Greg Wappett
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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So managing HR benefits, managing the accounting side of things, managing insurance contract negotiations, uh, how do we consolidate supply supply.
Spending and lab spending so that we're able to, you know, try to minimize our expenses on those things a little bit.
Those definitely happen all day long.
And we don't really get much pushback on things like that.
But people take that thought process to the next level of, well, it are you going to try to cut costs all across the board?
Like my hygiene program is really strong, but I've paid my hygienists really well.
We're not going to mess with that.
And if we do, that it's going to be a conversation.
conversation if there's a reason to change it, it's gonna be a conversation that we have with the lead dentist at the office and the office manager because we're not like a it's not a cookie cutter approach.
Every practice is different.
You know, I I had one the other day that told me that it was a broker that told me that they wouldn't they refuse to show me a listing of theirs because their seller believes that a DSO is just going to come in and make them take all sorts of insurances
stuff two new associates down their throat, minimize their personal chair time, and they don't want that.
They they they believe that they're a fee for service practice and they're a high-end practice and they don't think that they can partner with us.
We have multiple fee for service practices and we've never looked to change them.
Um, you know, everything's kind of a little unique and we take that approach.
There are some certain areas that are a little bit more, you know, kind of rigid in what we need to
I think the the biggest change that happens in an affiliation process, at least within our organization, is we do we do switch over the practice management system from whatever they're on to what we utilize across the organization.
And that's more from a business intelligence and business management perspective.
You can't have a hundred different practice management systems operating under one umbrella and hope that some sort of IT patch is going to be able to give you the information consistently that you need to oversee the organization, the business, and be able to more importantly bring that information back to the offices and the leaders so that they can utilize that information accordingly.
So I think there's a lot of misconception about
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