Bright Smile Dental Care, a dental practice in Fishers, Ind., has provided notice of a potential data security incident. On Aug. 3, the practice discovered ransomware on its server that affected its practice management, patient record and dental imaging software.…
The Latest
The American Dental Association has published the final recommendations of its first living guideline on the early detection of oral cancer and potentially malignant oral disorders. Six notes:
Getting a payer file is easy. Trusting it is not. In a late-2025 survey of 56 hospital and health system C-suite leaders, 87% said claims data matters to value-based care. Only 35% were confident it was accurate. Just 11% called…
Presented by:
When a health system sells its ambulatory laboratory operations, it collects a one-time payment and gives up the recurring revenue that testing would have earned for years. Many leaders underestimate how profitable ambulatory testing is, then watch the lost margin…
Presented by:
Your health system already earned the revenue, and now it’s sitting in a fax queue, in a denial nobody had time to appeal, and in an authorization that’s been pending for three weeks. See how health systems are clearing those…
Presented by:
Naples Comprehensive Health was managing roughly 40 travel nurses across four staffing agencies, each with its own systems, rate structures and communication processes. Recruiters contacted every agency individually, forwarded resumes, coordinated interviews, tracked compliance documents and reconciled invoices from multiple…
Presented by:
The Minnesota Board of Dentistry has provided notice of a data breach that impacted private licensee data, according to a Sept. 22 note from the Minnesota Dental Association. On March 13, 2026, Ashley Johnson, DMD, president of the dental board,…
Florida, South Carolina and Texas are among the states that saw the most DSO activity during the third quarter of 2026. Becker’s compiled a list of more than 70 DSO affiliations, openings and acquisitions during the third quarter. Here is…
The CDC updated its “Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel” guidance, adding a new section that consolidates how healthcare workers should be managed when they’re exposed to or sick with respiratory viruses. While the updated guidelines do not directly apply to…
Atlanta-based Georgia School of Orthodontics has named co-founder Christopher Lazzara as president. Mr. Lazzara succeeds Randy Kluender, DDS, who remains on the board of trustees as senior advisor to the president, according to a Sept. 28 news release. Mr. Lazzara…