Event Overview
Course Description:
Participation with insurance PPOs is common for many practices. Unfortunately, even though insurance participation is typically a huge expense, it doesn’t receive consistent improvement efforts, putting the practice at the mercy of whatever the insurance company wants to do.
The result? Practices often miss opportunities to increase PPO fee schedules, configure participation for higher profit or simply make costly errors that hurt profit margins!
In this webinar—for doctors and a member of their insurance team—you will learn how to participate with PPOs more profitably and avoid costly errors.
Topics include:
- Understanding the massive changes in PPOs that are occurring and how they threaten your practice profitability and ability to renegotiate fees
- How to assess your office fees in comparison to others in your area
- Mistakes doctors make when deciding which PPOs to take—or stay participating with
- Reducing PPO-related write-offs
- Why PPO fees can vary by up to 40% in the same geographic area
Art Wiederman, CPA | Director, Dental Division | Eide Bailly
For more than 35 years, Art Wiederman has specialized in serving dental practices in the Southern California area. He oversees a variety of professional services including accounting, tax compliance and planning, financial planning, retirement planning and financial practice management consulting. Art’s expertise is not only in taxation issues for dentists, but also in knowledge of dental practice metrics and benchmarks. He has the ability to look at a dentist’s profit and loss statements and practice management reports and identify profit holes in the practice. In addition, Art is adept at buy-in and buy-out consulting, practice start-ups, compensation plan development, operation evaluations, and litigation support for dentists. As an expert in dental practice accounting and financial management, Art is a regular lecturer at state, local and national dental conferences, dental societies and dental schools. He is a founding member of the Academy of Dental CPAs (ADCPA) and hosts the bi-weekly podcast, “The Art of Dental Finance and Management.”
Clint Johnson | Founder | Profitable PPOs
Clint Johnson is the founder of Phoenix-based Profitable PPOs, which focuses on helping dentists participate with the right PPOs, in the right way, and for maximum reimbursement. Hundreds of dental practices every year, across the United States, big and small, look to Profitable PPOs to provide the insurance participation management needed to make the most of their profitability—both in the present and in years to come.
Additional Information: This is a Group-Internet Based Webinar. No prerequisites or advanced preparation required. For information regarding refund, complaint and program cancellation policies, please contact Nicole Stolle or call 701.239.8589.
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