PPO Advisors Blog

Dental Practices Going Out-of-Network – the Difference Among Insurers

January 29th, 2023 by Shelley DeGroff

Shelley DeGroff, Founder of PPO Advisors More than ever, dental practices are exploring the idea of dropping all their insurance contracts and going 100% fee-for-service. Given the relentless effort by many insurers to lower reimbursements to providers, the appeal of totally eliminating insurance-pay from your practice is not surprising.  But going entirely fee-for-service isn’t easy ...

How Practice Owners Can Get Better Reimbursements from MetLife

December 9th, 2022 by Shelley DeGroff

By Shelley DeGroff, Founder of PPO Advisors The dental insurance landscape is constantly evolving. To keep up, practice owners need to be strategic about how they contract with insurers. There’s a tendency for dentists to adopt the “strategy” of simply trying to be in-network for everybody, but that’s neither feasible, nor financially sustainable. Instead, dentists ...

PPO Increases Pressure on Dental Providers to Lower Fee Schedule

December 9th, 2022 by Shelley DeGroff

By Shelley DeGroff, Founder of PPO Advisors If you’re feeling squeezed by your PPOs – you’re not imagining it and you’re not alone. Even as dental providers are struggling with the post-COVID labor shortage and high inflation rate, insurance companies are taking legally and ethically questionable actions in a bid to pressure providers into accepting lower ...