COVID-19 Weekly Update (Friday, April 10th)

Our COVID-19 Dental Task Force will share COVID-19 updates weekly. For additional information or previous updates, please visit our website blog.   COVID-19 Dental Task Force Updates/Recommendations Each week, the task force will list a few financial and operational updates/recommendations for your consideration: Adding your Infection Control Protocol to your chart notes Include specific steps your practice is taking to minimize risk and maximize protections for everyone, things to include would be; infection control protocols your practice is utilizing and […] Read More...

Would Predictable Recurring Revenue Benefit Your Practice Right Now?

If you’re like most dentists across America, your practice revenue and personal income have been greatly affected in the last month. Maybe you can’t pay your rent or mortgage and perhaps you’ve temporarily laid-off most or all your employees. We’re relying on the federal government to provide our small businesses with assistance and grants but we’re not sure when it’s coming. We all know that recessions happen and now we’re painfully aware that a virus can devastate our businesses. Independent […] Read More...

April 3rd COVID-19 Webinar Recap

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the April 3rd webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/2521137687534916877 As mentioned during Friday’s webinar, this was the last one in the webinar series. Moving forward, we will send periodic updates via email. If you attended a webinar, you will automatically receive the emails. If you would like to sign-up for the mailing list, please go to: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/opdvIDS/COVID19  focused on HR questions. […] Read More...

COVID-19 PPE Recommendations

PPE & Safety Recommendations. There is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding sterilization, safety, and personal protective equipment requirements changes as a result of this pandemic. That said, we want to give those of you who are still seeing emergency patients some direction and recommendations. Please note that these are simply recommendations and do not constitute any official policy. Please reference the CDC, ADA, and other organizations as official policies are established. Firstly, the CDC has a great webpage that […] Read More...

Thursday, April 2nd COVID-19 TEAM Webinar

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the April 2nd webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/7392779041072899329 As mentioned during today’s webinar, this was the last team webinar. If you still have unanswered HR questions, please send them to [email protected]. If you have general questions, please send them to [email protected]. We will be transitioning to a periodic newsletter. If you registered for the webinar, then you are on our […] Read More...

Tuesday, March 31st COVID-19 Webinar Recap

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the March 31st webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/5584576094058009602 As mentioned during today’s webinar, this was the last one focused on HR questions. If you still have unanswered HR questions, please send them to [email protected]. During the webinar, we referenced several online resources for staying up-to-date on the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to the dental market, please see the list […] Read More...

March 27th COVID-19 Webinar Recap

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the March 27th webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/6385777022989445645 During the webinar, we referenced several online resources for staying up-to-date on the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to the dental market, please see the list of links below: Immediate Action Steps Recommendations (IMPORTANT) :https://independent-ds.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Task-Force-Checkist-from-3.27.20-Webinar.pdf  IDS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/independentdentalsolutions Recovery Plan: https://independent-ds.com/covid-19-recovery-plan/  SBA Economic Disaster Injury Loans Overview: https://independent-ds.com/sba-covid-19-economic-injury-disaster-loans/ SBA Website: https://www.sba.gov/page/coronavirus-covid-19-small-business-guidance-loan-resources […] Read More...

March 26th COVID-19 Dental Team Webinar Recap

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the March 26th Dental TEAM webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/6120105326883617549 If you found the content informative and would like to share the registration link with your friends and colleagues so they can join a webinar in the future, please use the link below: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7509760480977420555 During the webinar, we referenced several online resources for staying up-to-date on the COVID-19 pandemic as […] Read More...

Tuesday, March 24th COVID-19 Webinar Recap

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the March 24th webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/519705467366987789 During the webinar, we referenced several online resources for staying up-to-date on the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to the dental market, please see the list of links below: IDS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/independentdentalsolutions COVID-19 FAQs: https://www.claconnect.com/resources/articles/2020/faqs-regarding-covid-19-and-human-capital-tax-impact Recovery Plan: https://independent-ds.com/covid-19-recovery-plan/  N95 Fitting Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05wyH1-mLGk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1fH-3_aCE92Hcu0KdMnOhpyZIsc2IHz_79r5VnKpPzfXCcUCROItch_-Q SBA Economic Disaster Injury Loans Overview: https://independent-ds.com/sba-covid-19-economic-injury-disaster-loans/ SBA Website: […] Read More...

SBA COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans

The U.S. Small Business Administration published the following to help small business owners understand their Economic Injury Disaster Loan options. Please click on the link below to learn more! SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Overview Read More...

COVID-19 Dental Team Webinar Series

Introducing the COVID-19 Dental Team Webinar Series The COVID-19 Dental Task Force has been fielding questions from dentists on how to best communicate the ever changing nature of this pandemic with their teams. In order to support you and your team, we are establishing a webinar series solely focused on what the COVID-19 pandemic means for your team as individuals. The focus of this webinar series is to help your dental team with insight and understanding of what all these changes mean and […] Read More...

March 20th – COVID-19 Dental Task Force Webinar Recap

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the March 20th webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/2718993705131873027 During the webinar, we referenced several online resources for staying up-to-date on the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to the dental market, please see the list of links below: IDS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/independentdentalsolutions Recovery Plan: https://independent-ds.com/covid-19-recovery-plan/  ADA COVID-19 Page: ADA.org/virus CDC COVID-19 Webpage: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html  CLA COVID-19 Information: https://www.claconnect.com/topics/coronavirus#Resources CMS recommendations (not a […] Read More...

COVID-19 Recovery Plan

During this trying time, it can be extremely isolating as an independent private practitioner. There is so much information and data out there, but what is applicable to your practice. Therefore, in addition to the dental task force, we developed the following general contingency and recovery plan that provides step-by-step recommendations during your closure to make sure you have a successful recovery plan in place: RECOVERY PLAN Additionally, if you need more assistance and/or have questions about the plan, we […] Read More...

COVID-19 Update & Dental Task Force

With the current pandemic sweeping the nation, it is time for solidarity within the dental market! IDS is setting up a COVID – 19 task force to help dentists create a contingency and recovery plan as we enter these unpredictable times. The focus of the task force is to gather information and insight in several areas to help dentists make good business decisions to maintain the sustainability and success of their practice. We have identified leaders and companies that will […] Read More...

CLAs Dental Survey Results (Wages, Benefits, & Fee Analysis)

At the beginning of this year, we sent out a request to fill out our professional services provider’s, CLA, Dental Survey. This survey provides private practitioners with insights on employee wages and benefits, fee schedules, and much more in order to help them determine if changes are needed within their practice. We are happy to announce that the dental survey results are in! Please click on the link below to see the results: CLA DENTAL SURVEY RESULTS We will continue […] Read More...