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Managing Your Overhead and Profitability, Part II

by Jeffrey M. Blumberg

Jun 11th, 2010

This article is part two of a five-part series on how to increase practice profitability and manage overhead. To view part one. In last week’s article, we covered lowering overhead by realizing your collections potential and thereby increasing revenues. In this week’s article, we’ll cover overhead and expense basics, including general overhead categories, along with suggested percentages for each. We’ll…

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Managing Your Overhead and Profitability, Part I

by Jeffrey M. Blumberg

May 9th, 2010

The subject of finance, or money in general, tends to create quite a reaction in people. People “worry” about it, marriages run into trouble for lack of it and wars are started and fought over it. You’ve probably experienced this “odd reaction” firsthand when presenting treatment to patients. “Mrs. Jones” might be the nicest person in the world during the…

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National Health Care, Dentistry and your Future

by Jeffrey M. Blumberg

May 8th, 2010

“How is the new health care legislation going to affect my practice?” I’ve heard this question (or some variation of it) “quite a bit” since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act was signed into law in March of 2010. And, while I’ve had an opportunity to review the literally…

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The Real Reason Behind Collection Problems

by Gregory A. Winteregg, DDS

Apr 15th, 2010

You would be hard pressed to find a dentist that would not want to increase his collections without an appreciable increase in overhead. After all, if you are paying your bills now and were to increase your collections by $10,000 to $20,000 per month without much of an increase in overhead—that additional money is profit. The question is: How do…

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All About Associates, Part II

by Gregory A. Winteregg, DDS

Apr 8th, 2010

(This is Part II of a two part article on the subject of associates. For Part I, click here.) Dental Practice Associate MGE Perhaps now or some time in the future you’ll think about adding an associate. Whether that time is today or ten years from now, it is best to be informed on the subject. Part one of this…

Associate Dentists

All About Associates, Part I

by Gregory A. Winteregg, DDS

Apr 1st, 2010

(This is a two-part series. Part II) Several times a week I field associate-related questions. These come from dentists who need one right away, as well as doctors just entertaining the idea as a future goal. The pros to adding an associate are obvious: more service for your patients, potentially more time off, someone to cover emergencies, etc. There are…

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