Deep dives on dental PPO networks, silent leakage, UCR benchmarking, and DSO contracting strategy.
Discover the critical differences in network leasing between Delta Dental and MetLife PDP, and how these impact your dental practice's revenue.
Discover how dental service organizations (DSOs) are utilizing rate benchmarking to enhance negotiations with PPO networks, resulting in better reimbursement rates and improved financial health.
Explore the hidden costs and implications of participating in umbrella networks for dental practices, and discover actionable strategies to optimize your payor relationships.
Discover effective fee schedule negotiation strategies for 2026 using real rate data. Learn how to leverage PPO leasing, rate variation, and network stacking to optimize your dental practice's revenue
Learn how to identify silent PPO leasing on your EOBs with this step-by-step guide. Discover tools and insights to protect your practice revenue.
Inside the PayorMap database: how we track umbrella PPO relationships, leasing arrangements, and repricing chains across every major dental payor.
Hard numbers on PPO leakage, underpayment rates, and network stacking — what the data shows about where dental groups are losing revenue.
A step-by-step audit framework for DSO finance and contracting teams to identify leakage, benchmark fees, and recover revenue from PPO underpayments.
PayorMap founding membership gives DSOs and dental groups full network intelligence before the public launch. Here's what's included.
The carrier on your patient's insurance card and the carrier adjudicating your claim are often two different entities — with two different fee schedules. Here's why that matters.
The DOJ's antitrust case against OhioHealth is about opaque, anti-competitive network contracts. Dental DSOs live the same dynamic from the other side.
Ensemble's 2025 Payer Trendscape shows MA final denial rates nearly double commercial. The same payers creating clinical denial pressure are the ones running umbrella PPO networks that quietly reprice
Which plans route through Zelis? Careington? DenteMax? We mapped every major umbrella PPO network relationship in dental so you don't have to dig through contracts to find out.
Most dental groups have a leased network problem and don't know it. Here's exactly how silent PPO repricing works — and how to find out if it's happening to you.
A fee schedule that hasn't been benchmarked in 3 years is probably leaving six figures on the table. Here's the math and how to find every gap in your CDT codes.
Most practices sign PPO contracts without asking the questions that determine actual reimbursement. Here are the three that matter most — and what to listen for.
You agreed to Aetna's fee schedule. You got paid at Careington's rates. This is legal, common, and almost never disclosed. Here's how network stacking works.