Register for the Second Annual

Dental and Medical Insurance Extravaganza
for the Modern Wellness Practice

October 17th and 18th, 2019
Palms Casino Resort
Las Vegas

Exclusive Two-Day Hygiene Track
Presented by Janet Press, RDH

This program will address the consultative approach of taking our patients down the path of discovery into new treatment discussions that meet the challenges of implementing these required Classifications/diagnostic changes in your practice. Learn communication strategies directed at the patient creating a total “value” proposition making it easier for the dental provider to discuss and for the patient to accept treatment that will increase production and profitability through your hygiene department.

Enjoy sessions from dynamic speakers and companies. With topics ranging from Billing, Insurance, Marketing, and Medicare... Earning your CE has never been so much fun. From round table discussions to getting your specific questions answered one-on-one.

Course Overview & Speakers

CSI: Finding the Clues That You Need To Successfully Bill Medical Insurance

When you begin your journey of billing from Dental to Medical, you have to learn to think like an Investigator. You are telling a story and notating on behalf of the Patient. In this insightful course, Christine Taxin will teach you the basics of how to document, what to notate, and how to successfully being to bill your first claim.

So bring your favorite magnifying glass along to Vegas... because this Fall, YOU are putting on your sleuthing hat to learn how to be the next Sherlock Holmes of Medical Billing.

Christine Taxin

Dude, Do You Even Document? ‘Cuz That Looks Like Texting

Text messaging has become the number one communication tool used in the world. We no longer write notes, send letters, or use paper charts. We use text messages.

Let’s learn how to text message chart notes that become your letter of medical necessity.

Learn what must be in your documentation. Together we will figure out who on your team can start the process and why it’s so important. Learn how to give each patient's chart notes the individual attention it deserves, but with less work and higher results.

- Christine Taxin

Have You Ever Wondered How You and Your Team Could Have Fun While Increasing Overall Profit?

A fun course on how to properly document in today's fast-paced world.

Lois Banta is CEO, President and Founder of Banta Consulting, Inc., a company that specializes in all aspects of dental practice management. Lois has over 45 years of dental experience and consults and speaks nationally and internationally. She is the owner and CEO of The Speaking Consulting Network, and a member of several professional organizations.

- Lois Banta, Keynote

- Jan Palmer

This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Medicare

Medicare started as a socialized medical plan concept in 1912 by Teddy Rosevelt. It started in 1965 with basic hospital and doctor office visits. Did you know it was never actually a part of dental {and most of the dental world is part of Medicare!

Learn the types of Medicare coverage the baby boomers asked for so you can choose to work with the latest group of patients that you are not targeting. Because the Medicare of today... simply ain't your Grandma's Medicare she knew.

- Christine Taxin & Jan Palmer

- Teresa Duncan

Dental Hygiene Practice Expansion

This program is designed specifically for your Hygiene Team to learn the structure of the “New” American Academy of Periodontology Classification System that confronts our professional responsibility for medical risk, diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of Gingivitis, Periodontitis, and Implantitis in support of the Periodontal Medical Model (oral systemic link). This program will address the consultative approach of taking our patients down the path of discovery into new treatment discussions that meet the challenges of implementing these required Classifications/diagnostic changes in your practice. Learn communication strategies directed at the patient creating a total “value” proposition making it easier for the dental provider to discuss and for the patient to accept treatment that will increase production and profitability through your hygiene department.

- Janet Press

Should It Stay or Should It Go? Dental Records

The patient’s dental record is a vital and living history that recaps more than just the patient’s dental oral health presentation and medical history. It also provides a legal record of how the practice has managed the provision of care to each patient.

- What belongs in a dental record and which business records need to be kept
- How to document informed consent/informed refusal; how to handle records requests
- Understand proper record destruction