Dental insurance companies can help reduce inefficiencies and enhance patient care in several ways, according to Jordan Cooper, DDS.
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Many dentists want to see changes to reimbursements, benefits verification and claims processing to increase efficiency and improve patient care in 2024.
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Dental365 is focused on expanding its footprint this year while also enhancing the patient and doctor experience.
Dental workforce shortages, economic pressures and stagnant insurance reimbursement rates are just a few of the challenges that DSOs and dental practices are currently up against.
Florham Park, N.J.-based Select Dental Management is working hard to support the hygienists in its network while working with other organizations to recruit more hygiene professionals to its team.
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The increased cost of labor combined with low reimbursements have created a difficult environment for DSOs this year.
Recruiting top talent in the dental industry can be difficult, but holding onto the best staff members is a challenge in and of itself, especially in the current landscape of staffing in the dental industry.
Macroeconomic conditions, succession planning of practices and keeping new affiliates happy are three of the toughest challenges that DSOs have to face today.
Growth and pushing ahead are always top of mind for dentists and DSO executives. For one DSO leader, the expansion of specialty services is an easy growth opportunity to talk about but is difficult to perfect.
Stagnant reimbursement rates, redetermination of Medicaid eligibility and the complex billing process are just a few reasons why these three leaders feel that the biggest challenge in dentistry is the insurance space.