Nonfiction Book Award Status: Silver
Author Name: Dr. Christopher Phelps DMD, CMCT
Synopsis
Get more patients. After reading you will know: -How to break free from the 3 major tensions facing private practice -How to increase new ideal patient flow -How to market to the virtually untouched fee-for-service market -How to find the freedom and financial stability in your dental practice you never thought possible New patients are the life blood and catalyst for growth for any dental practice. Then why is it that when I talk to Dentists all over the country, the vast majority are having trouble finding and getting new patients in the door? To compensate, more and more Dentists are signing up with dental insurance plans in the hope that this will help bring in more new patients. The unfortunate part of this strategy is that corporate dental groups are leveraging their size and power in negotiating higher reimbursements for themselves while reimbursement rates for the solo practitioner keep getting less and less. What are we as a group to do? For my practice, the answer to this question led me to discover a nearly unlimited and untapped market of fee-for-service patients who want and value their dental health but have a significant hurdle to coming in to see a private practice doctor. That’s why I wrote this book. It identifies what that hurdle to getting these patients in the door is, as well as provides you a solution to the problem that over a two year period, allowed me to add over $1,400,000 in revenue to my practice. It helped get me out of the dental insurance business and I know it can do the same for you!
Author Bio:
Christopher Phelps, DMD, CMCT works with professionals across the country in identifying their marketing hurdles and showing them how to succeed and grow in an otherwise tough, competitive economy. An entrepreneur and Amazon bestselling author, Chris is also a general dentist practicing in Charlotte NC. In his first seven years of practice Chris grew his practice revenue by a factor of 10X: growing from one practice location to four. After selling two of those offices for profit, Chris focused on maximizing the capacity of his remaining two practices and enjoyed two consecutive years of $1,000,000 revenue growth in each of the two practices, effectively collecting with two offices what he had collected when he owned four.
Chris writes frequently for industry publications such as Dental Economics, Dental Practice Management, Dental Products Report, Dentistry IQ ad Remin Media. He is the author of How to Grow Your Dental Membership Plan and has also published a CE article in Contemporary Esthetics Magazine.Chris was awarded the Doctor’s Choice National Dental Award in 2016 (from 6,000 nominated dentists). Additionally, he was chosen for the 2016 Doctor’s Choice Top 100, due to a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
