3 Changes You Can Make in 2020 to Get Paid Faster

January 28, 2020 Leave a comment

The new decade has arrived and if you are like the rest of us, you likely have big goals and dreams for your practice in 2020. Running a dental practice, one of the biggest challenges you face is getting your patients to pay on time. When and how you ask for payments can have a huge impact on the likelihood of you getting paid quickly.

Join dental industry expert Kevin Henry in a conversation with payments expert Don Apgar, of Sphere, as they discuss strategies to encourage and enable patients to pay on time. Tactics will include when to ask for the payment, providing convenient payment methods, and best practices for tracking and reconciling payments in your practice management system. Start 2020 strong with these simple changes to help drive timely patient payments and improve your practice cash flow.

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Check out Sikka Payments at the Greater New York Dental Meeting [video]!

December 4, 2019 Leave a comment

Sikka Payments, by Sikka and Sphere, was launched at the GNYDM!

Sikka Payments is an easy to use app that gives your patients choices for when and how they pay, so you get paid faster. All payments are processed through a single easy-to-use interface. Unlike other payment applications, Sikka Payments posts all card and ACH payments automatically to your practice management system!

Check out this revolutionary product in this video from Kevin Henry.

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Sikka Software collaborates with Sphere to Launch Sikka Payments

December 2, 2019 Leave a comment

Patient-Centric Approach Redefines Payments Integration for Dentists

December 2, 2019, New York, NY– Sikka Software, a market leader in advancing retail healthcare connectivity, and Sphere, the leading provider of end-to-end integrated payments and security software, today announced the launch of a new payment platform, Sikka Payments, for dentists and their patients. This innovative platform is designed to equip patients with a pay-anywhere capability and automate the payment and reconciliation process for providers. The announcement came during the Greater New York Dental Meeting, a global event featuring some of the best new products and services for dental professionals.

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Productive Scheduling for the Profitable Dental Practice

November 26, 2019 Leave a comment

Working in the dental field is rewarding! There are endless opportunities to serve people and to change lives one smile at a time. But as a dental professional, you still have to be profitable.

Dentistry has one of the highest overheads in the health industry, and when you add the ever-growing contractual write-offs, profits can quickly dissipate. What if there were a way to increase production without drastically affecting overhead? This can easily be achieved by refocusing the way appointments are scheduled.

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5 Tips to Maximize Collections in Your Practice

November 15, 2019 Leave a comment

Dentistry has undeniably become an extremely complex business. Dentists need to be excellent practitioners and simultaneously be knowledgeable in marketing, human resources, social media, insurance, customer service, and so on.

In my experience advising dental practices, I have found that the most successful practices do not necessarily have dentists with the most advanced clinical acumen or professional designations, but rather those who take most seriously the responsibilities of business ownership.

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Sikka Software again wins Best in Health APIs from API World Awards, recognized for developer friendly platform

October 22, 2019 Leave a comment

October 22, 2019 – Sikka Software, the leading platform and marketplace for retail healthcare, was awarded Best in Health APIs from the 2019 API World Awards. This is the second time Sikka Software has won this recognition for the company’s work in the booming health API industry.

Sikka, with its One API, is enabling retail healthcare providers to accelerate their digital transformation and adopt new and innovative solutions that enable them to better manage their practices. Sikka’s secure platform cloud connects to over 90% of practice management systems and provides a single access point where partners can build their apps. There are now over 50 unique apps powered by Sikka’s One API including apps that help practitioners increase productivity, patient retention, profitability and more.

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Webinar: Fees, Profitability and Optimizing Your Practice

May 8, 2019 Leave a comment

Update your fees every six months to keep aligned with the cost of living, labs, salaries, procedure mixes, and geographical trends.

Join Vijay Sikka, CEO of Sikka Software, for a free webinar on Fees, Profitability and Optimizing your Practice (the best 45 minutes of your time to enhance practice profitability).

Watch the webinar recording here.

Or get started with a fee survey for dentists or vets. Surveys include data for up to three zip codes and will help you keep up-to-date with lab costs, salaries, what other professionals are charging and more!

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Podcast: Top 5 Statistics All Dentists Should Know

March 6, 2019 Leave a comment

Welcome back to the Sikka Software Podcast! Here at Sikka we are passionate about bringing you tools and solutions that benefit your patients and your practice.

Today, we’ll be giving you the breakdown of five key metrics that all dentists should know in order to make sure that their practice is maintaining profitability and serving all patients effectively. Utilizing these statistics will help practices run more efficiently and help providers better serve their patients.

Number One: No Shows to Appointments. If you’re getting a high amount of no shows relative to appointments, the problem may not be with the patient. A high amount of no shows means that a practice needs to look at their communication practices. We consider more than 1 in 100 appointments being no shows to be abnormal. Be sure to send reminder messages to your patients prior to their scheduled appointment times on a medium where they’re likely to see it.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Collections

February 27, 2019 Leave a comment

Have you developed a collections plan for your dental practice? It can be challenging to maintain relationships with your patients while still taking steps to collect payment. Resources and best practices can help you navigate these situations. 

Join Kevin Henry in an interview with Chris Morris from IC System as they discuss what you need to know about collections. They will cover topics like when to outsource your receivables, internal best practices and what questions to ask your collections agency. Don’t let your accounts receivable balance overwhelm you in 2019! This webinar will help you create an action plan. 

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Podcast: Patient Mobilizer

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Hi, welcome back to another episode of the Sikka Software podcast. Today we’re going to talk about using technology to enable closer doctor-patient relationships.

A strong doctor-patient relationship is crucial to ensuring positive health outcomes for your patients. A study by Health Services Research confirmed what common sense long suspected, that patients who feel that they have a strong relationship with their provider are more active in managing their own health. Psychology has long known that likability is a strong motivator in ensuring compliance. When patients like their providers, they are more likely to follow the provider’s advice and will have better health overall. Patients will also develop a sense of loyalty to their practice.

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