Better Practice Solutions, LLC

Better Practice Solutions, LLC Tired of dental billing headaches? Better Practice Solutions offers white-glove RCM & billing services for dental practices.

Our US-based team handles claims, collections, and AR, so you can focus on patients! Better Practice Solutions helps growing dental practices throughout Westchester, Putnam, Nassau, Rockland and Dutchess counties that struggle to get their insurance claims processing optimized.

Boutique is not a smaller version of a billing company. It is a different arrangement.You know who is working your claim...
08/20/2026

Boutique is not a smaller version of a billing company. It is a different arrangement.

You know who is working your claims. You can ask a question and get an answer from the person who has actually seen your account, not from someone reading notes about it. When a payer changes something that affects you, you hear about it directly.

That is only possible with a select number of practices, which is why we work with solo and small group practices and intend to keep it that way.

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The math behind the squeeze, from the ADA's own data.Since January 2021, dental practice costs have climbed sharply — st...
08/18/2026

The math behind the squeeze, from the ADA's own data.

Since January 2021, dental practice costs have climbed sharply — staff wages, supplies, and equipment each up roughly 23%. General inflation over that period ran about 27%.

Average reimbursement across all payers rose about 19%.

That is a four-point gap against your own payroll and an eight-point gap against inflation, compounding for five years. The ADA also reports that dental premiums rose less than 1% between 2023 and 2024, which is part of why reimbursement has not moved — carriers are not under pressure to raise it.

The uncomfortable conclusion: the reimbursement rate itself is outside your control. What you can control is how much of what you have already earned actually gets collected — clean claims the first time, denials worked rather than written off, AR that does not age past the point of collection.

Not a satisfying answer, but it is the one that is actually available.

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Most practices know their denial rate. Fewer know their denial pattern.A rate tells you how often claims come back. A pa...
08/13/2026

Most practices know their denial rate. Fewer know their denial pattern.

A rate tells you how often claims come back. A pattern tells you which payer, which code, which missing element, and which staff workflow produced it. The second one is actionable; the first one is just a number that makes you uneasy.

Denial management is where we spend most of our time — identifying what is actually driving rejections, fixing the upstream cause, and appealing what should not have been denied in the first place.

We work with solo and small group practices, which means you talk to the person handling your claims, not an account queue.

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An Ohio dental practice agreed to pay $500,000 as part of the Department of Justice's 2026 National Health Care Fraud Ta...
08/11/2026

An Ohio dental practice agreed to pay $500,000 as part of the Department of Justice's 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown. It came down to one employee.

A dentist on staff had been excluded from Medicaid but kept treating Medicaid patients, with those services billed under the owner's provider credentials. Nobody inside the practice caught it. It surfaced only when the practice was sold and the new owner found the exclusion during the transition.

The exposure had been building the entire time.

Not sure what this means for your practice? Visit betterpracticesolutions.com to get in touch.

Delta Dental has notified practices that paper check processing fees begin in 2027 at roughly $15 per check.For an offic...
08/10/2026

Delta Dental has notified practices that paper check processing fees begin in 2027 at roughly $15 per check.

For an office receiving one check a week, that is about $780 a year. Other carriers are moving the same direction — adding similar fees or phasing out paper entirely. Some are steering practices toward third-party payment processors that take 1.9 to 3% of every payment instead. On $20,000 a month in reimbursements, that runs $4,500 to $7,200 a year, usually more than the fee it was meant to avoid.

Enrolling in EFT directly with your payers avoids both. We handle enrollment as a standalone service — you do not need to be a billing client.

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It is not your imagination.In a survey of dental billing professionals, 78% reported an increase in claim denials or pay...
08/06/2026

It is not your imagination.

In a survey of dental billing professionals, 78% reported an increase in claim denials or payer scrutiny over the past year. In the same survey, 71% named insurance verification as their most significant challenge.

Those two findings are connected. Tighter payer review narrows the margin for a verification gap — coverage confirmed once at scheduling is coverage that may have changed by the appointment date.

If denials are up and nothing about how you bill has changed, the shift is on the payer's side.

Book a free 15-minute RCM review at betterpracticesolutions.com

You may be participating in a federal program without knowing it.Medicare Advantage plans are offered by private compani...
08/04/2026

You may be participating in a federal program without knowing it.

Medicare Advantage plans are offered by private companies that contract with Medicare. The plan carries a familiar commercial carrier's name, but it is Medicare — and federal rules follow it.

Practices are often brought into a carrier's Medicare Advantage network through their existing contract. Some carriers send an opt-out notice by letter or addendum; unanswered, it can result in default enrollment.

If you have never specifically checked which networks your contracts include, that is worth an hour of someone's time this month.

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July brought more evidence that the enforcement environment is not slowing down. Provider exclusion lists are growing, A...
07/30/2026

July brought more evidence that the enforcement environment is not slowing down. Provider exclusion lists are growing, AI-assisted audit tools are operational, and fee schedule scrutiny is increasing. None of this is reason to panic — but it is reason to make sure your systems are solid. Verification protocols, documentation standards, and claim review processes that were good enough two years ago may not be today. If you want a clear picture of where your practice stands, a free 15-minute RCM review is a straightforward place to start. Visit betterpracticesolutions.com to learn more about dental revenue cycle management.

Clinical documentation standards have tightened, and the notes that supported a claim a couple of years ago may not hold...
07/28/2026

Clinical documentation standards have tightened, and the notes that supported a claim a couple of years ago may not hold up under today's review. Payer and federal audit tools are getting more sophisticated, which means the medical necessity behind a code needs to be clearly written into the chart — not assumed. This is worth revisiting regularly, not just once. If your clinical notes have not been reviewed against current documentation standards recently, now is a good time.
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August's Monthly RCM Briefing drops on the 1st. Subscribers get it first — before it is referenced anywhere on social me...
07/23/2026

August's Monthly RCM Briefing drops on the 1st. Subscribers get it first — before it is referenced anywhere on social media. If you have been thinking about subscribing, now is the time. The free monthly briefing covers the payer updates, billing changes, and compliance developments that affect your practice. Subscribe before the 1st at betterpracticesolutions.com/newsletter

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