Most dental practice owners lack the financial visibility to manage production per provider, track fee schedule realization, and separate hygiene contribution from doctor-dependent revenue. Fractional CFO services deliver monthly oversight of collection rate, hygiene utilization, and provider-level economics so you build a defensible, exit-ready practice.
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Most dental practice owners lack the financial visibility to manage production per provider, track fee schedule realization, and separate hygiene contribution from doctor-dependent revenue. Fractional CFO services deliver monthly oversight of collection rate, hygiene utilization, and provider-level economics so you build a defensible, exit-ready practice.
Dental practice owners typically cannot report production per provider, collection rate sits below industry benchmarks, and hygiene utilization remains unmeasured. Many practices run on fee-for-service and PPO blends without tracking fee schedule realization against actual reimbursement, leaving margin on the table every month. Compensation structures ignore tax efficiency, and clinical production remains owner-dependent. Without senior financial leadership, the practice cannot distinguish write-offs from uncollected production, calibrate hygiene performance, or present clean economics to DSO buyers who require transferable patient bases and documented SOPs.
Monthly production and collection reporting by provider, payer class, and procedure code to isolate hygiene contribution and track fee schedule realization
Quarterly overhead analysis benchmarked to dental industry standards with specific recommendations for hygiene utilization, associate compensation, and supply cost containment
Provider-level profitability modeling to measure production per provider, identify owner-dependent revenue, and guide associate hiring or compensation adjustments
Tax-efficient compensation structuring to calibrate W-2 salary, S-corp distributions, and retirement plan contributions around adjusted EBITDA
Collection rate tracking by payer and aging analysis to reduce uncollected production and quantify write-offs separate from contractual adjustments
Fee schedule realization analysis to compare billed fees against reimbursement and identify PPO contracts that compress margin
DSO buyers and private practice acquirers pay 5 to 8x adjusted EBITDA for solo practices or add-ons, with regional platforms commanding 9 to 11x and practices generating over $5 million in EBITDA reaching 10 to 12x plus. Exit readiness for dental means transferable patient base, documented clinical SOPs, hygiene production independent of the owner, and clean production and collection reporting. Fractional CFO services build the monthly financial discipline that separates owner-dependent revenue from associate production, tracks collection rate by payer, and documents the economics buyers require to justify higher multiples.
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We track collection rate by payer and aging bucket, isolating write-offs that result from fee schedule discounts versus billing errors, patient nonpayment, or payer delays. This lets you quantify true uncollected production and target specific workflows, payer contracts, or patient payment policies that compress cash flow.
Fee schedule realization compares your billed fees to actual reimbursement by payer. Many dental practices accept PPO contracts without tracking how much margin each payer compresses. We quantify realization by contract and procedure code, then model the financial impact of renegotiating or dropping low-realization payers.
We pull production data by provider and procedure code, isolate hygiene revenue, and compare it to scheduled hygiene capacity. This reveals open blocks, underutilized hygiene days, and whether hygiene production per hour meets benchmarks. Most practices discover they have hygiene capacity that could generate six figures in additional annual revenue.
Yes. We model production per provider, measure associate contribution against owner clinical production, and structure compensation as a percent of collections or daily rate. This creates financial transparency for associates, reduces owner-dependent revenue, and makes the practice more transferable to DSO buyers or private acquirers who require diversified production.
A bookkeeper records transactions. A controller manages accounting close and compliance. A fractional CFO interprets production and collection data, models provider-level profitability, calibrates compensation for tax efficiency, tracks fee schedule realization, and builds the financial reporting that DSO buyers and lenders require. We operate as part of your leadership team, not as back-office support.
Dental practices lose margin between production and collection, not between revenue and expense.
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See advisory angleThe Keystone Value Creation Assessment™ audits your last 12 to 36 months and gives you a written summary whether you engage us or not. If there is not a clear opportunity to create value, we will tell you directly.