Indiana HB 1271 requires insurers to name who downcoded a claim and on what written criteria -- a mechanism worth reading wherever you practice...
A practice that dropped a plan while changing everything else at once fell from 1,200 active patients to under 300. The lesson is pace, not fear...
Billing the discounted insurance rate hides the one number that matters. Bill full fee, let the write-off show, and finally see what a plan costs...
Before dropping a single PPO, build the in-house membership plan patients land on. The sequencing, not the courage, is what makes the transition work...
When an out-of-network plan pays the patient instead of the practice, the office's financial policy and consent paperwork - not the insurer - determine whether that payment ever reaches the front desk...
Team wages are climbing faster than write-offs let a practice absorb; the ADA's own BLS-sourced data shows why the raise conversation keeps landing in the same six-month wall...
In-house membership plans aren't illegal everywhere, but the rules run state by state. What five states' laws actually say, and what to ask an attorney before you build one...
FFSA INSIGHTS August 11, 2026 Will I Lose Patients If I Drop My PPOs? This is the question that keeps dentists up at night. You’ve run the numbers, you know your PPO write-offs are eating 25–35% of production, and some part of you already knows the plans have to go. But then the fear shows...
FFSA INSIGHTS July 14, 2026 Dental Network Leasing: How One Signature Puts You in Plans You Never Chose Colorado just did something that ought to make dentists in a lot of other states a little jealous. Starting August 12, 2026, an insurer in Colorado has to get your actual permission before it...