PPO Advisors - Dental Demographic Study

⚠️ The insurance contracts you sign stay with you for years. Pick them carefully.

Dental Demographic Study

Know Which Insurance Plans to Join. Before You Sign Anything.

Most dentists pick their plans by guessing or by copying the office down the street. Then they get stuck for years in plans that pay too little and send too few patients. We study your area first. We find out which plans the big employers near you offer, and which plans other dentists near you already take. Then we tell you which plans to join and which ones to skip. The result: chairs filled with patients from plans that pay you well.

  • Opening a new practice? The study is included in our Start Up package at no extra cost.
  • Fee for service practice thinking about going in network? Get the study for $750 and decide with real data.
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12,000+
Applications Filed
2,870+
Practices Served
$37.3M
Revenue Increased
For Startups and Fee For Service Practices

The Demographic Study

Find the plans worth joining in your area, in 10 days
  • Up to 25 local employers researched and verified
  • National insurance networks checked for dentist counts near you
  • The most common networks in your area, identified
  • Bonus: Plan Strategy Session ($250 value)
$750
Included at no extra cost in the Start Up package
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What Picking the Wrong Plan Costs You

Joining a plan is easy. Being stuck in the wrong one is not. Here is what one bad choice looks like.

Wasted paperwork
2-4 months
of forms and follow-up calls for a plan that never sends you patients
Lost income
30-40%
cut off your fees on every patient from a low-paying plan you did not need to join
Stuck in the contract
Years
because leaving a plan later means losing the patients who came through it

Real numbers: a practice collecting $600,000 a year joins one wrong plan. That plan sends 15% of the patients and cuts fees by 35%. That is about $30,000 a year given away. Every year, for as long as the contract runs. The study that would have caught it costs $750. Once.

Made for Two Kinds of Practices

Different situations, same big question: which plans are worth joining?

Startup Practices

Open with the right plans from day one

You are about to sign more contracts in one month than most dentists sign in ten years. Without data, every one of them is a guess.

  • Start with the plans people in your area actually have
  • Skip the low-paying plans before you waste any time on their paperwork
  • The study is included in our Start Up package at no extra cost
Fee For Service Practices

Thinking about going in network? Do it your way

You stayed out of networks for good reasons. If empty chairs are making you think again, the answer is not joining everything. It is joining the two or three plans that will actually bring you patients.

  • See which plans are most common in your area before you commit to any of them
  • Fill chairs without giving away your fees
  • Thinking of dropping a plan? Check the data first

What's Inside Your Study

A 15+ page report built around your practice location, with every number verified and sourced, plus a call where we go through it with you.

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Local Employer Research

We research up to 25 sizable employers near you and confirm which dental plan each one offers. Confirmed from official documents, not guessed.

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Network Thickness Check

We check the national insurance networks and record how many dentists are already in network at 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 miles from your door. You see where the networks are thin and where they are crowded.

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Your Market, Mapped

Every competing practice within 10 miles, mapped and measured. Plus how many people live in your area, how many have coverage, and how many dental visits happen each year.

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The Networks That Matter Here

We identify which insurance networks are most common in your area, based on what local employers offer and how saturated each network already is. You see where the real opportunity sits before you commit to anything.

How It Works

1

Tell Us Where You Are

We set up your study around your practice zip code and the area around it. That is all we need from you.

2

We Study Your Area

Our team checks the local employers and the nearby practices. Your full report is ready in 7 to 10 days.

3

We Explain It to You

You get the 15+ page report plus the Plan Strategy Session, where we go through the findings and what to do next.

This Is Not a Location Report

Other demographic reports tell you WHERE to open. Ours tells you WHICH plans to join. And we can do the credentialing work for you once you know.

What you get
Location report companies
PPO Advisors
The question it answers
Where should I open?
Which plans should I join?
Identifies the prevalent networks in your area
No
✓ Yes, with guidance on each
Can do the credentialing work for you
No, report only
✓ 12,000+ applications filed

What a Real Study Found

From a recent study for a family practice in a small North Carolina town. Names removed, numbers real.

41%
of employees at the area's large employers were covered by one single carrier
Only 25
dentists were in that carrier's network within 10 miles of the practice

Four out of ten insured workers in the area, and almost no dentists in network to see them. That one finding told the practice exactly which network to join first. Without the study, that gap is invisible. The carrier does not advertise it, and no location report measures it. The study also found that nine of the eleven competing practices sat within 1.1 miles of each other, leaving whole corridors of the county underserved. That is what $750 of research looks like.

Two Ways to Get Your Study

Either way, you stop guessing. One way, the study costs you nothing.

Option 1

The Study on Its Own

Get the full study and the call. Then use the findings however you want.

  • Up to 25 local employers researched and verified
  • Dentist counts across the national insurance networks near you
  • Every competing practice mapped and measured
  • The most common networks in your area, identified, in a 15+ page report
  • Bonus: Plan Strategy Session ($250 value)
$3,250+ to do it yourself
$750
One time. The report is yours to keep.
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The report is yours to keep. Every number in it is verified and sourced, so you can hand it to your partners, your accountant, or your lender and defend the decision. Whatever you choose to do next, the research does not expire.

⚠️ Spots are limited each month. Every study is done personally by our team, not outsourced.

What Our Clients Say

★★★★★
"Working with PPO Advisors has been worth every dollar and more. They take the headache out of understanding your options for credentialing and participation."
Dr. Corey
Little Smiles of Washington
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"Each time we find it advantageous to our bottom line. Higher reimbursement rate and more new patients."
David, Office Manager
Anamosa Dental Associates
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"Their analysis is thorough. PPO Advisors helped us maximize our reimbursement. I will work with them for years to come."
Dr. Bryan
Children's Dentistry of Manatee
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Shelley DeGroff

Founder & CEO, PPO Advisors

Started in a dental office in 2005. By 2008, figured out how to renegotiate PPO contracts and watched revenue grow. Founded PPO Advisors in 2013. Since then: 12,000+ credentialing applications, 2,870+ practices, $37.3M in increased revenue. Her team has 110+ years of combined dental industry experience.

Common Questions

How is this different from other demographic reports?
Most demographic reports answer one question: where should I open a practice? They look at population, income, and how many dentists are in the area. Our study answers a different question: which insurance plans should you join? We research up to 25 employers near you and confirm which plan each one offers from official documents. We check the national insurance networks and count how many dentists are already in each one at 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 miles from your door. We map every competing practice. Then we show you which networks are most common in your area and what that means for you. No location report does any of that. And since credentialing is what we do every day, we can also do the work after you pick your plans.
How long does the study take? +
7 to 10 days from the time we start. You get the full report, and then our team goes over the findings with you on a call so you can ask questions and decide what to do next.
Why is it $750 on its own but included with credentialing? +
Because the study is step one of the work we already do. When we handle your credentialing, we study your market first anyway. That is how we make sure every form we file is worth filing. If you only want the research, $750 covers the hours our team spends checking your local employers, checking nearby practices, and going over the findings with you.
I run a fee for service practice. Won't joining networks just cut my fees? +
It will if you join blindly. The practices that regret going in network usually joined too many plans, or the wrong ones. The study exists to stop exactly that. Often the right answer is joining just two or three plans that local employers actually pay for, and skipping the rest. Sometimes the data says stay out. Either way, you decide with facts.
I'm already in network. Can the study help me? +
Yes, in two ways. It can show you if a plan you want to drop is actually worth keeping, and it can show you plans in your area you should add. If your bigger problem is what your current contracts pay you, ask us about the Risk-Free PPO Profit Analysis instead. That is our deep review of the contracts and fee schedules you already have.
What do you need from me to start? +
Your practice location (or the location you plan to open at) and the area you want studied. That is it. Our team does the rest and comes back with your full report and a call within 7 to 10 days.
Is this included in the Start Up package? +
Yes. Every startup practice we work with gets the Demographic Study at no extra cost as part of the Start Up package. You open with plans picked from real market data, not guesses.
⏳ The contracts you sign this year decide what you earn for the next five

Stop Signing Contracts Blind

Get the Demographic Study. In 7 to 10 days you will know which plans to join, which ones to skip, and what to do next.

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