Consulting Packages

Available consulting packages to assist your practice.

Effective Documenting, Coding and Billing in the Dental Practice

Are you getting paid for everything you are producing?

Are you accurately identifying and billing the correct procedure at the right time?

Are you frustrated by repeated requests for additional documentation?

Accurate coding begins and ends in the clinical operatory— not the front desk. From the patient's first diagnostic radiograph to the successful conclusion of their evaluation visit — appropriate coding is one of the critical keys to successful and stress free reimbursement.

How that documentation later becomes your bank deposit is yet another story. The entire team has to be singing from the same song book, page and stanza for the simplification to take place. Everyone from the doctor, hygienist, clinical assistant, business agent and office administrator has their own individual yet interdependent role.

Coding and Billing Analysis Includes:

• A documentation process created to build upon your existing administrative and clinical systems.
  
• Customized course of action will be designed based on the results of the analysis.
  
• Coding and Claims Submission Manual
  
• Two, 45 minute phone consultations to discuss and facilitate your action plan.

Additional learning and follow-up sessions are available and will be designed to fit your individualized administrative and clinical needs.

PPO Plan Participation Analysis and Action Plan

Is participating in PPO plans making or costing you money?

Would participating in PPO plans generate more revenue for your practice?

Participatory benefit plans are nothing new. For some dental offices PPO's and other managed care derivatives is a practice life saver— for others they are a nightmare. A consistent influx of new patients complimented with direct payment from the plan administrator can keep the doctor's appointment book, hygiene schedule and subsequent bank deposit predictable — provided you and your team do their part.

PPO Plan Participation Analysis Includes:

• Customized Comprehensive Fee Schedule Analysis: enables you to clearly see how and where your individual fees compare to those actually being charged in your neighborhood.
• Practice Analysis and evaluation of services performed to determine your market share potential.
• Time utilization will be accessed to see what your open chair time is costing you.
• Our textbook, Fee-For-Service Dentistry with a Managed-Care Component, is included as your action plan guide and reference.
• One-hour individualized telephone consultation to help implement your success strategy.

Eliminating Fraud and Embezzlement in the Dental Office

Wonder why your collection percentage is lower than it should be?

Do you have a team member with too much control over your checkbook?

Would you like to take steps to protect your practice from embezzlement and insurance fraud?

The November 2005 issue of the ADA Community Brief states that 35% of dental offices have been embezzled from. In other words, that is one out of three dental practices. If you think it can never happen to you, think again.

The best dental and accounting software, by itself, cannot protect you from employee embezzlement and/or fraud. Only when the right systems are used in the right way are you assured of security in your practice.

Fraud and Embezzlement Analysis Includes:

• A detailed study of your practice's audit trail and write-off reports
• Cross-referencing of patient records in question.
• Investigation to include but not limited to bank account transactions and dental software ledgers.
• A comprehensive action plan of security measures to be implemented and suggestions for eliminating any present problems.
• Two, one-hour, phone conferences. The first, a fact finding interview to gather information. The second one-hour phone conference will be a follow-up to cover your action plan.

Additional follow-up sessions and investigative assistance is available and will be designed to fit your individualized practice needs.