{"id":721,"date":"2015-06-18T16:39:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadvancedpracticemanagement.webaloo.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2015-12-18T16:56:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:56:38","slug":"dental-dow-jones-1st-quarter-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/dental-dow-jones-1st-quarter-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dental Dow Jones \u2013 1st Quarter 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2015 OFF TO A GOOD START!<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-723 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/first-quarter-graph-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dental dow first quarter is up\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/first-quarter-graph-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/first-quarter-graph-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/first-quarter-graph-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For the mature area practices sampled,\u00a0practice production was up 6.1% and\u00a0collections were up 6.7% compared to\u00a0the first quarter of 2014. This is the\u00a0most growth in these indices since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Patient flow was up 5.1% with new patients up over\u00a010%. Again, the most significant jump in patient\u00a0flow we\u2019ve seen in years.<\/p>\n<p>One quarter doesn\u2019t a year make but this is\u00a0certainly good news. It\u2019s also nice to see that\u00a0downtime in the Doctors\u2019 schedules is down 11%\u00a0and in the hygiene schedules down 6.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 OFF TO A GOOD START! For the mature area practices sampled,\u00a0practice production was up 6.1% and\u00a0collections were up 6.7% compared to\u00a0the first quarter of 2014. This is the\u00a0most growth in these indices since 2004. Patient flow was up 5.1% with new patients up over\u00a010%. Again, the most significant jump in patient\u00a0flow we\u2019ve seen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,58,4,27],"tags":[59,56],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin-articles","category-dental-dow-jones","category-dental-practice-management","category-the-dental-dow","tag-dental-dow-jones","tag-dental-practice-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}