April 28, 2026

Built to Get Paid Series - The Foundation (Part One)

30 minutes

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Your billing should not feel like a surprise every month. When collections swing up and down, it’s rarely because “insurance is just hard” it’s usually because the foundation was never built correctly. I walk through the core projects I use to make dental billing predictable, measurable, and strong enough to support growth, not just survive the next slow week.

We start where the money actually begins: UCR fee positioning. I explain why raising fees by a random percentage can backfire, how NDAS market percentile data helps you choose an intentional fee strategy, and how Fair Health can help you spot check codes using real claims trends. From there, we move into employer research so you stop signing PPO contracts based on guesswork and start aligning with the plans your patient base truly carries. Then we do the math most offices skip: fee schedule analysis that compares reimbursements to UCR and shows your real write off risk by procedure.

Next, I zoom out into business model strategy: traditional in network PPO, a hybrid out of network approach with key plans, and the realities of fee for service based on local demographics and discretionary income. To make all this usable, I share how to build a billing command center, clean up practice management setup with clear write off and adjustment categories, and tighten procedure mapping and coding structure so compliance and revenue meet in the middle. If you want your dental revenue cycle to run on data instead of stress, hit play, then subscribe, share this with your office manager, and leave a review so more practices can build billing that actually gets paid.

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