Navigating the Dental Transition Minefield




In part three of our four-part transition series, we’ll take an in-depth look at the many issues dentists face when selling or purchasing a dental practice.

One of the leading professionals in dental practice transitions will point out the many issues you will face when attempting to sell or acquire a dental practice.

Areas will include:
A thorough, statistically relevant, random, sample records audit of patient charts to evaluate documentation, redo’s, consents, and financial arrangements. We’ll review days per week and hours along with internal and external marketing.

• Number of employees, salary and benefits
• Patient profile and age demographics
• Insurance status, fee for service, PPO, HMO
• If the seller is only a contracted provider for Delta Premier, how will that affect the practice after the sale?
• Insurance billing procedures (overbilling/fraud)
• Collecting co-payments
• Active patients based on the patient’s visit over the last 18 months
• Production, collections, adjustments, new patients
• Visits by month for the current and previous year
• Production breakdown by procedure type
• Continuing care and recall system
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