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Jeffrey M. Blumberg

Chief Operating Officer, MGE

A dynamic and entertaining speaker, with over twenty years of experience as an executive in the business world and in the dental industry, Jeff has lectured to over 10,000 dental professionals and their teams. At the helm of MGE as the Chief Operating Officer for the last twenty years, Jeff has engineered incredible year-over-year expansion, resulting in over 500% growth overall. MGE clients also see the most rapid growth in the industry—with an average growth rate of 232% over five years—and Jeff's design and oversight of the MGE program is a major part of that.

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What to Do When a Patient Is Disapproved for Financing

Sep 17th, 2025

Imagine this: You’ve just presented a comprehensive treatment plan. The patient is excited and motivated to move forward. You send them to the treatment coordinator to sort out the finances… only to find out they were denied financing. Now what? Don’t let that be the end of the story. Here’s how to approach this situation to salvage the case—and prevent…

Overhead and Profitability

How to Create a Staff Bonus Plan for Your Dental Practice!

Sep 9th, 2025

Note: This blog post is being provided as suggestions and ideas from which to construct bonus systems for your office. This is not to be taken as a guarantee that the information provided is appropriate to your practice. Each practice is individually responsible for ensuring that any bonus system implemented complies with the applicable federal, state, and local accounting, tax,…

Case Acceptance

The Top 5 Mistakes Dentists Make When Presenting Treatment (And How to Avoid Them)

Apr 15th, 2025

Improving case acceptance can be a game changer. It’s not just how it affects collections and your bottom line (which it does—directly), it also impacts your day-to-day enjoyment of dentistry. Instead of just doing “what insurance covers,” you’re doing a lot of full treatment plans—the dentistry your patients actually need—the kind you like doing. You get better clinical outcomes. Your…

Case Acceptance

How Long Should a New Patient Initial Appointment Be?

Feb 26th, 2025

What’s your procedure for scheduling new patient initial exams? Do you schedule new patient initials with only the doctor? Or are they scheduled in hygiene with the doctor doing the exam at the back end of the appointment? And how long do you schedule these appointments for? An hour? An hour and a half? Two? If you’ve ever asked yourself…

Marketing

Why Your Marketing Isn’t Working – A Guide to Solving Your New Patient Problem

Nov 26th, 2024

You’re doing everything you’re supposed to—Google and Facebook Ads, postcards, asking for referrals, and you have a beautiful sign that thousands of people pass every day. But… despite all the money you’re throwing at it, your new patient numbers are still, well, TERRIBLE. “Frustrated” doesn’t even begin to describe how you feel. And as more months of “spend, spend, spend”…

Overhead and Profitability

Managing Payroll: How to Optimize Your Practice’s Overhead

Oct 30th, 2024

Have you ever felt that your payroll is eating up too much of your revenue? Well, you’re not alone. But how high is too high and what should it be? What Should Payroll Look Like? I’ll cut to the chase. For U.S. dental practices, your payroll percentage, including employer payroll taxes—should ideally not exceed 22.5% of revenue. Now—important note: This…

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