Communicating with patients about their dental insurance is an important element in just about every dental practice.
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Running Time: 64:03 minutes
In this Thriving Dentist Show, Gary interviews his friend Teresa Duncan about how to communicate with patients about their insurance in a way that leads to greater case acceptance. Teresa literally wrote the book on this topic when she wrote: Moving Patients to Yes; Easy Insurance Conversations. In this information-packed interview Gary and Teresa discuss; How to lead with conversations about health with your patients rather than leading with conversations about insurance, the right verbal skills that lead to greater case acceptance, a wonderful discussion about how words matter including specific words to use and things you should stop saying, the three C’s of Confidence, Clarity and Conversation and the interview concludes with a discussion between Gary and Teresa about their predictions about the future of dental insurance.
Teresa’s website:
odysseymgmt.com
Link to Teresa’s Book:
odysseymgmt.corecommerce.com/Book/
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Link to Teresa’s online ‘Dental Insurance Skills Training’ (DIST) Program: odysseymgmt.digitalchalk.com/dc/learn/dental-insurance-skills-workshop-1
Use Code: THRIVING to receive a discount
Teresa’s email address:
teresa@odysseymgmt.com
Link to article about dentistry in Los Algodones, Mexico, a town of 6,000 with 600 dentists.
Gary Takacs
Gary became a successful practice owner by purchasing a fixer-upper practice and developing it into a world-class dental practice. He is passionate about sharing his hard-earned insights and experiences with dental practices across the globe. As a dental practice coach, Gary provides guidance for dental professionals on how to create a healthier practice style that lets them deliver excellent patient care while reducing depending on insurance.
More importantly, Gary’s insights are not just based on theory – as a co-owner of a dental practice, he has first-hand experience in making this transformation from a high-volume and low-fee insurance model to a fee-for-service approach that is more sustainable and promotes a patient-centric and financially healthy dental practice, and he is dedicated to sharing this knowledge with other dental practitioners via the popular Thriving Dentist Show!