My Practice My Business: The Clinical Business of Dentistry
Welcome to The My Practice My Business Dental Podcast. I'm Dr. Rob Thorup, Clinical Director at MPMB. In our podcast shows we help dentists profit and thrive with excerpts from The Clinical Business of Dentistry Training here at MPMB.This podcast is dedicated to helping dentists and their teams reclaim forgotten profitability in dentistry, and to learn business skills specifically designed for dental practices. We look forward to your subscription, and we hope you let your colleagues know about our podcast. For more information on our GUARANTEED training, please visit us at www.mypracticemybusiness.com and surf our website pages. Our mission statement is simple: We increase the monthly net revenue of dental practices with our key methods, tools, and training utilizing every day, need-based dentistry, even with PPO plans. And we teach you how to do it ethically, legally, and morally, adhering to contracts and state laws, so you can be paid fairly for the services you provide.
My Practice My Business: The Clinical Business of Dentistry
The Sentence That Cost Dentistry a Fortune
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Have you ever stopped to think about how much damage a single sentence can do?
Not an entire law.
Not an insurance contract.
Not even a court decision.
Just...
one sentence.
A sentence so small that most dentists have probably read past it for decades without giving it a second thought.
Yet that one sentence has quietly shaped reimbursement, influenced insurance company behavior, altered clinical documentation, and, in our opinion, cost dentists across America hundreds of millions of dollars.
"Local anesthesia is usually considered part of..."
That sentence has appeared throughout the CDT Code for years.