897: Metric Mondays: Diagnostic Percentage – Miranda Beeson

The Best Practices Show with Kirk Behrendt

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Are your patients just healthy, or are you underdiagnosing treatment? In this episode of Metric Mondays, Kirk Behrendt brings back Miranda Beeson, ACT’s director of education, to break down diagnostic percentage, why your numbers are low, and ways to start impacting this metric today. To learn how to be proactive in diagnosing care, listen to Episode 897 of The Best Practices Show!

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Main Takeaways:

Establish a baseline for what you consider healthy.
Talk to patients about the positive outcomes of treatment.
Understand what low and high diagnostic percentages indicate.
Leverage co-discovery and co-diagnosis. When patients see, they do.
Utilize technology such as Pearl AI as a way to offer a second opinion.

Snippets:

0:00 Introduction.

1:55 Diagnostic percentage, explained.

3:25 Selling is serving.

4:46 What low and high diagnostic percentages mean.

8:55 Establish a baseline for health.

11:26 Leverage co-discovery and co-diagnosis.

13:31 Use technology as a second opinion.

16:06 Talk to patients about the outcome of treatment.

18:11 More about ACT’s BPA and TTT.

Miranda Beeson, MS, BSDH Bio:

Miranda Beeson has over 25 years of clinical dental hygiene, front office, practice administration, and speaking experience. She is enthusiastic about communication and loves helping others find the power that words can bring to their patient interactions and practice dynamics. As a Lead Practice Coach, she is driven to create opportunities to find value in experiences and cultivate new approaches.

Miranda graduated from Old Dominion University, and enjoys spending time with her husband, Chuck, and her children, Trent, Mallory, and Cassidy. Family time is the best time, and is often spent on a golf course, a volleyball court, or spending the day boating at the beach.

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