Accelerate Your Dental Practice with Malika and Michelle

Accelerating Your Practice During a Looming Recession

Michelle and Malika offer practical advice to help dental practices survive during arecession. They advise being cautious when it comes to dropping insurance plans,concentrating on keeping current patients, establishing a membership program, andtaking into account the use of third party financing companies, bearing in mind thatpatients will be more anxious than ever about the expense of dental procedures.
0:22 Todays topic2:30 Accepting/dropping insurances8:32 Accounts Receivable (AR)16:40 Re-care system23:34 Membership plans25:50 Preserving revenue— needs, wants, rainy day fund29:56 Wrapping up32:20 Closing words 
Malika Azargoon
ZarDentalConsulting.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zardentalconsulting/
Michelle Affanato
affinitymanagement.co
https://www.facebook.com/michelle.affinitymanagement/
 

Accelerating Your Practice By Automating Systems

Malika and Michelle talk about the advantages of automating systems in your dental office on the second episode of "Accelerating Your Dental Practice". It's important to streamline as much as possible during this staffing shortage.  Scheduling, treatment planning, payments, appointment reminders and review processes can all be automated to save valuable time and money.  Another bonus- most patients prefer automated systems over phone calls and physical mail!
0:22     Today's Topic
1:38     Scheduling
6:50     Treatment Planning
11:45   Patient Reminders
19:26   Online Payments
26:56   Reviews
29:40   Money and time savings
32:20   Closing words
Companies mentioned:
Online Scheduling:
LocalMed (www.localmed.com)
Flex Book (flex.dental/flexschedule)
Treatment Planning:
OrthoFi (www.orthofi.com)
Dentrix (www.dentrix.com)
Appointment and Payment Reminders:
Modento (www.modento.io)
Flex (flex.dental)
NexHealth (www.nexhealth.com)
Curve (www.curvedental.com)
Yapi (www.yapiapp.com)
Swell (www.swellcx.com)
Birdeye (www.birdeye.com)
 
Malika Azargoon
ZarDentalConsulting.com
 
Michelle Affanato
AffinityManagement.co
 

Accelerating Your Practice By Outsourcing

Welcome to the first episode of "Accelerating Your Dental Practice" with your hosts, Malika Azargoon and Michelle Affanato, Dental Management Consultants.  Starting off, Malika and Michelle discuss the advantages of outsourcing front office tasks in the midst of the hiring drought.  Dental practices can save a lot of time and money by outsourcing tasks including new patient calls, insurance verification and claims processing and follow-up.