Insurance, Fraud & Prevention: Our Healthcare System's Flaws

We're back in this episode with part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Susan Maples! In this episode we're digging a little deeper into some of the topics we covered in the previous episode, plus exploring a couple new ones.

Join us as we talk about what truly motivates insurance companies and the ways it prevents them from truly caring for their patients. We also talk a little bit about insurance fraud and why some dental practices find themselves tempted to wheedle their way around their contracts and low reimbursements rates.

We dive a LOT deeper into why it's so important to get a comprehensive view of a person's dental health and how it correlates to other areas, from mouth bacteria levels to the results of a sleep study. Susan also shares how that full-body view allows for dental and medical professionals to better determine and advocate for the kinds of prevention a patient may need.

For practitioners, deciding to stop taking insurance is understandably a scary prospect. If you take one thing away from this episode, I hope it's that for dental/medical professionals like Susan who have the right setup to take the plunge, the risk can be worth it.

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