By Robert McDermott, President and CEO, iCoreConnect From the Fall 2022 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association While it may be cliche, the adage “time is money” is one of the reasons why so many dental practices are looking at ways to increase efficiency. Often, workflow friction costs dentists and dental organizations money as office staff are tied up with administrative …
Study Reveals Losses to Manual and Insufficient Electronic Insurance Verification
By Robert McDermott From the Spring 2022 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association How much time does your staff spend manually completing insurance eligibility and benefit verifications? The 2021 CAQH Index[1] found that each manual verification takes a minimum of 12 minutes. The data for those 12 minutes only includes the time it takes to conduct the verification, not the additional …
Automatic Insurance Verifications
Vendor Spotlight: iCoreVerify Are you still spending time searching record-by-record to complete patient insurance verifications? If the answer is “yes, we’ve never been able to do anything fast with insurance,” it might be because your staff is calling insurance companies or running electronic checks one patient at a time. That adds up to 20+ hours a week of sitting on …
Some Surprising Non-Staff Options to Sidestep the Staffing Shortage
iCoreConnect offers a new insurance verification software for dentists. By Robert McDermott, President and CEO of iCoreConnect From the Winter 2022 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association The CDA recognizes the challenges that many dentists are facing due to the labor shortage. While we continue to work to increase the supply of dental assistants and hygienists through dental hygiene program development …