“Help me help you!” I love that line in the film Jerry Maguire. It sums up the old truism that help comes after we help ourselves. This can be especially true when it comes to collecting from patients with past due accounts. By spending a little time...
Consultants have said that a healthy practice should collect 98% of adjusted production. Letting an account become more than 30 days overdue will cripple your cash flow and require you to invest more time and money into the account as you try to collect. The less time...
Do you have patients who call your office with questions about their billing statements, wondering what the “Balance Forward” charges actually are? When you generate your billing statements, the balance forward date, by default, is set to one month prior to the...
As the doctor in your practice, you went to dental school to create beautiful smiles and improve the health of your patients. However, you are still a business owner, and knowing what is going on in your business is certainly worth your time. A doctor once e-mailed me...
To run a profitable practice, it’s important to collect enough to cover your expenses and turn a profit. You can increase your collections several ways, but one of the easiest and most effective ways is to update your fees to ensure that they are in line with the...
Did you know that you can post payments towards a patient’s payment agreement while viewing their agreement terms? It’s part of the Payment Agreement Manager, a feature that was added in Dentrix G6.4, but you may not have know about it until now! To access...
