Practice Acquisition
Practice Acquisition
Your Next Acquisition Can Run Your Playbook on Day One — Whatever PMS It’s On
Every acquisition is an integration project, and the practice you just bought is on a different PMS than the rest of your group. Here's why your operating standard never actually depended on the software — and how a new acquisition can run your playbook on day one, whatever PMS it's on, without a migration.
You Promised the Dentist His Autonomy. You Also Need Consistency. You Can Actually Have Both.
You promised the selling dentist he could run it his way; you also need group consistency. Most software forces you to pick one. Here's why the standardize-versus-autonomy fight was never a real binary — if your system can set precedence decision by decision instead of once for the whole relationship.
Your Best Office Manager Just Quit. Did Your Practice Just Forget Everything She Knew?
The most valuable knowledge in a practice isn't in the PMS — it's in the head of the person who's run the front desk for eight years, and it leaves when she does. Across a DSO that's a permanent bleed. Here's how to stop storing institutional knowledge in people who can quit.
The Seven Structural Problems Every Multi-Location Dental Group Eventually Hits
Every dental group grows into the same wall. These are the seven structural problems almost every multi-location group eventually hits — knowledge loss, variance, the autonomy fight, multi-PMS integration, month-end blindness, board risk, and runaway overhead — and the single layer underneath that addresses all of them.
The Fee Schedule Watchdog: How to Catch the Silent Insurance Underpayments Eroding Every Acquired Practice
Payers quietly pay a few dollars under the contracted rate; acquired practices carry stale, wrong fee tables. One claim it's noise — across a group it's serious margin. Here's how to catch insurance underpayments at a scale no biller can match.