{"id":812,"date":"2016-08-01T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T21:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadvancedpracticemanagement.webaloo.com\/?p=812"},"modified":"2016-08-01T21:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T21:02:40","slug":"growth-continues-the-second-quarter-2016-dental-dow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/growth-continues-the-second-quarter-2016-dental-dow\/","title":{"rendered":"GROWTH CONTINUES\u2014THE SECOND QUARTER 2016 DENTAL DOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing the first half this year to\u00a0the first half of 2015 for the mature\u00a0area practices sampled, we find that\u00a0practice production is up by 5.8% and\u00a0collections are up by 5.2%, which is slightly off the\u00a0first quarter\u2019s pace of about 6% for production and\u00a0collections.<\/p>\n<p>Total patient flow is up 3%. New patients are up\u00a0just 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Open time in the hygiene schedules remained\u00a0steady, but Doctor open time increased 15% giving\u00a0up some of the gains that we experienced last year\u00a0with reduced Doctor time.<\/p>\n<p>Total production per exam is up 2.5% and crown\u00a0and bridge is up 3.3%.\u00a0Doctor Productivity remains the same at about $660\u00a0per hour.<\/p>\n<p>So far, this makes about two years in a row of gains\u00a0similar to those \u201cpre-recession\u201d. So, most dental\u00a0practices aren\u2019t confronted with an economic\u00a0headwind against practice growth but no smart\u00a0practitioner is complacent about practice vitality.<\/p>\n<p>No one gets a gimme!<\/p>\n<h2>DO YOU THINK IT\u2019S TRUE THAT?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeping the schedules full affects collections?<\/li>\n<li>What your clinical team says to patients\u00a0regarding insurance affects collections?<\/li>\n<li>Communication between front and back affects\u00a0collections? Hint: Almost every practice loses\u00a0thousands of dollars per week because of that\u00a0gap.<\/li>\n<li>Treatment staff can reduce changes in the\u00a0schedule and does that affect collections?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing the first half this year to\u00a0the first half of 2015 for the mature\u00a0area practices sampled, we find that\u00a0practice production is up by 5.8% and\u00a0collections are up by 5.2%, which is slightly off the\u00a0first quarter\u2019s pace of about 6% for production and\u00a0collections. Total patient flow is up 3%. New patients are up\u00a0just 1%. Open time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apm-news","category-bulletin-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}