Podcast: Insurance-Free: Is It for Me?

ACT Dental recently interviewed Shelley DeGroff, PPO Advisors Founder and CEO. She shares insight into how PPO contracts work and advice for strategically dropping your PPOs. Insurance-free is the way to be! Listen to the Podcast Summary: 1. How early should I start the PPO setup process for my dental practice? Initiating the PPO setup ...

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

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 ...

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How Practice Owners Can Get Better Reimbursements from MetLife

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 ...

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