and Operations Behind Profitable DSOs

11

Are Your PPO Fees Costing You Thousands in 2026? How to Negotiate and Take Back Control

12

Why Doing "More" Isn't the Answer — Doing the Right Things Is!

13

Why Your Schedule Controls You and How to Change That

14

What Google Really Wants From Your Dental Website in 2026

15

The Hidden Dangers of Doing The Wrong Kind of Marketing

16

How to get patients to stay with your dental practice for life?

17

Fighting the Culture of Insurance Claim Denials in Dentistry

18

Do Dentists Really Have to Stay Trapped by PPOs?

19

Do You Have a PPO Exit Strategy?

20

Umbrella network changes today that will impact you tomorrow

21

Getting Back to the Basics: Why Foundational Marketing Matters for Every Dental Practice

22

Spending Time Building Relationships with Patients Can Help You Reduce Your Dependence on PPOs!

23

Why Dentists Are Going Out of Network with Dental Insurance

24

SEO is complicated, but here's why it can work in your favor!

25

Why Many Dental Practices Struggle to Grow (and How to Break Through the 2–5 Patient Barrier)

26

What's happening with out of network benefits?

27

Reasons Why Most Practices Struggle to Grow

28

Success in Dentistry is a Team Effort

29

The complexities of PPO Fee Negotiations in 2025

30

How to Grow Your Dental Practice in Uncertain Times

31

The 80/20 Rule in Marketing Your Dental Practice

32

Personality Assessment and Training - Building a Team Culture that Thrives

33

AI Is Changing How Patients Find You—Everything You Need to Know to Adapt & Thrive!

34

Doing More High-Value Cases to Reduce Your Dependence on Insurance

35

Hiring Associates: What to consider to find and retain the best talent

36

From 6 Figures to 7 Figures: Lessons To Learn

37

How Much Marketing Does Your Dental Practice Actually Need to Succeed?

38

Developing a Dental Practice Brand Identity to Attract the Right Patients

39

Random Choice vs. Getting Patients to Choose Your Dental Practice; and Why It Matters!

40

How To Respond When Insurance Makes A Mistake And Patients Blame You

41

Do More of the Dentistry You Want, Not Just What You Can

42

How to maximize coding and billing in your hygiene department.

43

When Is the Right Time to Start Marketing Your Practice?

44

PPOs are an Addiction - You need to break free!

45

4 Dental Marketing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

46

Running A Successful Practice, No Matter If It's A PPO Or FFS Practice, Requires Solid Leadership

47

Why Helping Others Helps Yourself Grow: Lessons from an Entrepreneur

48

Profound Mini-Lessons for Dentists - A book you want to read!

49

Building a Practice That Can Withstand Any Challenge

50

How to Stop Insurance Plans from Paying You with Virtual Credit Cards

51

How to Build & Own a Sustainable, Thriving Dental Practice

52

The Top 4 Mistakes Dentists Make When Going From One Location to More

53

How Can My PPO Practice Break Free from PPO Dependence?

54

Why Isn't My Marketing Working?

55

Industry Outlook for The Next Decade

56

Understanding Medicare in the Dental World

57

How to Make Marketing Work For You Without Becoming an Influencer

58

Why More New Patients Won't Solve All Your Problems

59

What to do when insurance denies claims, repeatedly

60

Tax, fees, and insurance, a CPA's perspective on dental numbers

61

How to Audit Your Marketing When It's Not Bringing in New Patients?

62

What Is and Isn't a Marketing Strategy?

63

5 Metrics You want To Master in 2025

64

How the recent United Healthcare news may change the industry for better!

65

3 Goals to Make 2025 Your Best Year Yet

66

What do you do with negative reviews?

67

Phone Experience is Vital to Your Practice Health

68

Insurance Strategies to consider for 2025

69

The Best Offense is the Best Defense

70

Usual and Customary Fee trends and How setting fees can impact your insurance reimbursements

71

Your Marketing Blueprint to Make 2025 Your Best Year Yet

72

Negotiating with Insurance through associations, study clubs, and dental cooperatives. The Do's and Don'ts

73

Can I charge patients an upgrade for Added-Value treatment?

74

New PPO Fee Negotiating Trends to consider

75

Three Things You Must Know About Marketing

76

Is PPO Fee A Marketing Expense?

77

The Truth about What Your Marketing Company Owes You!

78

An insider's view of insurance and ideas on how to offset big write-offs.

79

How to appropriately handle insurance denials

80

The Difference Between An Effective Website And A Poor Website

81

What's one of the trending problems you see among struggling offices?

82

A View on "Normal" Marketing vs "Exceptional" Marketing

83

Primary and Secondary/Coordinating of Benefits

84

Insurance Contracts Are Changing. What To Look Out For.

85

Four Marketing Habits That Will Transform Your Dental Practice

86

Can government agencies help appeal denied claims?

87

Working on the Business versus Working in the Business

88

Why are umbrella network affiliations among PPOs on the rise?

89

What is NAP, and why is it important?

90

Is the PPO practice model the best way forward?

91

Are you a dentist who runs a business, or are you a business person who happens to be a dentist?

92

The Challenges With Perio Billing And Perio Denials

93

Are You Using Influence Principles to Attract and Retain New Patients

94

What are umbrella networks, or leasing networks?

95

What You Need to Know to Get New Patients to Book Appointments

96

Which is better to purchase, a PPO or FFS Practice?

97

Is it helpful to seek the assistance of a State Insurance Commissioner in situations where it's difficult to get denials overturned?

98

What are the top dental insurance-related issues practices are going through this year in 2024?

99

What are the 5 Things Every Successful Dental Practice Does?

100

Is it possible to detect claims processing errors on the part of insurance?

101

Take Aways from An Amazing Insurance Untangled Event

102

The Biggest Lessons from Our Dental Clients

103

Dental plan types and non-covered service laws

104

Creating processes to increase your practice valuation

105

Top 3 Marketing Questions Practice Owners Ask

106

What Insurance Executives Are Planning For 2024 As It Pertains To Relationships With Dentists

107

Building a Practice that Can Thrive Without You

108

What is your Conversion Rate?

109

Are Insurance plans finally making big changes for the new year?

110

How to grow a membership plan with small business owners?

111

5 Marketing Strategies That Will Shape 2024 To Be Your Best Year Yet

112

The Dental Buyer's Journey with Credentialing and Fee Negotiations

113

10 Reasons NOT to Manage Your Dental Memberships Manually

114

If you are not an Influencer, don't bother with Social Media!

115

Do Insurance Plans Lease CDT from American Dental Association?

116

Incentivizing Dental Staff for Membership Plan Success

117

Why Practices Fail with Marketing?

118

What is a healthy collection rate to maintain in a dental office?

119

Subscription Revenue Reinvestment Strategy

120

Can Social Media Help Me Get New Patients?

121

Growing PPO Fee Negotiations Amid Dentist Network Dropouts

122

Why Dental Membership Plans Fail

123

Are You Using Google Reviews To Grow Your Practice?

124

How many doctors in dentistry are dropping insurance these days and why?

125

The Dental Buyer's Journey

126

Using AI to grow a membership plan

127

How do insurance plans, like Delta, pay out of network?

128

How to Scale a Membership Plan

129

How to Apply Reciprocity to Grow Your Practice?

130

Cigna caught auto-denying claims using AI!

131

Membership Psychology - Why Members Are Committed

132

How to Dominate Google SEO?

133

How to Deal with Refund Requests from Insurance

134

Creative Membership Plan Offerings

135

The 3 Biggest Marketing Mistakes Practices Make

136

How Insurance Deals with You When You Go Out of Network

137

7 Ways to Grow Your Dental Membership Plan

138

The Cost: PPO versus Google Ads versus Google SEO

139

Upgrades and Non-covered services

140

Why Recurring Revenue Matters

141

Replace Delta with Google

142

Current Challenges with Insurance Billing and Solutions to Fix them

143

Is it Possible to Successfully Resign from PPO Plans?

144

What are the Benefits of a Dental Membership Plan?

145

PPO Fee is a Marketing Expense

146

The Climate of PPO Fee Negotiations in 2023.

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