Written by Shelley DeGroff, Founder & CEO of PPO Advisors Last Updated: August 17, 2026 The Guardian Medicare Advantage update is not a new Guardian Medicare product, and the Guardian and Aetna partnership is not new. These are two separate changes that dental groups have blended together, and the shorthand could lead a practice to ...
Written by Shelley DeGroff, Founder & CEO of PPO Advisors Last Updated: July 16, 2026 The dental credentialing timeline runs anywhere from 30 days to 9 months, depending on how you contract with each carrier. Direct contracts are the fastest at 30-60 days. Credentialing through a third-party administrator (TPA) is the slowest and can take ...
Written by Shelley DeGroff, Founder & CEO of PPO Advisors Last Updated: July 16, 2026 Network blocking is when an insurance carrier refuses to load a provider into its network, even though the carrier appears on the payor list of a TPA or shared network agreement the provider signed. The carrier always has the final ...