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Not all patients have insurance to manage payment for their dental care. Many patients skip or delay their comprehensive dental care visits because they believe they can’t afford it without insurance. Offering in-house financing can ease patient worries about payment, so they schedule regular dentist visits. As a dentist, you know that regular and emergency...

No matter how carefully someone plans their spending, surprise medical bills can disrupt a budget. Unfortunately, the prospect of high costs can lead patients to delay necessary emergency care or avoid seeking care altogether. As a practitioner, this can be discouraging; you want to provide high-quality care while simultaneously growing your clinic’s revenue. Implementing patient...

For many years veterinarians offered in-house billing to clients.  When I started in practice, part of my job as a CSR was printing out the billed client accounts, sticking on stamps and stuffing envelopes.  We did this every 15 days and believe me it was a lot of work.  We then had to manually post...

Are you looking for ways to grow your patient base at your dental office? You may want to consider adding a few contests to your list of social media ideas. Contests can increase engagement with existing dental patients, improve retention, and bring new patients to your office. Even better, they don’t need to be too...

As a kid, I was taught to respect others’ privacy by not listening in on personal calls.  My grandmother’s home had what was called a “party line,” and several neighbors shared the same phone number. This was a common occurrence many years ago when you lived in rural areas with limited service. If you ever...

Developing a strong relationship with patients is a sometimes overlooked aspect of maintaining a successful healthcare practice. The rapport doctors and their team of professionals have with clients is often the determining factor in whether or not patients stick with a practice year after year. Establishing effective and personable communication with patients from the get-go...

While social distancing was a necessary measure for businesses responding to pandemic crises, it presented them with a number of difficulties. Among these difficulties is the task of maintaining a personal rapport with each client who visits your business. Even after social distancing requirements were lifted, your business likely has less time to spend with...

Healthcare professionals are as busy as they’ve ever been despite the chaotic events of recent pandemics. Though offices have endured temporary closures, infected staff and other unforeseen obstacles due to viruses, providers continue to do their best to improve the care they offer their patients. Weave recently commissioned an independent survey of 750 healthcare practices...

The social distancing, brought about by pandemics, has incentivized businesses to discover new ways to minimize the amount of human contact that goes on in their offices. These ways include having employees work from home, reducing the number of clients on site at a given time, and implementing curbside waiting rooms and wellness forms. As...

Cancellations are inevitable whether you work in a doctor’s office, vet clinic or a med spa. People often double book themselves or completely forget that they booked an appointment that day. But a new survey commissioned by Weave highlights the main drivers across patient cancellation behaviors. The survey, which was fielded May 11, 2022 to...

Scheduling patients strategically is an essential step in your healthcare practice’s success. Ideally, you want to fill every open slot in the day with paying patients. However, preventing no-shows and last-minute cancellations is challenging, and sometimes gaps in the appointment schedule are unavoidable. Thankfully, you can take a few steps to improve patient scheduling in...

As a dental office owner, you can capitalize on Facebook posts to attract new patients, retain existing patients, and improve your brand reputation. However, if you’re not a Facebook marketing expert, you may be unsure which dental social media posts to include on your page — and which to avoid. We’ve created this guide to...