Finance

As a Fortune Management Coach, Adrienne MacKenzie brings almost 15 years of dental experience to the team. She worked in administrative, marketing and leadership roles and learned first-hand what it takes to run a successful practice. She looks forward to assisting teams develop growth strategies, achievable long term goals and supporting dental practices' visions, missions and core values. Adrienne loves helping dental practices of all sizes recharge, realize their potential and maximize each team member's strengths. As a certified DiSC trainer, she helps teams understand the power of behavioral styles to maximize efficiency, “people read” their patients and ultimately increase case acceptance.

Adrienne is proud to be a Pennsylvania State University graduate and has over 2 decades of experience in business development, marketing and public relations. Her unique background has provided her with greater insight to "people power." Companies do not thrive because of 1 person; they thrive because the right people are in place, feeling empowered and working towards the vision and mission of the company, living the core values each day.

Articles

Meet your team members where they are to really help them grow and transform. Life, after all, is really about connections, making a difference, being present, and supporting one another in our own unique journeys of transformation

Metamorphosis—Helping Our Dental Team Members Grow Their Wings 

Bruce Bryen is a certified public accountant with over 45 years of experience and is a part of Baratz & Associates CPAs. He specializes in deferred compensation, such as retirement planning design; income and estate tax planning; determination of the proper organizational business structure; asset protection and structuring loan packages for presentation to financial institutions. He is experienced in providing litigation support services to dentists with Valuation and Expert Witness testimony in matrimonial and partnership dispute cases. He is also a financial writer for several dental journals. You may contact him at 609-502-0691 or at 

Taking a look at DSO money versus OSO money and the long-term benefits and drawbacks of both. 

The Positives and Negatives of Joining a Dental or Orthodontic Service Organization

These charges from the SEC allege that dental start-up S-Ray and its CEO Stephen Baird raised $2 million from investors by making false claims of products and revenue. 

SEC Charges S-Ray Dental Ultrasound Start-Up for Fraudulence in Raising Money from Investors

Videos

Opy US Ceo & Global Chief Strategy Officer Brian Shniderman discusses how to make the payment process easier with Opy. 

Payment Processes Simplified with Opy

Benco Dental released a new white paper detailing how smaller operatory spaces can lead to a greater return on investment and increased income. 

Benco Dental Releases New Smaller Operatory Planning White Paper

Dentists going through divorce proceedings will face unique challenges in terms of practice valuations, but there are ways to navigate this tricky situation. 

For the Dental Professional: Before, During, and After Divorce from a Financial Standpoint

Randy Modos is the President and Co-Founder of PayJunction, a payment processor of choice for practice-based industries for over 20 years. PayJunction provides a modern end-to-end payment technology that is backed by a customer first approach to service and transparent pricing. The company processes $7 Billion in transaction volume annually and works with nearly 2,000 medical practices across the United States.

How to evaluate terms, rates, and fees (and identify unfair practices) to get the best experience for both your practice and the patients. 

5 Tips to Assess a Payment Provider’s Billing Practices for Your Dental Practice

Opy US CEO & Global Chief Strategy Officer

Brian is a 32-year veteran of the payments and fintech advisory industry. He joined Opy from Deloitte, where he founded and grew the firm’s globally top-ranked payments practice. He successfully helped the C-suite of large global companies implement high-visibility, complex payments, fintech and banking strategies, mergers and acquisitions, operations, and technology initiatives. These include large credit card issuers, merchant acquirers, networks, payments processors, corporates, governments, and merchants. Prior to Deloitte, Shniderman was an executive at several advisory firms, focusing on fintech and payments. In 2001, he was recognized as an innovator of the year by Fortune for introducing approaches for B2B equity-based payments, continuing to innovate and launch new fintech products since then.

Opy USA seeks to help break the age-old mold for patients and providers.

 Untethering Choice and Access in Dental Care Financing

Smylen has been recognized by way of the Innovation Award for its AirPay front office payment solution. 

Smylen Wins Innovation Award from Revere Partners at Yankee Dental Congress

Melissa LuVisi is Chief Strategy Officer at tab32, where she drives corporate strategy across all areas, including account management, sales, marketing, and R&D. She was previously VP of marketing/sales and head of business development, working to broker and strengthen relationships with some of the industry’s largest and fastest growing DSOs. Headshot attached below.

These 3 tips and insights will help dental service organizations and practice owners optimize their business for the future. 