The CDA expanded its team in May 2022 to include Mario Chavez. He will serve as the CDA’s Digital Strategy Director. In this role he will enhance the association’s marketing of member benefits, increase online presence and expand communications. Mario’s career started in newspaper and magazine print journalism as a freelancer and staff writer/editor for several Latino publications, monthly …
What To Do When Someone Dies and Decreasing Stress on Your Loved Ones
By Brandon Rains, J.D. From the Spring 2022 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association The last two years have highlighted how fragile life can be. Of course, COVID is not the only dynamic over this time, and each of us has dealt with unique hardships regardless of how connected they are to COVID. While the topic is grim, it is far …
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 …
I Am Not Throwing Away My Shot
By Carrie Mauterer, D.D.S., CDA Editor From the Spring 2022 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association One of the things I missed the most during COVID lockdowns and restrictions was the theater. A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend “Hamilton” as it rolled through Denver (with a ticket won in the lottery back in 2019)! …
Do You Know How to Prevent Financial Fraud in Your Dental Practice?
By Phil Nieto From the Spring 2022 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association Embezzlement in the practice is something that most dentists prefer not to think about. Your team members often feel like an extension of your own family, and it can seem like a betrayal to consider that they could be capable of stealing from you. However, over the course …
Be A Giver
By H. Candace DeLapp, D.D.S., DPLTC Executive Director From the Spring 2022 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso Many of you knew Dr. Jerry Branes of Lamar, CO, and Dr. RJ Schultz of Pueblo, CO. Sadly, we lost both …
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 …
2022 Legislative Session: Dental Therapy Bill Likely
In an effort to keep members informed about the Colorado legislative session, the CDA wanted you to be aware of the likelihood of a dental therapy bill being introduced during this session. The draft of this bill, which is being proposed by a health advocacy group in Colorado, is still in progress and we do not have an exact date …
CE Requirements in Colorado for Dental Licensure in 2022
Colorado dentists must complete at least 30 hours of CE per licensure cycle to renew, reactivate or reinstate their licenses. This rule is for any dentist who holds an active dental license, including academic dentists. Retired and inactive licensees are exempt from this requirement. You will be required to attest to completion of continuing education (CE) credits during each license …
Member Benefit: ADA Third Party Payer Concierge Service
The American Dental Association restarted its Third Party Payer Concierge service in January 2022 after a year-long hiatus. The service, which assists dentists with insurance questions and concerns with third party payers, is for member dentists only and can be accessed by calling 1-800-621-8099 or emailing dentalbenefits@ada.org. “Many dentists cite dental insurance as the source of one of their greatest frustrations …