Securing your patients’ dental records can be difficult, especially with cyber attacks on the rise. Maintaining your dental practice HIPAA-compliant can help lower the risk of lawsuits against your practice. It may also help you avoid significant fines and other penalties while giving your patients a sense that you are keeping...
Category: Dental Law
Best Compliance Practices for Dental Providers
Dental providers must remain compliant with labor laws, privacy laws, and health and safety laws. Noncompliance can cause a number of headaches for practices and they are easily preventable when there are sound systems in place. Here, we will go through some of the best compliances practices you should consider adopting if...
What Business Entity Works for Your Dental Practice?
A dental practice is, after all, a business. As such, there are critical business decisions that will need to be made, many of which will need to be made at the practice’s formation. From inception, there will be choices you will need to make that will have powerful implications for how the...
Developing a Solid Dental Practice Business Plan
To help set your dental practice up for success, having a business plan can be critical. You may be starting your dental practice from scratch or you may be buying an existing practice. While considerations for these scenarios may vary slightly, the fact remains that you should have solid dental practice...
Writing Effective Standard Operating Procedures for Your Dental Practice
Standard operating procedures are critical to help ensure your dental practice runs smoothly, safely, and efficiently. These are documents that should provide explicit, detailed directions on how certain tasks should be completed every time. Not only can strong standard operating procedures help foster healthy communication in your dental practice, but they can...
Dental Practice Administrative Complaints
Patients may sometimes choose to file a complaint with the dental board should they believe that their dentist failed to adhere to standards of the profession. Regardless of whether there is merit to the complaint, dental board complaints can be both costly and time consuming. When a dental board launches an investigation,...
Why You Need a Written Lease
Get it in writing. You have likely heard this phrase at some point in time and it should resonate with you in many aspects of running your dental practice. For instance, if you are leasing a space for your practice, you should seriously consider getting a written lease. While verbal, handshake agreements...
What Questions Should You Be Asking Prospective Dental Practice Associates?
Are you looking to bring another associate into your dental practice? It can be an exciting time as you look to grow your practice and bring in fresh talent. Hiring a dental practice associate can also be, however, a particularly arduous task. The long slog through resume piles and the narrowing down...
