California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Senate Bill 1311 into law, allowing unlicensed dental assistants in California to complete required infection control training through virtual courses. Five notes:
Roughly 37% of adults reported having dental debt in 2025, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The healthcare advocacy organization analyzed December 2025 data from the Urban Institute’s Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey to create…
Medicaid funding is tightening and uncompensated care is climbing. As those pressures mount, health systems can’t afford for the clinical and financial value of care they provide to go unrecognized. Much of that gap is structural. Targeted and retrospective reviews…
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More than 40% of dentists have added staff so far this year, according to a survey from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute. The ADA’s “The State of the U.S. Dental Economy” update for the third quarter of 2026…
Dallas-based Pearl Street Dental Partners recently appointed Rene Sauerteig as its next CEO. Mr. Sauerteig has more than 20 years of experience leading DSOs, most recently serving as the CEO of Parkview Dental Partners. Mr. Sauerteig succeeds David Meece, who…
Dentists who sold to private equity-backed groups were promised wealth creation. According to one dental CEO, many end up with a lower income, a payout that never arrived and little to show for it. Greg White, DMD, president and CEO…
As oral surgeons grapple with rising student loan debt and independent practices struggle to compete for new graduates, more providers are looking to partner with larger organizations. Richard Hall, chair of the board for U.S. Oral Surgery Management in Irving,…
There is a major thread running through most of what ails dentistry right now: reimbursement hasn’t kept pace with the cost of care, and seemingly all woes flow from there. Fee schedules are frozen, new dentists are graduating with record…
Dental consolidation has made its way up the food chain this year as some of the biggest organizations have gone shopping for other DSOs, from a Canadian company’s entry into the U.S. market to a three-way merger that created one…
Picture a revenue cycle where work is standardized before automation is applied. Repeatable, bounded tasks are automated within defined guardrails. Exceptions route to the people qualified to handle them rather than through a chain of escalations. Accountability is built into…
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