A merger brought three hospitals and thousands of new employees into Wellstar Health System — including clinicians learning Epic for the first time. Support requests surged overnight. With hospital margins under pressure, adding headcount was not an option. Instead, Wellstar…
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Here are 12 dental technology updates from September, including lawsuit settlements, industry partnerships, acquisitions and more: 1. Dental Intelligence, a practice management software company, agreed to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit for $5.75 million. 2. The University of Illinois Chicago…
As DSOs continue to scale, independent dental practices are competing against organizations with more purchasing power, greater leverage with payers and centralized back offices to take administrative work off dentists’ plates. Those advantages come at a cost to independent practices,…
Houston-based Specialty1 Partners has entered a joint venture partnership with Greater Waterbury (Conn.) Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons. The practice is led by John Hillgen IV, DMD. The deal pushes Specialty1’s network to 226 locations across 29 states. Specialty1 Partners has…
Several DSOs and practices have inked collaborations with organizations in other countries to expand their services. Here are three international deals that have taken place so far this year: 1. Rochester Hills, Minn.-based Daia Orthodontics & TMJ Orthopedics, expanded into…
Dental organizations are piloting AI across ambient documentation, diagnostic imaging, treatment planning and revenue cycle management. Many tools perform well in demonstrations, but translating that promise into enterprise-wide impact remains difficult. During a featured session sponsored by Dandy at Becker’s…
Some of the costliest patients in your hospital are the ones who are ready to leave but impossible to place. Legal, transportation and logistical barriers can keep a single case open for days or weeks, tying up beds while consuming…
The largest DSOs are largely owned by various private equity firms that have helped fuel the companies’ technology investments and network expansions. Here is the ownership structure for the 10 largest DSOs in the U.S., according to the most recent…
Generative and agentic AI are reshaping revenue cycle work faster than most teams can vet. The harder question isn’t whether to adopt, it’s where to invest and how to scale without breaking day-to-day operations. In this discussion, revenue cycle and…
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Recoupments are one of the least-visible threats to an ASCs margin. They surface as offsets and provider-level balance adjustments months, sometimes years, after the money was already counted as collected. For surgery centers running lean billing teams, that timing is…
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